BIO
Dat “nu” grijpt Thomas Noël aan om binnen zijn project The City Song naar de straten en huizen van Teheran te trekken en er de muziek op te snuiven. Het Gentse project The City’s Song wil samen met lokale artiesten een hedendaags, muzikaal en visueel portret van de stad maken, een nieuw soort journalistiek met muziek als taal en beelden als dragers.
Thomas' companions for this edition are on the one hand Soroosh Gharahmanloo, a tall man with an epic beard and a renowned name in Iran as a setar player and singer, and on the other hand Farnoosh Khodadadeh who once emigrated to Belgium out of love and now acts as an interpreter on her Iranian frame drum. Together with filmmaker Jonatan Lyssens, they also record everything on a sensitive record and provide a visual story that complements, counters, and comments on the music and songs. The end result consists of a series of concerts with accompanying images and with additional contributions by Robbe Kieckens on percussion and Anaïs Moffart on double bass, a concert film based on those concerts, a CD, and a photo report.
Thomas Noël: piano, wurlitzer, guitar, vocals
Soroosh Gharahmanloo: vocals, setar
Farnoosh Khodadadeh: vocals, daf, percussion
Robbe Kieckens: percussion
Anaïs Moffart: double bass, guitar, vocals
