Six powerful, united, earthy, almost shamanic voices with a deep percussion accompaniment producing unforgettable hypnotic folk. Meet San Salvador, a young French group that sings in the Occitan dialect. In their captivating debut album 'La Grande Folie' the sextet impresses with its mastery of harmonies, exuding emotion and modernity. They went through rock and punk, mixing brass instruments with their voices, before returning six years ago to an a cappella format reinforced by two bass toms and a tambourine. Their polyphony is as rooted as it is creative, as traditional as it is resolutely contemporary. The listener feels carried away to an elsewhere in time that, curiously enough, is as familiar as it is exotic.
