Sakina Abdou (born in 1984 in Lille) is a French saxophonist, flautist and plastic artist. She studied the flute (early and contemporary music) and the saxophone (classical/contemporary/jazz) at the Music Academy of Lille and Roubaix. She graduated from the Fine Arts School of Tourcoing and Valenciennes (DNAP, DNSEP) and also has a State Diploma of Music Teacher. Since 1998, she has been a member of various music bands in Lille's area. In parallel to her studies, she has explored free improvisation, experimental and contemporary music within various entities: La Pieuvre orchestra, led by
Olivier Benoit, part of the collective of musicians Muzzix, the band Vazytouille, part of the collective of musicians Zoone Libre, Le Miroir et le Marteau led by rock drummer
Guigou Chenevier, the free rock quintet Eliogabal or the TOC & The Compulsive Brass Band.
Since 2014, she has collaborated with the
Dedalus ensemble to reinterpret the work of american minimalist composers like Philip Glass or
Moondog and has also played with Organik Orkeztra led by the pianist Jeremy Ternoy from Lille and the Basque singer Kristof Hiriart. In 2012, she co-founded Bi-Ki?, a duet with fellow saxophonist Jean-Baptiste Rubin. With a wish to explore acoustic as well as amplified sounds, they teamed up with
Jean-Luc Guionnet to record their first album in 2016. They also collaborate with Simon Henocq during residencies where their work culminates in restitutions that are part live concert, part sound installation, part art performance.
Crossing over many styles, Sakina Abdou is a member of the improvisation trio Abdou Dang Orins and Julien Tortora's sextet Phuisis ( whose creations revolve around French philosopher
Charles Fourier's work). She also took part in film screenings with live music, with Jean-Baptiste Rubin ("Le Bonheur") and Ivan Cruz ("Ciné-concert de papier"). She is also involved in other orchestral projects such as Le Grand Orchestre de Muzzix, Ritual with Organik Orkeztra, the Red Desert Orchestra led by Eve Risser, and Hoketus & Slow Movement (Dedalus/ Muzzix). Her musical activity has led her to collaborate with many artists including Satoko Fujii,
Kasper T. Toeplitz,
Art Zoyd, Raymond Boni, Michael Pisaro,
Anthony Pateras, Tom Johnson...
