Nø Førmat! 20th anniversary, live in Paris

Saturday, September 28, 2024, at the Théâtre Silvia Monfort in Paris, we celebrated Nø Førmat!'s 20th anniversary. In the afternoon, about ten artists from the label invited dancers and circus artists to join them for a series of improvised, acoustic performances in and around the theater. The evening was to be a one-off concert. Musical direction was entrusted to Vincent Segal who, together with his friend Ballaké Sissoko, wanted to invite Piers Faccini, Ala.ni, Lucas Santtana, Emile Parisien and Vincent Peirani on stage. Sadly, five weeks before the concert, Ballaké lost his mother in Mali and had to travel there for the traditional 40-day ceremony. Together with Vincent Segal, we decided to keep the concert on. On stage, Ballaké's empty chair was there, the whole concert was dedicated to him, and his presence was palpable, which gave the evening a very special flavor. We finally decided to turn this one-off concert, reserved for the audience in the room, into a live album, a first in our catalog. What decided us was not only the emotion that gripped us all that night, which we dreamed of keeping a trace of, but above all the level and quality of the performances, the grace of every artist who came on stage, musicians and vocalists alike, and the feeling of a gift from them, unique and ephemeral, but one that deserved to be preserved.