Maïa Barouh

ENGLISH: Maïa Barouh is a French-Japanese singer, flautist, songwriter and producer. Her sound is a unique mix of traditional Japanese singing, electro, pop and rap with lyrics in French and Japanese. Described as a “punk shaman” by the German press, she effortlessly blends elements from her musical heritage with contemporary sounds to create a distinctive marriage of both cultures. After 11 years of touring right across the Japanese archipelago, she decided to settle in her other native land, France. In Paris she created the album “Kodama” and toured all around Europe for 5 years, before starting work on her brand new project “AIDA”; an album which sonically and lyrically explores her French-Japanese identity. With a distinctive soundworld built around her two main instruments, flute and voice, “AIDA” (which means “between”) is a raw, spacious and thought-provoking album, which also manages to be playful, quirky and at times disconcerting, for example when she explores anti-Asian racism and feminism. With her extensive stage experience, quirky style, volcanic energy and limitless creativity Maïa Barouh takes us on a trip, where tribal music and electro rub shoulders with pop and rap. This is her radical approach to reinventing her roots. マイア・バルーは東京生まれ、パリ育ちのシンガー＆マルチミュージシャン。 歌手、プロデューサーの父、ピエール・バルーのもと幼い頃からたくさんの音楽に触れ合い、特にジャズ、ブラジル、アフリカ、ジプシー音楽を聴きながら自分の音楽感を育てる。 2011年よりフランスに拠点を移し民謡をモダン化したKODAMAを製作しパワフルなバックバンドと共にフランスだけではなくヨーロッパを５年間周った。 ２０２１年、間も無く新譜AIDAがリリースされるのでお楽しみに！