For
17 years, ACOUSTEEL GANG has wandered through thousands of streets, all
of them different, all of them full of ordinary people, shoppers,
festival goers, carnival followers… Its members have created their very
own way of inhabiting this public space, they're gentle and wild,
festive and friendly. The steel drum - coming from petrol industry and
Trinidad people's imagination - is their ally, a metallic and melodious
drum straight from the Caribbean fires, with its unusual and powerful
sound.
Joined in 2005 by a singer-crier with a megaphone, an energetic
showman, the 8 lads revisit and clear away the cobwebs of some
"different" musics and big disco, funk and ska standards… The Acousteel
boys improvise as choral singers, give free rein to a representation of
"Theatre of the South" and reinvent themselves as dancers with
unbridled energy.
With "Melocoton Tour !", the ACOUSTEEL GANG's 5th creation, stirred up
with Frédéric ELKAÏM as a stage director, the Gascon steel band embarks
on a new adventure ! With flowery short-sleeved shirts, mocking "hymno
nacional" and deception, songs and steel drums show hoax and present
dancing surprises. Escaped from their famous island "between Cuba and
Galapagos" (!…), the ACOUSTEEL GANG's boys succeeded in meeting the
famous Pedro de la Playa to go with him on his new journey "Melocoton
Tour !".
With their drums slung over - these instrument in which their ancestors
used to make candy floss -, they take us in nearly a musical, nearly
seen on TV ! Melocoton !