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Homayun Sakhi is known as the "Great Grand Master of Rubab." He'll be performing in Paris on the 4th of May 2009.

In 1929, when Thomas de Hartmann and his wife took leave of G. I. Gurdjieff at Gurdjieff's Institute near Paris, they left behind a steamer trunk filled with manuscript music, much of which is recorded here for the first time. The music was composed by Gurdjieff and de Hartmann in a collaboration witnessed daily by the community of Gurdjieff's pupils and documented both in de Hartmann's book Our Life with Mr Gurdjieff and in the well-preserved sequence of manuscript drafts. One thing is clear: an exceptional musical event occurred at the Institute for the Harmonious Development of Man in the years 1925-27, and its enduring result is this body of music.

Felipe Cabrera, à la basse, donne ici la réplique aux tamboreros réunis en collectif (batas, congas et cajones)...Rumbabierta vient de sortir un disque avec Julien Loureau (labelbleu/2007)

Satie was a colourful figure in the early 20th century Parisian avant-garde. He was a precursor to later artistic movements such as minimalism, repetitive music and the Theatre of the Absurd.