Mohamed El Khatib is Mucem’s guest artist for the 2023 season.
With his Renault 12 installation, he pays homage to the thousands of North African families who, from the 70s to the 90s, criss-crossed France and Spain every summer by car, right up to the ferries that took them to the Maghreb, to the lands of their origins…
To bring this installation to life, Mohamed El Khatib creates the 504 performance.
Among the founding myths deeply linked to the Mediterranean, the return to Ithaca is a historical motif that is constantly replayed. Mohamed El Khatib invites Marseilles residents aboard the legendary Peugeot 504 to reconsider the theme of the return to one’s homeland as part of the Mediterranean’s intangible heritage.
A film, a theatrical happening and a concert will celebrate these mechanical and sentimental epics.
Bar and catering provided by Les Grandes Tables in Place d’Armes.
Program:
Friday, September 29 – 504 (performance) and Benzine (concert)
Benzine draws its inspiration from Algeria’s Bedouin poetry, which it transforms into a fissile synth-raï that smells of exhaust fumes from the streets of Sidi Bel Abbes.
Formed by Farid Belayat and Samir Mohellebi, the duo deploys sounds embroidered with synthesizer, drum machine, bass, guitar and a bass bowl of West Algerian instruments (sampled for the occasion) to plunge you into a rendering as frenetic as driving an Oranese cab at rush hour: tense, trance-like and danceable. Their debut album “Nawri” (which means “budding”) was released on March 21 on the La Navette label.
Farid Belayat: vocals, bass, machines
Samir Mohellebi: vocals, bass, guitar
Saturday, September 30 – 504 (performance) and Mehtoze (DJ set)
Mehtoze is passionate about music of all kinds and groovy nuggets. He is a member of Akademix, the Marseilles-based DJ school founded by Dj Djel (Fonky Family), with whom he trained in the art of the turntable.
Mohamed El Khatib is Mucem’s guest artist for the 2023 season.
With his Renault 12 installation, he pays homage to the thousands of North African families who, from the 70s to the 90s, criss-crossed France and Spain every summer by car, right up to the ferries that took them to the Maghreb, to the lands of their origins…
To bring this installation to life, Mohamed El Khatib creates the 504 performance.
Among the founding myths deeply linked to the Mediterranean, the return to Ithaca is a historical motif that is constantly replayed. Mohamed El Khatib invites Marseilles residents aboard the legendary Peugeot 504 to reconsider the theme of the return to one’s homeland as part of the Mediterranean’s intangible heritage.
A film, a theatrical happening and a concert will celebrate these mechanical and sentimental epics.
Bar and catering provided by Les Grandes Tables in Place d’Armes.
Program:
Friday, September 29 – 504 (performance) and Benzine (concert)
Benzine draws its inspiration from Algeria’s Bedouin poetry, which it transforms into a fissile synth-raï that smells of exhaust fumes from the streets of Sidi Bel Abbes.
Formed by Farid Belayat and Samir Mohellebi, the duo deploys sounds embroidered with synthesizer, drum machine, bass, guitar and a bass bowl of West Algerian instruments (sampled for the occasion) to plunge you into a rendering as frenetic as driving an Oranese cab at rush hour: tense, trance-like and danceable. Their debut album “Nawri” (which means “budding”) was released on March 21 on the La Navette label.
Farid Belayat: vocals, bass, machines
Samir Mohellebi: vocals, bass, guitar
Saturday, September 30 – 504 (performance) and Mehtoze (DJ set)
Mehtoze is passionate about music of all kinds and groovy nuggets. He is a member of Akademix, the Marseilles-based DJ school founded by Dj Djel (Fonky Family), with whom he trained in the art of the turntable.
