Olivier Foy. Musicien, chanteur, comédien, régisseur de spectacle. Co-fondateur du groupe Herbe Rouge dans les années 1970 à 80. Après une trop longue pause de bien des années, a redécouvert le plaisir de chanter avec l'orgue de barbarie de Pierre Charial à Béziers et retrouvé avec délice la joie de travailler en groupe avec Marc Roger et Raymond Boni, partageant le même point de vue sur la beauté des textes de la poésie tsigane.
Raymond Boni. French guitarist improviser and composer, born march 15, 1947, in Toulon (France). Raymond Boni has crossed the path of many eager improvisers, in quest of spontaneaous and multifaceted exchanges. Those have often taken the form of duets, especially with drummers, such as Bertrand Gauthier, Eric Echampard, Hamid Drake, Lucy Bouquet, Makoto Sato, Didier Lasserre, Gilles Dalbis and Guillaume Jankowski (Janko).
His long association with Joe McPhee continues with various projects such as " Remembrance (with Michael Bisio on bass) or quartet " Next to you ". Raymond Boni is also part of " Mamabaray quartet " (with Maki Nakano, Bastien Boni, Makoto Sato ") .In autum 2019, for " the Bridge " tour (with Mai Sugimoto, Anton hatwhitch, and Paul Rogers). And for the 3 last years, was a member of " Grand8 " (a 20 musicians improvising band, based in Marseille -France).
More recently, he played and recorded : in duo with Sakina Abdou, in duo with Guillaume Jankowski (new 29 years old drummer), in trio " Energy Quest " (with Bastien Boni on acoustic double-bass, and Joao Fernandez on electronics home-made instrument), and in trio " as-tu déjà regardé dans le ciel ? " Which is a project about Gipsy poetry, with Olivier Foy(voice) and Marc Roger (guitar). From these recorded projects, CDs will be released in May, July and October 2022, by "Mazeto Square Records ", and " Circum-Disc ".
Raymond Boni has recorded up to now, more than 60 CDs. He is also part of " The Instant Award in Improvised Music 2020 Recipient ". And is still putting up different new projects for 2023, 2024 and over. Marc Roger. Musicien, d'origine sinti, passionné de jazz, et de jazz manouche, de musiques brésiliennes, de flamenco, et de musique improvisée. Il compose, et joue de la musique où l'on retrouve ces influences ; une musique colorée, une musique du voyage, instant tsigane, clin d'oeil brésilien...
A son actif : Festivals Jazz à Sète, Jazz à junas, les Couleurs du Jazz (Paris), Jazz à Helbron (Allemagne), hommage à la République espagnole (Argelès-sur-Mer), en Belgique, les Internationales de la Guitare...