Le dernier CD, Tango Bayashi

• Tango Bayashi : On a cherry blossom spring day, the musical festivities begin. It's a joyful dance. A chindon-ya* plays Tango Bayashi, which deliciously pleases their ears. It's the marriage of Tango and traditional festive music: it's one of the original styles of Melting Pot.
• Tango Sumo : Snow softly and silently lands on the mountain tops, like the melancholic and distant gaze of the Sumotori onto his adversary before the fight. The wrestlers are facing each other, the fight begins and turns into a sensual tango.
• Japonimusette : It is another original style of Melting Pot. Hiroko learned how to play musette in Paris. She has performed it in her native Japan. Over there, the dancers wear kimono. When performing on the Okinawa tropical island, the French dance, for a time, loses it and fools around on the place's particular beat.
• Sushi Bar : When the musicians of the group land in Japan, they joyously rush to the sushi bar. They are eager to immerse themselves into a Japanese ambiance, and the "irashai" who welcomes them at the restaurant's door looks like an invitation to pleasure.
• Ijanaika : This means "why not!" This piece was inspired by Shoei Imamura's movie Ejanaika. In the movie, villagers dance to resist dictatorship rather than resorting to weapons. They hope that peace will hear them.
• Yufuin : Going from the Oita airport to Yufuin in a ramshackle bus. Upon arrival, a delicious dip in an onsen* while looking at the mountain.
• Higanbana : It's the Higan festival, when the souls of the dead are joyously welcomed with flowers and food. Then they proceed to the family house where memories of old times are evoked. After the feast, they withdraw in a gentle dance.
• Kaleidoscope : Like in the universe of the film director Miyazaki, the worlds of the real and the invisible meet in an entanglement of colors. Like in real life, plans crisscross and superimpose each other, and sometimes meet.
• Nostal'Ondo :At first, a dance on the somewhat melancholic beat of Japan's Eastern coast. Then the whirl speeds up and becomes more frenzied. Some day, maybe, a Bon* festival will be held in the Place de la Concorde in Paris.
• Okinawa : This piece conjures up the balmy winds of that tropical island, where life is sweet and slow. The Bolero swing wraps the so peculiar tunes from this small, wave-cuddled piece of the world.
• Matsuri Parade : A samurai warrior sets off on horseback to see how people of the outside world feast and celebrate. He leaves from Tsugaru, in the North, where music sounds so rough, and his travels lead him to Rio de Janeiro via Africa. ...
• Onsen : At dawn, when the sun shines through the leaves, one happily plods along in wooden sandals, wearing the yukata*. Then one relaxes in the warm spring waters. A bird sits immobile on a branch.
• Errance : In Japan, it is said that when you pass away, there's a path down to a river where you must embark. Errance is that path.

• Chindon-ya : A group of musicians wearing eccentric costumes, whose role is to herald the grand opening of a new store or similar events.
• Sumotori : That's how sumo wrestlers are called in Japan. Sumo is a traditional form of wrestling which is especially renown for the size of the fighters and the various traditional rituals surrounding the fights. A sumotori can weigh from 70 to 280 kilos. They are coiffed in the chon mage hairstyle: the hair is oiled and smoothed, pulled in the back in a bun. The goal is to eject the adversary out of the fight ring, or make him touch the ground with any body part other the sole of their feet.
• Onsen : The Japanese are fond of hot spring spas, or onsen. Onsen waters are reputed to treat numerous illnesses and a large number of them have become very renown spas.
• lThe Higan festival : This is the seven-day period around both the shunbun-no-hi (the Spring equinox) and the shuubun-no-hi (the Autumn equinox). During ohigan, the Japanese celebrate their dead and pray for their souls.
• The Bon festival : Bon is one of those summer festivals in Japan during which it is customary to make offerings to the ancestors and pray for their souls. It takes place from August 13th to 15th and it is an opportunity to attend the folkloric dance called bon odori, performed in every city, town and village of Japan.
• Yukata : A cotton kimono worn in summer. During festivals, a stage is set up on the town square as a small wooden tower, called Yagura. A Taiko (a big drum) is placed on top of the yagura, and people dance in circle around the Yagura on the beat of the Taiko.