The artist, who is in her mid-30s, mostly focuses on overcoming traditional notions of aesthetics and on developing her own idiosyncratic ideas of beauty. (...) Spoken at breakneck speed, her tirades rain on the audience in staccato-like form. The BAA BOX performative hyperactivity is offset by polyphonic chants which are spell-binding in yet another novel way.
It’s good to hear the human voice, whether electronically enhanced or not, being taken into such adventurous areas and to hear it being done with such musicality.
Leïla Martial is one of the masters of precious instrument : a voice with unlimited creativity
Sorbet for the ears
- about FIL
She proved to be beyond all genres: an essential improviser. (...) an uninhibited ball of energy, laughing with her band mates and at herself. As an introductory performance in the UK, the show was a success. Martial provides an improvised music with a French edge, something that is harder to find over here.