Yom & The Wonder Rabbis debut album With Love was released in 2011. At the time, the project clearly marked the rise of a new stage and a new generation of musicians producing a music that unashamedly blended their passions for music from elsewhere, surprising and different, with a claimed pop-culture. Their return next season unequivocally reprojects this step towards the dancefloors and conjoint the virtuosity that has made the clarinetist's reputation.

Hildegarde Von Bingen (1098-1179) is certainly one of the most extraordinary and accomplished female figures of the Middle Ages. A Benedictine nun, abbess, mystic, woman of letters and science, musician... She left a rather enigmatic and marginal text called "lingua ignota", an unknown language, composed of about a thousand words.

Yom’s first venture into composition for strings was marked by “Le Silence de l’Exode”. After that it was only logical that he should turn to the string quartet – so important in Western art music, as exemplified by composers from Mozart to Bartok, Ligeti to Schubert, – which offers boundless possibilities for exploring sound textures.

In this unusual duo for clarinet and organ, Yom, a specialist in the music of the Ashkenazi Jews of Eastern Europe, joins forces with Baptiste-Florian Marle-Ouvrard, who is head organist of St Eustache in Paris, the biggest organ in France, and is an international concert artist as well as a church musician.

One of them is from China, a self-taught Jew's harp player who plays exclusively solo. The other, a clarinettist, was born in Paris where he studied at the Conservatoire; his group plays Jewish music from the East, but not only that.
Having tamed such different Orients, Yom and Wang Li have created their own music-lexicon, neither Sino-Jewish nor Judeo-Chinese, but resolutely traditional, definitely contemporary, and definitively respectful.