Ouverture du festival JEST - Jamais d'Eux Sans Toi
New creations, emerging and established artists, and an edition that makes the Petit Cab—Europe’s first energy-independent venue—its home for much of the festival. We’ll be there. What about you?
Sat, 21 Nov 2026Evening
About this event
The JEST festival is a new kind of artistic gathering, with high artistic standards, taking place across several venues in Marseille.
Founded in 2021, JEST is a major event rooted in its region that helps revive social, human and community-minded connections.
JEST is also a space for dialogue and listening that turns the artistic experience into a framework for sharing knowledge.
The programme brings together new creations by artists taking part in the Be On support programme and work by experienced artists.
Saturday, November 21 · Cité de la Musique - L’échelle des ancêtres
The festival opens at the Auditorium de la Cité de la Musique with Kaito Winse (Burkina Faso). Having left his home village for Brussels, where he founded the griot-punk-noise collective Avalanche Kaito, he returns to the stage alone with voice, percussion, Fula flute and mouth bow. He invites a local choir to join him, and sums up his programme in one sentence: “unearth the bones of our ancestors and turn them into a ladder”. He is followed by The Sea Around Us, a quartet building the soundtrack to a country that does not exist. These musicians invent a utopian geography: two ways of questioning memory.
Kaito Winse - Solo (Burkina Faso)
Kaito Winse draws his music from his home village in Burkina Faso, but it had to travel. After leaving for Brussels, he founded Avalanche Kaito, a griot-punk-noise collision that has electrified stages across Europe. In solo performance, voice, percussion, Fula flute, mouth bow, dance, proverbs and ancient words become the instruments of a more inward journey. Kaito doesn’t just sing in front of the audience: he takes them along, speaks to them, gets them to respond and invites a local choir to join him on his Sentiers lumineux. His programme? Nothing less than “unearth the bones of our ancestors and turn them into a ladder”. A curious way of looking back in order to climb higher. [ voice, percussion, Fula flute, mouth bow ] Co-produced with the Cité de la Musique de Marseille
The Sea Around Us - Antitopèia (France, Kazakhstan, Switzerland)
With João Orecchia, Mario Marchisella, Saadet Türköz, Gilles Furtwängler Moving between improvisation and composition, The Sea Around Us is a radical, multi-continental project that builds soundscapes of imaginary places. Poetic dissonances, tactile textures and cinematic visions shape the music of a place that does not exist, yet one we can still visit. Originally a duo, the group became a quartet with Antipopèia: four musicians transcending geographical, musical and conceptual boundaries to conjure an impossible map where ancestral memories mingle with the imagination of a fiercely explosive futuristic cinema. A soundtrack for a country that cannot be found, waiting to be explored without a compass. [ bass clarinet, electronics - João Orecchia ; drums, electronics - Mario Marchisella ; voice - Saadet Türköz & Gilles Furtwängler ]
More information at lejest.fr
