From the organzer: The French Institute of Ho Chi Minh City proudly presents the live performance of French jazz trio The Drops, their very first in Vietnam and second in the region of Southeast Asia. The program is the next offering of The Institute in presenting the finest of young talents coming out of the Francophone communities across the world, whose music defines and defies borders, to the audiences of Vietnam.

The Drops began at the end of 2008 in Paris by two musical friends and professional partners Panzani and Casagrande who want to further their energies into a new and different musical project. Gaining their influences from rock and pop, the two incorporate them, with ease, to their jazz language accentuated by their acclaimed debut album “Falling from the sky” recorded in New York in September 2009 and released the following year by Paris-based Hyenas Records. In November of 2010, they did a release tour in France and Italy and recorded their 2nd album Spray on the road (released in 2013). Since 2011, the duo was officially joined force by the French prodigious drummer Gautier Garrigue and the trio, never looking back, have since graced the soils of Italy, France, Ukraine, Bulgaria, Macedonia, Belgium, Germany, Portugal, China and Taiwan. In January 2015, they released their first live album LIVE IN PARIS. In French tradition, The Drops romantically employs a metaphor by their name, considering each human being of individuality and being part of a single cosmic flux, like “a drop of water loses its own boundaries once it is in the sea but it stills exists”

For more information about The Drops, please visit www.thedrops.net