Correo Saliente, literally « outgoing mail », indicates the moment when a message is sent and the journey it makes to reach its final destination. It’s a moment of hope, of eagerness to meet (again), to feel, to surprise, to understand each other.

The duo Correo Saliente is born in 2013 from the collaboration between the cellist Léa Besançon and the guitarist Kamal Abdul-Malak. At first centered on the original repertoire for cello and guitar, the duo progressively made its own way with personal arrangements and transcriptions. Making no artificial separation between classical and popular music, Correo Saliente frequently goes from one style to the other, in order to give a new life to some of the finest treasures of Latin-american and Iberian music. Having this freedom to not depend on written original scores, the two musicians focuses on feeling and transmitting the deep emotions that emerges from pieces and songs by legendary artists, such as Amália Rodrigues (Portugal), Carlos Gardel, Astor Piazzolla, Atahualpa Yupanqui, Alberto Ginastera (Argentina), Manuel De Falla (Spain), Heitor Villa-Lobos, Antonio Carlos Jobim (Brazil)... Through these musics, Correo Saliente evokes timeless places and feelings : love, seduction, bitterness, anger, mockery, a secret, a memory, a landscape, a party, dancers, a lively neighborhood, a morning market, the excitement of a carnival, the hard peasant life, the pleasures of a city nightlife, the heartbreaks of war and exile… Correo Saliente’s approach goes beyond the simple interpretation of chosen pieces. It’s kind of a re-creation, re-reading of musical archives through original arrangements made with four hands. It’s also a way to renew the image of the guitar, as well as that of the cello, far from the clichés : Correo Saliente is a meeting between two beautiful instruments set on an equal footing, interacting and exploring unexpected pathways.