COLORE ARTISTS
ONJ
The Other Shore
September 2025 — A new direction for COLORE!
With L’Autre Rive, we open the first thematic chapter for 2026–27–28, exploring the music
of the Mediterranean basin and the Arab world…
Following our inspiring collaborations with Climène Zarkan, Baptiste Ferrandis (Sarāb), and
Robinson Khoury, the desire naturally arose to broaden our horizons — moving beyond our
almost exclusively jazz collaborations to embrace new musical influences.
The arrival of Hamza El Alj as Artistic Advisor and Development Manager allows us to bring
this vision to life.
L’Autre Rive — a shift in perspective, a crossing enriched by encounters and the discovery of
other cultures.
SARAH LENKA
jazz / folk / oriental
SARAH LENKA
Sarah Lenka is a storyteller devoted to narrating the lives of women — between wonder and roughness, and in the midst, the infinite sublimity of their experiences. Winner of the SACEM Prize for Best Jazz Singer and an artist of the Génération SPEDIDAM program, she has released four albums, rich with powerful reinterpretations and original compositions. She carves a singular path in the French musical landscape, celebrated for her dedication to portraying women’s lives in all their complexity. One of her recurring obsessions is singing about exile and uprooting.
Her latest album, ISHA, embodies this vision perfectly. Her music honors the resilience of women across generations, carrying their memory through a deeply emotional listening experience.
Sarah Lenka transcends boundaries, blending ancient traditions with contemporary innovation. She navigates multiple languages — English, Arabic, and a touch of Hebrew — and skillfully intertwines them with a folk sound inspired by Western traditions, creating a musical universe both intimate and expansive.
DUO Miral
Chanson / oriental / jazz
DUO MIRAL
Climène Zarkan — a magnetic voice and intuitive composer — and Baptiste Ferrandis, a refined guitarist with a poetic and visionary touch, weave together a deeply human music, nourished by multiple influences: traditional music, jazz, and sound poetry. Their work is turned toward intimacy and sensitivity, embracing emotion in all its nuance.
Their new EP, Horizons Roses, composed of six original pieces, embodies this subtle alchemy — a world of gentle shadows and fragile lights, carried by a delightfully timeless aesthetic where virtuosity meets emotion.
EVE RISSER & NAÏNY DIABATÉ
piano / voix du Mali
EVE RISSER & NAINY DIABATE « Anw be yonbolo »
Composer and pianist Eve Risser and Malian singer Naïny Diabaté explore contrast and harmony through a free-form encounter with Mandingo traditions — an unexpected alliance between the soaring clarity of voice and the vibrant textures of the prepared piano.
“Anw be yonbolo” means “We are together” in Bambara. The songs, often partly improvised, evoke themes of women’s rights, the protection and dignity of children, and the essential value of coexistence.
This collaboration celebrates a meeting of generations and cultures, where the spirit of sisterhood guides both artists as they carry their respective heritages — that of European and American composers and that of Malian griots and musicians — toward new continents, both real and imaginary, where music becomes at once meditative and full of movement.
SARĀB
Rock Oriental
SARĀB
Selected for Les Inouïs du Printemps de Bourges 2025 – Île-de-France RegionSelected for MaMa 2025 – Paris
Born from the encounter between Franco-Syrian singer Climène Zarkan and guitarist Baptiste Ferrandis, Sarāb — meaning “mirage” in Arabic — masterfully blends rock, modern jazz, and Arabic sounds.
Since 2018, and after more than a hundred concerts across Europe and the Mediterranean, Sarāb has evolved and reinvented its universe. In early 2023, the group released Qawalebese Tape, a filmed EP born of a deep creative dive into millennia-old traditions infused with contemporary influences. The result is music that borders on the sacred, carrying a dimension beyond us, rooted in an oral heritage now fading under one-sided globalization. A delicate flirtation with latent anachronism, Sarāb dusts off cassette players and yellowed postcards… inviting listeners into a space of memory where harmony makes the maqāmāt — oriental modes — dance in a storm of electric fury.
