Media
Live Setup
| Unplugged | No |
| Cover band | No |
| Members | 9 |
| Nov / 2017 | • | Scène nationale de Sète | Sète | |||
| Nov / 2017 | • | Le Chai du Terral | Montpellier | |||
| Apr / 2017 | • | The Black Sheep | Montpellier | |||
| Mar / 2016 | • | DJAM | Paris | |||
| Mar / 2016 | • | Carreau du Temple | Le Carreau du Temple, Paris, FR | |||
| Mar / 2016 | • | Escuela moderna de musica | Girone | |||
| Mar / 2016 | • | Meet X | Bruxelles | |||
| Oct / 2015 | • | Jazzèbre Festival | Perpignan | |||
| Jul / 2015 | • | Domaine d'O | Montpellier | |||
| May / 2015 | • | Le JAM - Release album concert | Montpellier | |||
| Jul / 2014 | • | Jazz à Junas - Festival | Junas | |||
| Jul / 2014 | • | Festival Radio France de Montpellier | Montpellier | |||
| Jul / 2014 | • | Festival Radio France de Montpellier | Vigan | |||
| Jul / 2014 | • | Musique au Présent - Festival | Narbonne | |||
| Jul / 2014 | • | Festival Radio France de Montpellier | Brame | |||
| Apr / 2014 | • | Saison culturelle du Théâtre de Mende | Mende | |||
| Apr / 2014 | • | Sunset - Sunside | Sunset-Sunside, Paris, FR | |||
| Dec / 2013 | • | Le Périscope | Lyon | |||
| Nov / 2013 | • | Le Comptoir du jazz | Bordeaux | |||
| Nov / 2013 | • | Le Mandala | Toulouse | |||
| Nov / 2013 | • | La Tannerie | Agen |
| Label / Release | Type | Year | |
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| Collectif Koa | |||
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BEAT | Album | 2018 |
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Koa-Roi | Album | 2012 |
| Arbalète / Collectif Koa | |||
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Ahimsa | Album | 2015 |
It was initiated by the bass player and compositor Alfred Vilayleck. As they created the band the musicians founded the Collectif Koa, which enabled the musicians to share many live experiences and decisive artistic meetings.
In 2010, Grand Ensemble Koa worked on a creation inspired by Alfred Jarry’s Ubu-Roi, made of contemporary composition, satirical theatre and soundpainting. The disc « Koa- Roi » was released in 2012, and has been elected « Jazz album revelation » by Jazzman magazine in February 2013. Pascal Rozet has written about it : « A fully accomplished first opus, which strucks by its coherence. »
In 2013, in a 9 musicians formation, the band released « Ahîmsa » -new repertoire- and performed live in many venues as the Carreau du Temple in Paris. The next year, the band collaborated with the belgian collective Mäâk Spirit, and they created together « Koa Meet Mäâk ».
Nowadays, it is 1 voice and 8 instruments which transform into music the texts, poems, and message of a generation who looked for freedom, the one of Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg or William Burroughs...