Malik Djoudi has returned to its music room, 30 years after having set foot there for the last time. “It’s a moment of emotion because coming back here is pretty crazy. I see the classrooms that haven’t necessarily changed much, the corridors, the courtyard“, launches the poitevin musician who studied at Jean Monnet college in sixth and fifth. He was back this Thursday, January 6 to launch with the Vietnamese artist Dong lan a joint musical project between the Poitevin establishment and a college in the province of Diên Biên, northwest Vietnam.
By the end of the school year, the 4th in “music schedules” will go create a song from scratch, in Vietnamese college, the same exercise will be done. The idea was initiated by the urban community of Grand Poitiers. “That the students of Lusignan meet the students of Vietnam through music, it’s great, ”says Malik Djoudi.
Teachers become spectators
On the menu for this first rehearsal:vocal improvisation, just to warm up. “It was super cool. We have gained confidence in ourselves. And then Malik accompanied us well“, affirms Claire. Maëlle for her part is enthusiastic to meet”a singer who comes from where we live and who has succeeded. It’s like a tight bond between us and we feel a rapprochement.“
After this first lesson, the 4th and 3rd of the classes with timetables arranged in music were able to present to the artists who came this Thursday the first clip of their show the end of the year. “The context was really intimidating and they reacted very well. It promises beautiful things“, rejoices one of the students’ music teacher, Stéphanie Blais. The full performance on stage with musicians from Poitou is scheduled for next june.
Malik Djoudi’s latest album, “Troy“, was released last September. The Poitevin had presented it in the program Accès Direct on France Bleu.
In 2018, he had participated in the show Poitou Live Blue :