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Literally "Ambassy of the Invisible", SEFARAT' AL KHAFAÂ offers a peculiar synthesis of Afro-Maghrebi and European musics sharing the exploration, interrogation and invocation of the "subtle". The Gnawa's music has become the main reference and inspiration as it is, inherently, dedicated to communicate with the "invisible".

A powerful brass ensemble, the colours of voices and chorus, a delicacy of harmonies and mingled rhythms, a cohesion of an ensemble allowing each personality to express itself freely, are the trademark of a band in which instruments and traditional sources blend with the sounds and modern techniques used by inspired and experienced instrumentalists.
Thanks to this, S'aK creates an unheard mixed repertoire made of original compositions and arrangements derived from the Gnawa Tradition.

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ABDOU BEKHECHI
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He created the “Boukakes” in 1996 and performed nationally and internationally, notably as the opener of Rachid Taha, Zebda, the Skatalites... At the same time, he collaborated on the creation of the band Wah (opening act of Earth Wind and Fire, Jacques Higelin, Ceux qui Marchent Debout ...). He also contributed to the surge of the band Sarai and is known for being a “outspoken singer with a strong character”, as well as a “desert wise”. The “French Gnawa” can rely on his wide knowledge of Maghrebi musical traditions (Gnawa, Ahwach, Châabi, Alawi, Arabo-andalousian...).


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ALAIN BARBIERO
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Graduate of the IMFP (Salon de Provence) in 1997. As an experienced improviser and brass section musician, he has collaborated on many musicals projects, e.g. Hot Urbain (Hard Funk), Yamtchik (Gipsy Jazz), Dig Dong Brass (Brass Band), N'gwo Ka (West Indian Music), Brother Got One (electro-jazz), K'assos (Rythm'n Blues) He also leads his own jazz combo, the “Al Barbiero Quartet”.

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JEAN-LUC BORLA
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Guitarist and bass player, he's started with pop and rock (Les 12, Chitchen Itza, les Opportunistes, Poinalbouc Orchestral, Sticky Fingers ...). From 1996 to 2005 he performs with Chico and The Gypsies (Dubaï, Turkey, Germany, Monaco, France...). He's also created musics for theatre and dance shows (l’Olivier - Istres / Mark Tompkins), film scores for institutional movies and youth theatre. In 2001 he started specializing in the creation of website soundtracks and “Mobile Web Applications” for record labels and independent musicians. Astounded by the Gwana's music in 2008, he's been since initiated into guembre's technique.

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DAWOUD BOUNABI
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Graduate of the MAI music school (Nancy) in 1994, Dawoud is an “ethnic jazz” drummer. He joined several bands such as le Diwan de Mona, Misère et Cordes, Al Barbiero Quartet, Anoune, Fwad Darwich & Dialects, Saf Sap... He then built on his teaching skills to create the DVD “from 12/8 to 4/4” and offers “Master Classes” taking place in many international courses (Summer Drums Show - La Grande Motte, Summer Camp - Nevers and Cosne sur Loire, Tam Tam - Montluçon...).

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JEROME DRU
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Eclectic and poly-ethnic guitarist, he instils his "multi-lack-of-discipline" in a variety of styles such as funk-rock (Putsch), North-African and oriental musics (Saraï, Derya Ogün, Mohammed Zeftari, Dar French Gnawa, S’aK), jazz and improvised musics (KingKong, Quintet Zimpro, Pierre Coulon-Cerisier WiredSystem, le Confort du Foie, BGO), electro (e-WozZ), jungle (MoSound), polyphonic songs (Vespas), theatre (soundtracks for companies such as TNT, La Rampe TIO, La Mangoune ...), dance (Verde Luna with Bruno Pradet, Le Nouveau Monde with Cie Yann Lheureux) or contemporary-art experiences (Jean Morières, Pascale Labbé, the Bal Ultra-Moderne...).

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DAJAHDEE
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He spent 4 years with Maâlem Azouz Soudani (cofounder of the Tyour Gnawa band) who initiated him to the Gnawa customs and traditions (dance, songs, karkabous, guembre). He attended many Gnawa celebrations at Essaouira, Marocco. Back to France, he then created the ADD Jazz Trio (awarded in the 2008 Jazz festival in Porquerolles, France) and became a cofounder of the Gnawa Tribe Collective (including ADFG, ADD and Serafat’ al Khafaâ).

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YOHAN FAYOLLE-RINGER
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Autodidact trombonist and tuba player, passionate by improvised music, he has been part of many street music bands as well as traditional, funk and jazz bands (Dig Dong Brass, Al Barbiero Quartet ...)


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GUIOM REGNIER
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He studied classical piano with Thomas Girard and jazz with Frank van Royen, at the IMFP (Salon-de-Provence) with the pianists Pierre Camas and Mario Stanchev. He has been performing with many bands such as Sweet Soul (funk-soul), Morning (a jazz quartet he created ; opener of Ph. Petrucciani, Francesco Castellani...), performs in USA, Germany, Switzerland, Belgium, Poland with “Les Voix Provençales”, “Le Condor”. He has also been part of the “Gipsy All Stars” project directed by Mario Reyes, (with the collaboration of Al di Meola), performed with the Gitano Family (Dubaï ...) with Wah (with the collaboration of A. Bekhechi), Saï-Saï (Marrakech). He is the sideman of many modern music records as well (Nationale 7, IC June, Agathe, EKZ...).

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about Sefarat' al Khafaa-collectif gnawa tribe
“The music has the ability to reveal the unseen, to let show the hidden part of the world's reality.
Art, if it is what we are talking about, would consist in establishing, from the perception and the expression of the tangible, a communication with the invisible world, a resonance between our -individual and collective- inwardness and the cosmos !
Refering to ancient traditions such as the Gnawa's mean to take into consideration a picturing of the world through the "non-manifest", the symbolic ... the magical.
Proposing an "imaginary" music, which means to explore forms, to find languages, to have recourse to a symbolic images system, come close to the same will of picturing the world -or the worlds-... perceptibly revealed by the musicians- "purveyors", interpreters of the signs and, why not, "re-finder" of the myths.
That's what is leading us to consider the use of music under a specific point of view : the one who let feel and experience the unspeakable and the "unshowable", even though we can perceive and have access to a sacred dimension and a sensible knowledge without which we might forget a part of our humanity.“

Marcel Roumi