Autrice compositrice interprète, elle chante sa vision du monde avec douceur accompagnée par sa guitare et son looper. Née au Canada, elle a grandi dans le finistère, près de la mer. Sa musique est le reflet de ses deux cultures, elle chante en anglais ses airs aux sonorités indie-folk puisant son inspiration dans la nature, les livres ou les oeuvres d’art

Maïa is a unique singer and flautist. 
From a French-Japanese background, she has clearly found her way towards a boundless musical self-expression, rooted in solid classical training and a unique rendition of her heritage. 
The audience can expect to be transported along the Paris-Tokyo axis to space and beyond.
 She describes her style as ELECTRO-ROOTS-POP-PUNK . 
Maïa sings using an unknown special throat technique from a small island in the South of Japan, mixing it with modern and electric sounds, but the flute is her first instrument. After studying classical and jazz, she quickly transformed the way she played as she started making her own music, improvising, singing with her flute and using it as percussion.
 

After much going back and forth between Paris and Tokyo, the teenager began her career in the Tokyo underground playing the saxophone with Japanese street band, accompanying dragqueens, dancers and musicians from all edges. she multiplied the tours and concerts throughout the archipelago, releasing albums produced "Kusamakura" a compilation of the new Japanese scene.
But this latest project, produced by the legendary Martin Meissonnier (who has worked with the likes of Fela Kuti, Robert Plant & Jimmy Page, Khaled and Manu Dibango) is something completely new.


The earthquake and the nuclear accident that hit Japan on March 11, 2011 marked a turning point in Maïa’s development as a musician. The man-made catastrophe and the destruction that followed pushed her to re-root herself deeply in the musical traditions of Japan, gathering the songs of fishermen, sailors, party songs from Fukushima which she calls as "Japanese bleus" and take them out to the wider world, in her own interpretation, while integrating also her compositions.

The album "KODAMA" got released in France UK and Japan in 2015.

 Backed by powerful musicians and a free-flowing instinct that transcends national borders, Maïa offers an extraordinarily broad melodic landscape where melancholy and madness ride over percussive grooves, trance-like dance tunes and stripped-down a cappella singing. 

"Striking stage presence, crazy folk trance, volcanic energy, traditional and pop Japanese singing and occasional touches of flute make up the exciting mix that is Maïa Barouh.”

Bon Iver is an art project based in Wisconsin.

In 1998, songwriting & production duo Emily Haines & Jimmy Shaw formed what would become Metric and left Toronto for NYC in search of like-minded artists. In 2001/2002, they were joined by drummer Joules Scott Key & bassist Joshua Winstead, and found themselves at the center of the city’s burgeoning alt-rock scene alongside bands like LCD Soundsystem, The Strokes, TV On the Radio, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Interpol and more. Unlike their peers, Metric resisted major label offers, releasing albums that pushed boundaries on their own terms.

Metric’s relentless pursuit of timeless songwriting and fiercely independent ethos have cemented their place as one of the most essential and ahead-of-the-curve bands of the last two decades. By constantly upping themselves across nine unpredictable and adventurous studio albums, the trailblazing Toronto outfit founded by Emily Haines & Jimmy Shaw is proof that you can amass an untouchable catalog without signing to a major label or changing your lineup. Their latest LP, Formentera II, out October 13 via their label MMI & Thirty Tigers, is a testament to their singular purpose. It stands among their best and most genre-defying work and closes the 18-song cycle started by 2022’s critically acclaimed Formentera

Norwegian singer-songwriter Siv Jakobsen quickly became a favourite of the indie-folk world with her first EP ‘The Lingering’. Tours supporting Bear’s Bear’s Den, Benjamin Francis Leftwich and Damien Jurado followed before Jakobsen then truly delivered on that early promise with the arrival of her debut album The Nordic Mellow.  The 10-song collection was a testament to Siv’s bold lyricism and stunning vocal ability, transporting the listener into her world from the very first note.

In 2020 she released her widely-acclaimed sophomore album, ‘A Temporary Soothing’, which as well as receiving incredible reviews from the likes of Line of Best Fit, Clash Magazine and Under The Radar, was also nominated for a Norwegian grammy, a Spellemann. The vulnerability of her work has gained her many listeners across the world with Jakobsen having accrued 35 million streams to date. She’s spent the last few months supporting the likes of José González, The Lumineers and Susanne Sundfør, and is now preparing to share her latest body of work with the world.

Label, Booking Agency, Management : 

LINDIGO - GUISS GUISS BOU BESS - IGANCIO MARIA GOMEZ - SENNY CAMARA - RENATA ROSA - CASUARINA - DAMILY - RODA DO CAVACO - DJ CHICO CORREA - TIGANÁ SANTANA - DJEBALETI - ONEIRA - FERNANDO CAVACO (...) 

Booking : 
info@helicomusic.com

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