Mokado

Mokado at Le Marché Gare

From our stage at Le Marché Gare, we are excited to welcome Mokado for a live experience that matches the spirit of our venue: intimate, precise, and resolutely contemporary. The project’s signature fusion of acoustic percussion and electronic architecture flourishes in our room, where the clarity of mallets on pads, the warmth of analog textures, and the pulse of finely tuned low end can fully breathe. We prepare the space so you can stand close to the action and feel the conversation between rhythm and melody travel through the hall, from the first shimmering arpeggio to the last resonant hit. Mokado’s visual identity—sleek, sculptural, and minimal—meets a stage design tailored to our dimensions, inviting the audience into an immersive flow that moves seamlessly from meditative passages to eruptive, dance-forward sequences. It’s a show designed for listeners who love detail and for dancers who crave momentum, and our team shapes every cue to highlight both, ensuring that each transition lands with intention.

Artistic momentum, live precision, and a tour refined for Lyon

Mokado arrives in Lyon in a moment of artistic momentum, with fresh material, refined arrangements, and an expanded approach to the live set that deepens the dialogue between percussive performance and electronic storytelling. Recent studio sessions and collaborative projects have sharpened the palette: crystalline synth lines, hand-played rhythms, and evolving harmonic layers that give the music a cinematic lift without losing club energy. The live rig—hybrid drums, mallet controllers, samplers, and carefully routed effects—has been rebuilt to allow more improvisation, unlocking spontaneous swells, breaks, and call-and-response structures that our sound system can render with nuance. Expect a dramaturgy that unfolds in acts: delicate introductions that reveal the grain of each instrument, a central arc where polyrhythms collide with luminous pads, and a finale that embraces catharsis. For this stop at Le Marché Gare, Mokado has shaped transitions to resonate with our room’s contours, favoring wide dynamics, clean transients, and enveloping sub that carries emotion as much as impact.

Our team prepares every detail so Mokado’s performance can reach its full expressive range. Front-of-house engineers calibrate the arrays to keep the percussive attack crisp while preserving warmth around the midrange, giving space to the live mallets and the overtones they generate. Lighting is mapped to the set’s architecture—no gratuitous flash, just purposeful strokes that mirror rhythmic shifts and harmonic changes. We’ve kept sightlines clear across the floor so you can witness the interplay of hands and hardware, the small gestures that make this music feel human even when it surges toward the mechanical. The flow of the evening at Le Marché Gare is designed to draw you in early: an atmosphere that encourages listening before lifting into movement, a communal pocket where each drop lands like a shared breath. For us, hosting Mokado means bringing an artist who values craftsmanship and feeling to a room built to honor both—an invitation to experience percussion as narrative, electronics as touch, and a Lyon audience as an essential instrument in the mix.