BARRUT

(FR)

Seven voices, a drum and an abyss underfoot. Barrut doesn't just sing - it summons, questions, tears silences. The vocal collective from the northern shores of the Mediterranean has been building a visceral polyphony for ten years that crosses tradition and revolt, popular roots and contemporary impulses. Made up of three women, four men and a percussionist, Barrut explores singing as a poetic battlefield. The harmonies are dense, sometimes hypnotic, other times as raw as stone. There is something telluric about his original compositions: a return to the fundamentals of the voice, where sound is not adornment but vital expression, almost a cry.

Inspired by ancient polyphonic chants, the group doesn't limit itself to its heritage: it reinvents it with the urgency of the present. The percussion, sharp and precise, sustains the permanent tension that runs through their performances - concerts that are rituals, spaces of resistance, encounters between the intimate and the collective. The body listens, but it also sways, vibrates and reacts. More than four hundred live performances later, Barrut has kept his mission intact: to explore the word, to refine listening, to transform music into a territory of radical expression. And ‘Travèrsas’, the Gaulish collective's latest album, is proof that the human voice is the most powerful of instruments.