Emmanuelle Troy and Luc Girardeau, who meet under the name of Trans-Eurasians, are tireless travellers on the roads of Eastern music – from the Mediterranean to the borders of Asia. With an extremely communicative passion, they explore these fascinating «soul songs» and, equipped with their own cultural and musical background, offer a contemporary and personal reinterpretation.
It is to their own inner journey that they invite us, a great journey, a progressive journey from the West to the East, between European, Jewish, Arab, Persian and Asian heritage.
From Sephardic Spain to Mongolia, via Greece, Turkey, Kurdistan, Georgia, Armenia, Iran, Central Asia, Tibet, China, they follow in the footsteps of Marco Polo and other great travellers – adventurers of the Silk Road.
A travel book of high flight, mixing music, readings and video, on roads of explorations, exchanges, exiles too. Far from any tourist exoticism, in resonance with history and with current events, it is here a question of oral transmission, shared curiosity and emotion, and beyond the borders, of the place made to the other.