Maninkari is an experimental ambient / psychedelic with highly reference to free folk duo from Paris, Île-de-France, France formed in 2006 (?). The original linuep consists of Olivier Charlot and Frédéric Charlot. Both from instrumental post-rock band Bathyscaphe. Improvisation enables Maninkari to reach points that are more or less abstract or melodic that are sometimes difficult to reach with composition. Of course both can work. Most of the tracks are improvised, arrangements were added to certain parts and also reconstructed, for example “participation mystic”. Several mixes can be reconstructed in different ways; some are left as they are like “ota” which is entirely composed which is proof that it is also a marriage with the sound. They are more inclined to go towards a world where the existence of feelings takes its place and gives a taste for the irrational and this gives them more freedom of expression. Maninkari are not interested in political or social messages. If there is a message it bears more on introspection, towards a search for oneself which is more of a personal quest; it is also has the contradictions which experimentation permits. It is not something that has one purpose, it could take on a spiritual experience, psychological or other aspect. The title of the album “le diable” (the devil) is that forgotten unconscious force, this instinctive part. “les chevaux” (the horses) is the direction that it takes with it. http://www.maninkari.fr