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The KaRu PROD association places issues relating to cultural diversity and cultural rights at the center of its concerns, in particular through the promotion of intangible heritage. The structure created in November 2016, concentrates its activities around gypsy and gypsy music from the south of France. It articulates its actions around four major axes:- production of cultural events- management and support of artists- record label dedicated to these musics- cultural engineeringThe four axes are complementary to each other and reinforce each other.

Informations sur les artistes produits, en tournée, programmés

Antoine “Tato” Garcia
With his album "El Mundo", Antoine Tato Garcia explores a resolutely modern rumbason. A rumbason where he frees himself from the codes of classical Catalan rumba to surf on Cuban sound and Mediterranean jazz. This synthesis leads the artist to offer a game that is more harmonically open and resolutely turned towards the polyrhythms that rocked his childhood. From ballads, imprinted with melismatic songs, to lyrical flights, passing through lines of energetic and melodious guitars at the same time, Tato tells a singular story. A story where love rubs shoulders with his questions about the world, as shown by his commitment to plastic waste management in the title “El Mundo”.
New album "Rumbason" coming in April 2022 on the Karu Prod label.
Line Up:
Antoine Tato Garcia: guitar/vocals
Eliene Castillo: minor percussion/vocals
Emilio Poubill: percussion/choir
Guillaume Bouthié: double bass/bass/

Steeve LAFFONT
Today, this star of the gypsy galaxy shines with the authority he exudes on stage, always surrounded by excellent musicians with whom he establishes a dialogue of magnificent and subtle depth. Rhythmic rigor, melodic virtuosity, ability to improvise, lyricism are with Steeve always brought to a degree of excellence with a constant bonhomie, as if the technical prowess were self-evident, the vertiginous jousts and dialogues, the tightrope walks and yet regulated with extreme meticulousness. (Jazz Magazine)
With his new album “Alba Gitana” Steeve Laffont is opening up new horizons. His personal compositions offer the ingredients of an unusual recipe: gypsy touch, flamenco scents, bossa nova ruptures, Indian spices, klezmer rhythms and Spanish colors. Steeve lets himself be lulled by what has made the very essence of gypsy culture: travel and the unexpected. The album is the story of this emancipation, this joy of now having no account to render, no legacy to respect but so many roots to germinate. (Celine Rousseau)
New album Alba Gitana: available since March 25, 2022 "Choc Jazz Magazine"
Line-up acoustic trio :
Steeve Laffont: guitars
Dominique Di Piazza: bass
Rudy Rabuffetti: guitar
Line up electric trio :
Steeve Laffont: guitars
Dominique Di Piazza: bass
Julien Rappin: drums
(Featuring : Eliene Castillo, Tato vocals, Costel Nitescu violin)