The Voice on the Road
Lina Modika takes you to a world where the hours stretch and compress according to soft watches, where the days are made only of deliciously cool dawns and moist twilights, where the cities are nothing but restless chimeras in the end of the railway tracks, which you leave for other tracks after a devil's dance.
Mr Louie
We enter a music that frees us from any overload to enjoy the essence.
The listening and the audible passion are a pure delight.
Olivia Clain
A toy-piano sound, an unforgettable and unique vocal imprint, a roots guitar which carry us away in a somewhat lascivious 4-beat waltz, like a rickety cart on a long road in the southern States of America.
An air of Louisiana reviewed by Joann Sfar or Jim Jarmush, "Down By Law" era.
Lina Modika is also Zan, guitarist by profession and co-soul of this duo.
Lina is a real vocal discovery. What a pleasure to let go just listening to his voice!
Lina Modika picks you up from the first sounds.
Didier Boyaud -LDDLO
Pretty as an angel Lina
Very padded melodies or vaporous flights of an unclassifiable artist.
A tessitura in direct filiation with Björk all in vulnerability, it is to an indolent stroll which knows how to take its time that the very particular tones of a toy piano make even more bewitching that we are invited. It's as melodious and original as sometimes distorted or hissing for a really surprising result.
That it earned her to be selected for the Inouïs du Printemps de Bourges 2013 is anything but undeserved, as her show with its subtle lightness has allure.
Airy nonchalance slung over the shoulder and sensual and joyful wandering as a credo, it is undeniably a personality full of promise.
Jean Dessorty
​Lina and Zan, authors, co-composers and performers (first parts of Moriarty, Emily Loizeau, Yodelice, Piers Faccini, Paris Combo...), offer themselves, for their 10 years on the road, a fifth opus between compositions and favorites revisited.
ZAN
Guitars
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Cradled in the heart of a family of musicians and music lovers, he put his first notes on a guitar which he studied through jazz (IMFP, JAM), then it was with percussion that he opened up to the music of the world, and evolves within different formations.
So insatiable curious, in search of encounters, exchanges and learning, he leaves for other horizons, other people, other cultures, other music...
His travels will take him to Morocco, Turkey, the islands of the Indian Ocean, then to Greece where he will study Ottoman music, and more particularly the Rembetiko which he will play in the taverns of Athens. In the same spirit, his meeting with Keyvan Chemirani plunges him into the world of Persian classical music, and the in-depth work of rhythm.
It is thus nourished by ten years rich in colors, techniques and popular arts of the world, that he takes the family accordion for to found Kõsk (accordion clarinet duet)…
He discusses with him the various traditional Mediterranean, Balkan, Klezmer music... and more simply all the music from here. or for that matter who touch it.
In 2007, he meets Lina, who joins them in the Kõsk formation, then, all past musical experiences will naturally mingle to create the project. Lina and....
In 2010, they go on the road with the duo Lina Modika.
ZAN
Guitars
​
Cradled in the heart of a family of musicians and music lovers, he put his first notes on a guitar which he studied through jazz (IMFP, JAM), then it was with percussion that he opened up to the music of the world, and evolves within different formations.
So insatiable curious, in search of encounters, exchanges and learning, he leaves for other horizons, other people, other cultures, other music...
His travels will take him to Morocco, Turkey, the islands of the Indian Ocean, then to Greece where he will study Ottoman music, and more particularly the Rembetiko which he will play in the taverns of Athens. In the same spirit, his meeting with Keyvan Chemirani plunges him into the world of Persian classical music, and the in-depth work of rhythm.
It is thus nourished by ten years rich in colors, techniques and popular arts of the world, that he takes the family accordion for to found Kõsk (accordion clarinet duet)…
He discusses with him the various traditional Mediterranean, Balkan, Klezmer music... and more simply all the music from here. or for that matter who touch it.
In 2007, he meets Lina, who joins them in the Kõsk formation, then, all past musical experiences will naturally mingle to create the project. Lina and....
In 2010, they go on the road with the duo Lina Modika.