Their new album, Mīt warde – Cent Roses , will be released on February 6, 2026 — a poetic and electric cry at the crossroads of maqām, UK rock, and analog synths. (Release party on February 16, 2026 at La Maroquinerie, Paris).
MEHDI NASSOULI
Guembri, voix / Gnaoua trad. & fusion
MEHDI NASSOULI
Guembri, voice – traditional & fusion Gnawa music
A true ambassador of Gnawa culture across numerous countries and traditional stage formats, the young Moroccan artist Mehdi Nassouli brings both legitimacy and mastery, as well as the audacity to share the stage with internationally renowned musicians: Titi Robin, with whom he has toured for 12 years, Benjamin Tobkin, Omar Sosa, Andy Emler, Karim Ziad, Hindi Zahra, Para One, Nneka, Justin Adams, Alpha Blondy, among others.
Yet beyond collaboration, Mehdi Nassouli has forged his own resolutely contemporary and fusion universe with the Mehdi Nassouli Band, where tradition meets innovation, and the sounds of the guembri and voice resonate in a modern, global language.
Robinson Khoury
JAZZ HYBRIDE / ORIENTAL
ROBINSON KHOURY
Django Reinhardt Prize 2024 – Académie du Jazz
Best French Jazz Musician of the Year
Nominated for the 2025 Victoires du Jazz – “Concert of the Year” Category
Jazz sous les Pommiers Artist-in-Residence until 2026
A young trombone virtuoso, Robinson Khoury is one of the most exciting new voices on the jazz scene. With remarkable instrumental mastery, he brings sweeping lyricism to every melody he touches—as well as to his dazzling improvisations.
At just 30 years old, Khoury has already performed with some of the world’s leading ensembles (Metropole Orkest, Quincy Jones Orchestra in 2019) and regularly collaborates with both French and international artists, including Michel Portal, Sarāb, Théo Ceccaldi, Leïla Martial, Abdullah Miniawy, and Erik Truffaz.
A musician in constant exploration, his explosive energy and lyrical technique are the foundation of a powerful artistic vision—one that is deeply personal and unmistakably his own.
In 2024, he was awarded the Django Reinhardt Prize by the Académie du Jazz, recognizing him as the Best French Jazz Musician of the Year.
Following Broken Lines (a Charles Cros Academy “Coup de Cœur” in 2021), he released MŸA (Komos Records), an album where he crafts a thrilling alchemy of jazz, Middle Eastern sounds, early music, and electronic textures.
As an artist-in-residence at Jazz sous les Pommiers since 2024, he is developing two major new works for 2025–2026: Quatuor Demi-Lune and Aria.
KEYVAN CHEMIRANI
zarb / oriental
KEYVAN CHEMIRANI
TALES OF NAR
The two sons of master Djamchid Chemirani embody both a prestigious lineage of Persian classical music and a uniquely French passion for weaving together diverse traditions. The rhythms they explore are at once ancient and new, deeply rooted yet postmodern, venturing into jazz, pop, Breton music, and high-level improvisation.
In 2022, Keyvan Chemirani composed a bold opera for the Deutsche Oper Berlin, Negar, telling a sapphic love story set in the Iran of the mullahs. During this project, he met an extraordinary Japanese violinist in the German orchestra, Yvlin, whose playing shows “an unprecedented openness to Oriental modality combined with the full rigor of Western classical practice,” as Keyvan describes. He also recalled pianist Benjamin Moussay, with whom he had worked a decade earlier in clarinetist Louis Sclavis’s quartet — “a boundary-free musician; he loves pop, he loves Bach.”
Their first residency at Abbaye de Royaumont produced an unexpected result: the duo found themselves delightfully happy as a quartet. The project thus took shape under the name Tales of Nar – Tales of New Ancient Rhythms.