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Facteur Sauvage

News

New creation 2024 " (Augmented) Facteur Sauvage " with Aymeric Avice (trumpet) and Aymeric Descharrières (saxophones).

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Discography

Line-up

Laurent Paris : prepared drums
Mathieu Sourisseau : bass guitar
Daniel Scalliet : voice

Press review

Facteur Sauvage

Facteur Sauvage, musical anomaly, poetic virus, self-made sound. A raw, compact trio. A sound straight from the tubes of homemade amplification, carried by a voice heated to white. Spoken word or song, the words bounce off a prepared bass and drums section, fed by primitive blues and rock.

In concert, Facteur Sauvage gently grabs us by the ear and gradually shakes us until we end up sweating. A warm-blooded animal, the trio kicks up clouds of dust between tender and wild tracks. Their music creates an evocative, almost narrative or cinematographic atmosphere, taking us on an initiatory road movie, between smoky bars and endearing fairground characters...

Willy Wolf, l'homme qui va mourir (2019)

In 2019, Facteur Sauvage has plunged headlong into the creation of a new work inspired by the Nantes character and urban myth of Willy Wolf. Willy Wolf, a self-proclaimed world champion diver, made his living by selling postcards of himself posing with a skull and a crossbones and an unsparing invitation: "Buy the man who is going to die". He invited locals with a taste for physical prowess and reckless danger to perform feats that would make him a trompe l'oeil. That's how he became known in the city of Nantes. On 31 May 1925, at the age of 27, he stood on the bridge of the Nantes Transbordeur in front of 50,000 spectators. After a few balancing acts above the void, he ignited his belt and jumped 55 metres... The crowd and the Gaumont theatre, present for this unique event, witnessed a living death. The living torch became a comet and the comet disappeared into the Loire. A myth was born.

But did Willy Wolf die that day? Or did he go on to other underwater adventures? For Facteur Sauvage, this story is more than just a news item. The spectacle of death is of little importance. It's the impulse of this son of Polish immigrants, a fitter by trade, a dreamy acrobat, a braggart in the markets, that appeals. He tells us something else. A little man who stands up to his humanity. A story to be told again and again. A dream that corrects the world of reality.

Facteur Sauvage has taken on the task of writing music and shouting from the rooftops around Willy Wolf, creating new pieces based on the film of this story. It's a kind of imaginary cinema concert in which a sparse instrumentarium and an eager audience must join forces in a communion of rage. The aim is to bring out this man's rage for life, his taste for risk, his enchanting poetry, his conquest of courage and the whole range of possibilities...

Une production Freddy Morezon. Avec le soutien de la DRAC Occitanie, du Conseil Régional Occitanie et du CNV.

Etenesh Wassié Trio

Tour

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    Etenesh Wassié Trio – REPORTÉ -

    Kaap, Ostende, Belgique
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  • 24
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    Cité de la Musique, Marseille
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News

European tour dates from November 2024
Release of a new opus 1st quarter 2025

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Discography

Line-up

Etenesh Wassié : voice
Mathieu Sourisseau : acoustic bass
Sebastien Bacquias : double bass

Etenesh Wassié Trio

éthio trad – folk-blues

Since their encounter in 2007, Mathieu Sourisseau and Etenesh Wassié share a great artistic complicity. The source for their music lies in traditional Ethiopian songs, revisited through playing styles and melodies that cloud the tracks. Etenesh’s wild and secret voice carries us away. Mathieu’s bass play, crossed by several worlwide influences, carries us away. It is an intense emotionally piercing trip. They continue their journey with the double bassist Sébastien Bacquias. The warmth of the double bass and the profoundness of the acoustic bass unite perfectly with the deep tone of Éténèsh’s voice. The crossing of strings forms a sonorous mat from which new melodies emerge, reminding the watermark of the Ethiopian forms. We can feel rock, jazz, improvised music and world music influences. A universe where this unique voice can self-express in all freedom. The bow of the double bass also reminds of the messenqo, a traditional Ethiopian mono-string-violon that accompanies all the heritage songs, such as Ambassel, Tezeta and Bati, in which Etenesh excels.

