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With the heart of musical vitality Tzigane, the Engé group holds a place completely special. At the begining there is the jazz manouche like musical cradle, a controlled contribution which determines the expressivity of the guitars and the melody richness. The oral transmission of the music whose the musicians manouches profited from the group is inherent in this tradition where the Master of the kind, Django Reinhardt has the appearance of an icon. Integrated, this tradition could not be a yoke for the musicians of Engé, avid of creation and conscious that a musical tradition evolves/moves.

Thus since its creation, the orchestra also plays the gypsy musics of Central Europe for the greatest happiness of the amateurs of Czardach Hungarian women, will horas Rumanian and songs traditional Tziganes... Proposing an alive and festive music, the formation forges a solid reputation with a repertory where the swing manouche côtoie Slavic airs.

But the originality and the quality of the formation concern other significant criteria. First of all there is the contribution of creation, with a repertory made up for more half of compositions. Composer-songwriter of the group, works of Engé Helmstetter are French songs and instrumental parts. The texts reflect a sometimes oneiric sometimes realistic universe, speaking as well about love, of music as imaginary voyages (a coffee in the arena, music of the heart, Petite lydia, Plus far...)

Synthesis between the key manouche and the poetic universe of the French song, the estampillées songs "Engé" seem to have qualities of the airs that one does not forget: originality, melody beauty, breath of the imaginary one.

If the Engé formation is incontestably a formation manouche, to summarize it with this only label would be reducing. Like another stage in the voyage, behind the accents Tziganes one guesses in filigree of the obvious Latin influences drawn in particular from worked-nova and the Catalan rumba. Between standards of the kind and permanent creation, the repertory of Engé allures the amateurs of gypsy musics or jazz manouche as well as the people sensitive to the innovation.

Their music is at the same time erudite and popular, accessible and virtuoso, ideal for all the ears and all the ages. This is why, the concert of Engé are as well adapted to large scene festival as with environments intimists of the café concert.