Aptēre

Aptère brings together cellist Lina Belaïd and accordionist Antoine Girard around a shared passion for live and popular music, traditional, contemporary, jazz, Balkan, and musette. The sounds of bowed strings and blown reeds blend and mingle on their playing field. Sensitive compositions and adventurous improvisations reveal rich sonic palettes, haunting rhythms, bold harmonies, and a melodic lyricism imbued with oriental ornamentation.

1st Album Apteroids > release Fall 2025

This first album features personal compositions by Lina Belaïd and Antoine Girard as well as co-compositions. With the singer Climène Zarkan we collaborated on…