Music is often a reflection of its creator : it evolves over space and time, it travels, and it influences other music.  At times, it offers a unique expression of a particular culture and its traditions.  Other times, in a different context, in another location, music transforms itself, absorbs other genres and seeks fertile ground in which to grow new roots. The former tradition - perpetuated in another place is now adorned with new colours.
When they first emerged, blues and jazz were music for blacks. Initially rejected by the elite, it took only one-half century to convert the most reluctant and to receive their highest accolades not only on stages but also in the very heart of their own cultural identity.
And surely, in the Paradise for black jazzmen, the Chet Bakers, the Django Reinhardts, and the Michel Petruccianis celebrate this open acceptance. But history continues and today, the same phenomenon of cultural absorption is present among western cultures particularly among Swiss musicians and the more traditional African music culture. There is a new sound emerging that is directly related to jazz and to blues but closer to their original influences than to their common ancestors.
Emerging from a rich tapestry of experience, les Palabres Bleues are a musical meeting between artists steeped in jazz, blues and west-African, Saharan rhythms, and their possible African roots, offering an audio ambience where age-old acoustics meet electronic resonance.

Vincent Zanetti