Appearances can be misleading, sometimes very much so. Take Shamania – you’d think it’s a little Shamanic guide, wouldn’t you? Well it isn’t – not quite. Shamania is a community. A female, ritual, organic, wild community. A micro-nation of musicians brought together by Marilyn Mazur, a remarkable musician who is still too little known in France in spite of illustrious collaborations with Miles Davis, Gil Evans, Jan Garbarek and John Tchicai.

Mazur, who has had a triple life – as a hitter, a dancer and a performer – now reactivates with Shamania the driving principle of her Primi Band, a girls’ band created in 1983, the golden age of European musical theater.

Just as mysterious and lyrical as the original Primi Band used to be, Mazur’s new formation allows her to revisit her compositions while still striving to create a lively, warm music, feeding on ageless, limitless energies – a music literally worth gold.