Listening to your Musical Universe

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Rhythmic Presence

Would you like to add a vibrant, rhythmic touch to your musical project?

I offer customized accompaniment using percussion instruments from around the world, such as the djembe, udu, derbouka, congas, and more.

Rhythmic Presence

Would you like to add a vibrant, rhythmic touch to your musical project?

I offer customized accompaniment using percussion instruments from around the world, such as the djembe, udu, derbouka, congas, and more.

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Whether for a concert, a bhajan, a kirtan, a studio recording…
I adapt to your world with listening and sensitivity.
My aim is to create a living, warm and inspiring musical presence that supports and enriches what you wish to build.

Drummer, between stages,
studio and sensitive creations

As a percussionist and bassist, I have participated in diverse projects, including a rock opera titled “Mélodie d’une vie”, French chanson groups, concerts of gentle, contemplative music, bhajans, kirtans, and mantras, as well as studio recordings.

My career has also led me to accompany universal peace dances and “universal Sufism” retreats with the Papillons Voyageurs Association in many places.

I am always attentive to the context and put my playing at the service of the collective with great care for color, silence, and the rightness of the musical moment.

Universal Dances
For Peace

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The Universal Dances of Peace are an invitation to unity through movement, song and presence.

Drawing on spiritual traditions from around the world, they connect us to the sacred within ourselves, to others, and to the Earth.

In a simple circle, we chant mantras, prayers, words of peace,
and dance them, step by step, heart to heart.
This is not a performance, but a living practice: a path of joy, healing and deep connection.

“Through dance, we become song.
Through song, we become prayer.
Through prayer, we become peace.”

No experience is necessary.
Only the desire to walk together towards peace, in and around oneself.

Spontaneous
Duet with Conga

We met and played together.

It was our first duet with Matthieu(*).
We’d only known each other a few minutes.

Let the rhythm flow!

(*) Matthieu is “Matsuko”

Bhajan with Alexandre

Alexandre plays harmonium and sings with his partner.

A high-energy partnership that takes you into the sacred heart of bhajan.

Chant soins
by Mahana

It was a great privilege to play with Mahana.

Just before the concert, we spent a few minutes choosing the instruments for each song together, which was a beautiful moment of musical connection.

Ravima, a vocal trio,
a trio of hearts!

Concert des trois membres de Ravima

RAVIMA is a trio of voices and hearts united by a shared purpose: to offer a living space for prayer, presence, and  transformation.

A Belgian singer and dancer, a Franco-Italian singer-guitarist, and a Franco-American percussionist, bassist, and singer weave together music that is intimate, expressive, and deeply soulful.

 

The name RAVIMA, derived from Sanskrit roots,
evokes the sun, life, and Mother Earth.

It carries the momentum of a connection between heaven and earth,
between the human and the Divine,
between sound vibration and inner silence.

 

Their musical world is rooted primarily in the tradition of mantras—particularly those of India—to which they add original compositions of varied hues, carrying a message of unity and consciousness.

The voices echo one another,

the guitar provides the foundation,

the percussion and bass anchor the sound:

a living wave unfolds, simple and profound.

 

A RAVIMA concert is both:
listening and participation,
a timeless moment
where the audience is invited to sing, breathe, and feel,
like a healing bath of sound that nourishes the soul, soothes the heart, and awakens the consciousness.

Without dogma or rhetoric, their music acts as a presence: warm, luminous, essential.

 

A space to settle in.
To connect.
To remember.