Lo Còr de la Plana (pronounced "loo quar dey la plan") is a Marseilles' choir from the "La Plaine" quarter—six hectic singers accompanied by percussions (bendirs and tamburello), handclapping and foot-stomping. Founded in 2001, the group devoted itself to the systematic re-creation of the popular Occitan patrimony — that is, the songs, sayings, proverbs and tales of the Occitan language.

Their feverish, polyphonic singing covers all repertoires, religious or unbridled, repetitive or spontaneous, and all of which are often performed at the same time! In actual fact, these singers go everywhere, to churches, factories, bars or theaters, and do not hesitate to mix the baffling paganism of ancient Occitan heritage with the concerns of Marseilles' musicians of today.

They deny no influence, from Bartok to the Massilia Sound System, no origin, from Oran to Le Rove, their only concern being to detonate, reverberate and rave into their music all that their city and the surrounding world give them to hear. A police siren, a new-born child, the remnants of a paradise or of the fantasy of a paradise, a party with too much booze, sheep, wolves, and, to make a long story short, the peaceful and intoxicating fury of everyday life!