Musician in the time but I travelled all this time with a guitar …
Later, in Geneva a big attraction for the African dance, the meeting with Paco Yé, with whom I take regular courses during 5 years, Elsa Wolliatson gave internships every month a weekend which I followed assidument. Then an internship in Bobo Dioulasso at the end of 1984, I came back from New York, 15 days in a court to be danced 8 am a day with the group Farafina in full just for us, wonderful experience.
Between 1987 and 89, my first group with African: Djambadon, composition of a singer of Guinea Bissau, Koté Carvalho, political refugee. Some elements of the group … Erik Truffaz, Philippe Ehinger, Serge Zaugg …
Nothing more in touch with this continent until the tour of my 4tet in western Africa in 1997, which tempts me to turn to it. A stock exchange to teach allows me at first to stay a few months in Ougadougou where I make the sound for Wassa, club where parades musicians of all the countries surroundings. I discover a multitude of different musics, Ghana of Mauritania, Niger, Mali, an experience rich in color and in sound. I train a group with the player of Kora Mara Diabaté, with whom will produce us to us in Burkina in France and in Switzerland. I train a quartet more jazz with 3 virtuoso musicians, Joe Kaiat in the piano, Alain Cameroonian bass player and a Togolese drummer whose first name I do not remember to myself and then I stay in Bamako where I live at Toumani Diabaté who invites me to play frequently the Dogon, the club where he occurs every on Wednesday evening. I have the immense pleasure to play with several big musicians mandingues among whom Kéletigui Diabaté and Bassékou Kouyaté.
After some going returns with Europe, I eventually stay one year in Bamako, where I go up my first studio, some recordings, and some experiences make me beat a retreat, I realize rather fast that it is not possible to make its living with the music in Africa.
In 2002 meet in Neuchâtel with Ibrahima Galissa and Christophe Erard, we train the group Taffeta, we register and after some trips, we sign with the label Most record in London. Turned in Italy, Spain, London, Paris, South Korea, Tanzania, Zanzibar.