Ozma ...

Yet another concert :) Damn I'm loving them, this one was at Excess @Novotel and free drinks n snacks. The music was good but I'm not a great fan for rock (though it was rock-jazz), and I loved the earlier one by Sylvian Luc much much much much better but it's overall a very good concert also considering the company :)
Starting out as a working group as well as one of the musical research and experimentations, OZMA was born in 2001 as a result of the meeting of three young students at the conservatory of Strasbourg. A trio at first, inspired by metric jazz, funk and some musical exoticism, Adrien Deennefeld, Stephane Scharle and Edouard Sero Guillaume lay down the foundations of what was to be the future ozmic music.

In 2004 the group expanded with the arrival of David Florsch and Guillaume Nuss. The quintet then created a new repertoire combining each members energy and experience. In 2005, the group of five release a self produced album called OZMA which was the fruit of severall years of friendship and musical connivance. OZMA gave and captivated by frevidness, dynamism, generosity and childlike mindset, its passion, five friends who like playing together a real talent's fusion, which let nobody indiffernt.

It's just a great group and they played really good numbers mostly self composed, and for a change here is the group in b&w

Marriages, Concerts and life

This was supposed to be posted in mid March :D

Like I previously mentioned, had a very nice time at both the cousins weddings. No more close relatives weddings for the next 6yrs, and by then who knows whos who!!

Been to this concert, "Duo Rosario" on 1st March and one by Sylvain Luc on 18th March.

The 1st one was vocal + instrumental, it included French, spanish and Italian songs along with English. There was also solo instrumental by a 8yr old and another vocal by a local group. But the actual group i.e. the Duo Rosario was excellent. Two music lovers of classical vocal and guitar, Celine Laly and Mickael Noel, set up the Duo Rosario in 2005. It was important for them to add value to the unusual combination of voice and guitar in the world of classical music, which favoured only the more regular forms like guitar-flute, guitar-violin, song-piano, completely negating one side of the repertoire. To highlight their repertoire, the musicians have selected works of each era, particularly representing their style and their form. So they enter into their program works as varies as songs of farmyard, cycles of melodies or popular songs and thus us SIX different languages. But yes the major languages were French and English, and I should say the lady had an incredible voice. Mickael didn't really know English and was on guitar all the time.

This inspired me to buy a cam ;) and this was on 18th March Sylvain Luc Trio -- Only instrumental and I have to tell you, this was/is my all time best concert. "In Esukadi, before the music, there is the transparency of the air, and the wide song, lyrical atfirst. Over there where Sylvain Luc comes from music is in your mind before being in your fingers." - Sylvain Luc, indeed was excellent. An accomplished and talented musician, he begun music early, sharing his love of music with his brothers in Bayonne. Accordion on one side, drums on the other are as many influences he claims as he plays manouche music, valse, or basque folklore. He laso plays bass, violin or cello which he studied at the conservatory. In early 90s and since he played with many great names like Richard Galliano the Argentinean singer Jairo or George Moustaki among many others.

Here he playes with Jean-Marc Jafet on bass guitar and Andre Ceccarelli on drums. Andre also played music with a plain paper, trust me it was just a plain paper. No wonder this group won the best jazz music award in 2003 and also nominated for the best jazz album of the year.


I wish I could write more, infact I could write forever, I recorded a few but I definitely realized how much I missed not having a cam and I bought one finally a 7.1MP Powershot, simple and does the purpose.

More marriages and concerts lined up, I'll be doing a lot of travelling too :D just in India though