Concert – Orange Blossom

It’s impossible to pigeonhole Orange Blossom, even if that pigeonhole were big enough to hold the whole world, because Orange Blossom goes far beyond ‘world music’. Electronic music, then? The same applies. Orange Blossom is the vision of Carlos Robles Arenas, a Mexican composer based in Nantes who has drawn on Turkish, Egyptian, Malian, Senegalese and Cuban traditions, with vocals in Arabic, Persian and Portuguese, to offer the world a fourth album of contemporary music, crystal-clear yet mysterious at the same time. As alluring as a siren’s song, these thirteen new tracks—spanning the last ten years—take us on a journey between a wild dance floor and a meditation room, without the slightest contradiction. If beauty had a soundtrack, it would feature tracks by Orange Blossom.