Music meets poetry with French gypsy guitarist Titi Robin

Thierry "Titi" Robin is one of France’s finest guitar, bouzouki and oud players. He began playing "crossover" in the '70s before so-called world music became a genre. "[World music] is pure fantasy", he says. "If it does exist, then Chopin and Bach made it too." Titi Robin talks to RFI about his gypsy roots, being a self-taught musician "with a thousand teachers", and the joys of working alongside actor Michael Lonsdale on his latest album L’Ombre d’une Source.

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Titi Robin plays the Eurofonik Festival in Nantes on 11 April.