Déjà l’une des révélations scène de 2022, KUTU est le fruit de la rencontre, à Addis Abeba, du violoniste et compositeur français Théo Ceccaldi et des chanteuses éthiopiennes Hewan Gebrewold et Haleluya Tekletsadik. Porté par des grooves hypnotiques invitant à la transe, des lignes de claviers cosmiques et de superbes performances vocales, KUTU marie la liberté du jazz, l’immédiateté de la dance music et la profondeur incomparable de la musique éthiopienne. —-—-—-—-—-—-KUTU is the brainchild of revered French violinist and composer Théo Ceccaldi - a stalmart of the European improvised music scene - and Addis-Ababa based singers Hewan Gebrewold and Haleluya Tekletsadik. Following a first impressive round of shows and festivals all over France, KUTU are ready to take the world by storm with their astonishing debut album Guramayle (which both stands for ‘bilingual’ and ‘black and white’) due this fall. Unleashing hypnotic and trance-heavy grooves, thanks to a forceful rhythm section, cosmic keyboard lines and stellar vocal performances, KUTU merges the freedom of jazz, the immediacy of dance music and the incomparable depth of the Azmari sounds.
