Miquèu Montanaro & Vasilis Zlatanos: F.R.E.W (Folk Roots Electro Wings)

Miquèu Montanaro (Occitania) and Vasilis Zlatanos (Greece) collaborate on a set that incorporates live electronics and flutes, blending folk, improvisation, and electroacoustic elements.

🔷 Composer, musician, multi-instrumentalist, representative of the culture of Occitania, founder of the band Vents d’Est. Miquèu Montanaro collects elements from the traditional music of each place around the world. He studied saxophone before studying the traditional music of Provence and flutes. Fascinated from an early age by the intersection of cultures, both geographical and historical, his work is characterized by collaborations and encounters, both in improvisational music (Barre Phillips, Alan Vitous, Serge Pesce, Fabrice Gaudé) and in so-called world music (Carlo Rizzo, Keyvan Chemirani, Fouad Didi, Baltazar Nagy-Montanaro), in French “chanson” (Arthur H., Georges Moustaki, Sylvie Berger), new traditional music (Laurence Bourdin, Pierre-Laurent Bertolino, Estelle Amsellem), early music (Kobzos Kiss Tamàs, Kecskés, Gérard Le Vot) or chamber music (Quatuor Talich, OCTV). In Greece, he has composed music for Nena Venetsanou. He has given hundreds of concerts, from Latin America to Central Europe, from Africa to Coursegoules in the French Alps, the United States or Indonesia.

🔷 Vasilis Zlatanos is a composer, musician and sound designer. He works in film, dance, theatre and live music, mixing elements of acoustic instruments with electronic and electro-acoustic elements.