Patrick Bengio is a composer, improviser, guitarist, oudist and singer, born and active in Montreal, Quebec, of Quebecer and Moroccan origins.

Surrounded by musical diversity since his youth owing to his mixted origins and musical investments of his paternal and maternal families, he has been fascinated by the relationship between musical styles and cultures, their differences, their resemblances, and their context. But more than anything, he holds the profound conviction that all forms of beauty, art, and human expression are equal in artistic magnificence and deserve a space within musical contemporaneity, within the creation of new music.

Going beyond a simple encounter, his influences fuse into one musical language. This language speaks the subtlety and complexity of Middle Eastern melodies and modes. It intensifies with the rhythmic energy and excitement of progressive rock. It is orchestrated within the great harmonic textures of western classical music. Lastly it unravels evolutive and dreamlike forms, leaving space for experimentation and the discovery of possibility.

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