Les Yeux Noirs

Moe's Alley welcomes back gypsy jazz maestros LES YEUX NOIRS from Paris France for their long awaited return. This will be an early show with doors opening at 7pm, and music beginning at 7:30pm. Their will be limited seating for this performance in front and on the side of the stage available on a first come first serve basis, with plenty of dance space as well.

ABOUT LES YEUX NOIRS
Two brothers.
Six musicians…

For twelve years, LES YEUX NOIRS (« Black Eyes ») have been carving their own path down the road of Yiddish and Gypsy music, supported by a growing audience. Inspired by different influences, LES YEUX NOIRS invite us to share in moments of intense emotion and indescribable joy, as they weave their magic with extraordinary energy.
Both joyous and nostalgic, this nomadic music perfectly reflects the lives of a persecuted people in exile, caught up in a massive Diaspora, all with an unshakeable will to live.

In 2000, the band left behind traditional standards and enriched their line-up with drums, cymbalum, electric bass and guitar, incorporated their own compositions into the mix and reinterpreted a French song in the style of LES YEUX NOIRS. Balamouk, their fourth album, has made a name for itself as a reference in the genre, both in France and abroad.

In 2001, LES YEUX NOIRS debuted their career in the United States, starting from scratch. To date, they have performed more than a hundred concerts in their six tours in the States and they now regularly tour the US three months out of every year.

The Live album, released in 2002, portrays the evolution of the band’s universe.

LES YEUX NOIRS have widened their original base out of the comfortable networks of cultural centers and theaters, conquering new venues worldwide: reggae, jazz and classic festivals, Californian biker clubs, churches and smoky cellars… Meeting these different audiences, the band has fulfilled their dreams and revealed its multiple facets.

The brand new album tChorba (“soup”) is made up of these contrasting experiences. It gathers various ingredients that were recorded, co-produced and mixed by the colorful Stuart Bruce (Frankie Goes To Hollywood, Paco de Lucia, John McLaughlin, Al di Meola, Amadou & Maryam, Susheela Raman, Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, etc.)

Self-produced by the band for the first time, this album includes some songs in French as well as rich and heady atmospheres that are just like these very eyes.

Discography
A Band of Gypsies (Buda Musiques 1992), Suites (Buda Musiques 1994), Izvoara (Odéon/EMI 1997), Balamouk (Odéon/EMI 2000), Live (Capitol/EMI 2002), Chorba (Zamora 2004)