La Valise + Seesayle Quartet

La Valise is a female duo performing acoustic ethnofolk songs and music based in Liège. The group was formed in 2018 by Marie Zinnen (violin, vocals) and Fanny Vadjaraganian (accordion, vocals), two lovers of languages and world music. Their repertoire grows with each new encounter, combining original compositions with traditional songs

Although French-speaking, they sing in Bulgarian, Swedish, Macedonian, Romani, Spanish, English, Russian, Turkish, and of course Walloon! They enjoy playing with polyphony, accompanying themselves on their instruments or with body percussion. After a first eponymous album in 2019 and Train de Nuit in 2021, the group released their third album, Inside, in 2025.

They sing and play with raw emotion, talking about their loves, their follies, their anger, their joys, their memories, their hopes and their dreams with very delicate music, whispered in your ear like a secret made of lace.

A love of travel and the musicality of languages have inspired their multilingual songwriting. Their original compositions are written in French, English, German, Spanish and Réunion Creole.

Come and open La Valise and settle comfortably into this cocoon of gentleness, good humour and complicity.

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Composer and multi-instrumentalist Seesayle draws inspiration from a diverse range of musical genres (post-rock, folk, neo-classical, jazz, trip-hop) to create dreamy post-folk dream pop, sometimes inspired by the seventies, resulting in her fourth album: ‘Streams’.

Streams tells an intimate epic tale that reveals, in turn, the staggering emptiness of false dreams, a surge of curiosity and openness, and an irrepressible desire to take risks and venture into the unknown. The mainstream of our world offers disappointing magic, and its cardboard circus atmosphere of cheap dreams awakens a need to listen to other flows, other streams.

In concert, Seesayle's music is performed by a quartet featuring:

Seesayle – drums, vocals, piano, clarinet

Valérie Mathieu – ukulele, keyboard, vocals

Jean-François Lucas – bass, keyboard

Bernard Gabus – guitar, drums, vocals