No way to deny the Ethiopian roots of the music played by Etenesh Wassié, Mathieu Sourisseau and Sébastien Bacquias. But this trio is playing on a much wider territory. Far from the glitz of an off-ground thought world music. What is well invented here in this delicate combination of these three artists is raised from the friction of ethio-trad with noise textures, from the consummate art of the folk nostalgia with the scansions and backing up solid grooves. The purpose of the trio is probably not the song but, more certainly, the six-handed story that the two musicians and the singer assemble in live. A upmost moving story shaped by this music : familiar in its magic and hybrid in its instrumentation. In March 2018, a double bass was added to the lyrical booms of the original duo, born in 2009 from the combination of a voice and an electro-acoustic bass. And this transplant is successful. The low register, over-represented, does not provoke any endless manly debate. In fact, reciprocal comments such as the solos of the eight strings of the pair Sourisseau/Bacquias push Etenesh Wassié's voice to its limits. From his perfect technique, from his majestic cracks to his poetic statements full of bright energy that could be compared to a form of rage. A rage that could’ve been magnified by Bessie Smith or Abbey Lincoln. Then, a traditional form like the Tezeta catches up with the field of blues and, therefore, African-American jazz.

Videos

Les Mamies Guitares

Intervenants

Mathieu Sourisseau : guitare
Ronan Mancec : écriture

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Interview sur France Inter de Mathieu Sourisseau par Dorothée Barba pour l'émission Carnets de campagne
Interview France Inter - juin 2024

Liens

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Livret "Manifeste de la nouvelle république des Mamies Guitares" 
Retour en textes et en images sur l'expérience des Mamies Guitares à Toulouse (2014), Brest (2015) et Dijon (2016). Livret réalisé par Patrick Girot et financé par La Vapeur.

Les Mamies Guitares

performance artistique participative

Les Mamies Guitares est un projet de performance artistique participative qui mêle guitare électrique et écriture avec des seniors non-professionnelles.

Ce projet a pour objectif la réalisation d’une œuvre collective sonore grâce à plusieurs rencontres autour de la guitare électrique et de l’écriture. Pendant cinq jours d’ateliers, 7 femmes seniors « non musiciennes » collaborent avec Mathieu Sourisseau et Ronan Mancec. Elles prennent part ainsi au processus de création d’une performance sonore. À l’issue de ces journées d’ateliers, une représentation publique est donnée.

Sur scène, les participantes formulent avec dignité et humour des récits de vie, imaginaire ou vécue, entre vérité et mensonge. Il est question de l’empreinte que nous laissons ou que nous fantasmons. « Nous sommes des femmes du XXIème siècle. À la lumière du passé, c’est un présent que nous écrivons ensemble et un avenir que nous rêvons, à grands coups de guitare électrique ! ».

Mathieu Sourisseau et Ronan Mancec accompagnent ces dames de A à Z dans la réalisation d'une performance sur mesure. Ils modulent chaque version des Mamies Guitares en fonction des besoins de chaque participante, pas toujours à l’aise avec l’idée de prendre la parole en public. Ainsi le projet conjugue lien social, rigueur artistique et pratique facilitée de la musique.

Références

Plusieurs éditions ont eu lieu avec différents groupes de femmes :
Septembre 2014 • Toulouse // Novembre 2015 et 2016 • Brest • Festival Invisible // Avril 2016 • Dijon • La Vapeur // Février 2017 • Vallauris // Mars 2017 • Roques-sur-Garonne // Octobre 2017 • Rennes • Les Tombées de la Nuit // Juin 2018 • Poitiers • Festival Bruisme // Janvier 2019 • Toulouse • MJC Roguet // Septembre et octobre 2021 • Perpignan • Festival Jazzèbre // Mars 2022 • Grenoble • La Belle Électrique // Avril 2022 • Bordeaux • Einstein on the beach // Novembre 2022 • Ardèche • SMAC 07 // Avril 2023 • Banlieues Bleues • Pantin // Juin 2023 • Chato’do • Villesavin // Novembre 2023 • Maison des mémoires de Septfonds // Mars 2024 • Cœur de Garonne // Novembre 2024 La Soufflerie, Scène conventionnée Rezé // Mars 2025 L'Arsenic, Gindou ...

Vidéos

Galerie

Illustrations de Patrick Girot - extraites du livret réalisé en partenariat avec La Vapeur (Dijon)