Paco Sery

Fellow traveller of the legendary Joe Zawinul, drummer praised by Jaco Pastorius and Wayne Shorter, Paco Sery could have - or one may say, should have - moved to the USA to complete his growing reputation of being "the best drummer in the world". But it neither was the destiny nor the concern of this drummer from the Ivory Coast who an even more crucial meeting in his younger days - the one with the organ player Eddy Louiss, will definitely attach to France.

France is therefore where Paco Sery first got known and where he set up the mythical fusion band Sixun, the incandescent war machine that set the pace of a devastating groove made of the meeting of what the 3 contintents - Africa, Europe and America - have of most telluric.