The new team of the Voyageurs de BAMBOO ORCHESTRA is compound of young percussionist musicians able to play very different repertoires. In this show,they developed the visual aspect integrating the motion. They put in space and motion some of their compositions, exploiting bamboo's shapes and sonorities.

… The festival has been intelligently installed,the programming direction take in the regional musical resources the opening bands'exotism. Makoto Yabuki, with an engineer formation has created a forest of instruments with natural virtues,exclusively planned with bamboo. In Marseille since 1994, he set workshops and this Longchamp's stage gave an original projection to him, the possibility of coming to the meeting of a public much larger than the only Japanese culture fans. Saturday night, "les Voyageurs de Bamboo Orchestra" began by a percussive avalanche. In the center of the stage,they attack in a heart beat whidh goes crescendo, the master and his four companions scans enigmatic syntagms in proportion as the shocks become more and more powerful. They go on and finish in unison behind thunders of applause. Clearly the public picks up this strange energy and hasn't been disapointed by this rough sound, as the exhortation and the gathering of energies would be convoked to a same organic point.
This initial thunder reduplication is just an introduction,then the musical pieces played better correspond to the idea we have about quiet mornings' exquisite luxuriance. And we have been readily guided by Makoto and his flute, as the God Pan, installing a rapturous climate in which the melodic wind-instrument with a pure sound is brought by the aquatic and fluted bass used by his assistants who control curious xylophones or balafons. These sweet and strange resonances evoke zen gardens and their wealth springs with lukewarm steams in the frozen mountain…