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Facteur Sauvage (Augmenté)

Line-up

Daniel SCALLIET : voix
Mathieu SOURISSEAU : guitare basse
Laurent PARIS : batterie préparée
Aymeric AVICE : trompette
Aymeric DESCHARRIERES : saxophone baryton

Contacts

Booking François Montjosieu // francois{a}freddymorezon.org
Artistique Daniel Scalliet // danielscalliet{a}gmail.com

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Facteur Sauvage (Augmenté)

rock incarné

Création 2024

  Facteur Sauvage (Augmented) is an electric animal, made to blend sweat and poetry. The quintet draws on a raw sound mixing primitive rock and alternative blues. The two horns that have joined the original trio both bolster its relentless riffs and unleash wild improvisations.

Whatever ground they choose to explore, these five musicians bring with them a wealth of diverse experience from the independent scene, whether rooted in garage rock, free jazz or spoken word. Sung, chanted, recited or whispered, the words conjure up Anglo-Saxon imagery alongside poems delivered in their original French. Language takes its place at the table, in barns and clubs where the lines between a dance-driven set and poetry made for listening are joyfully blurred.

Facteur Sauvage (Augmented) seeks meaning through literature made flesh, propelled by bass guitar, prepared drums and blasts of breath, all moving as one — radically raw and radically tender.

“Don’t fall asleep until you’re dead,” went the original motto. “And don’t look back: we are she-wolves and wolves, hungry for love.”

The quintet is on a sonic mission. Come Together. Stand Our Ground. Make Sense. Nothing is left to the disenchanted slumber of the world. Everything is a matter of shoulders and vertebral harmonies. We remain ghosts at full gallop amid the ruins, somewhere between strength and tenderness.

Wildly raw. Wildly tender.

A Freddy Morezon production, with the support of the CNM, Région Occitanie, Conseil départemental de la Haute-Garonne and ADAMI. In partnership with SMAC 07, Annonay (07) / Les Aires, Théâtre de Die et du Diois, Scène conventionnée Art en territoire – Die (26) / Jazz à Luz–Jazz Pyr’, Luz-Saint-Sauveur (65). Freddy Morezon is supported by DRAC Occitanie and the City of Toulouse.

Une production Freddy Morezon, avec le soutien du CNM, de la Région Occitanie, du Conseil départemental de la Haute-Garonne et de l'ADAMI. Partenariat avec la SMAC 07, Annonay (07) / Les Aires, Théâtre de Die et du Diois, Scène conventionnée Art en territoire - Die (26) / Jazz à Luz-Jazz Pyr', Luz-Saint-Sauveur (65). Freddy Morezon est soutenue par la DRAC Occitanie et la Ville de Toulouse

Videos

 

CiRuS ViRCuLe

CiRuS ViRCuLe Laurent Paris et Betty Hovette

Retrouvez en podcast sur France Musique CiRuS ViRCuLe à l'honneur dans l'émission " Carrefour de la création " d'Anne Montaron : Duo CiRuS ViRCuLe / À L'Improviste !

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Discography

Press Review (FR)

Line-up

Betty Hovette : prepared piano
Laurent Paris : percussions

Contacts

Diffusion
Betty Hovette // tybets[a]posteo.net
Laurent Paris // loluparis[a]proton.me

Production
Sarah Recla // sarah[a]freddymorezon.org

Administration
Clara Bée // administration[a]freddymorezon.org

CiRuS ViRCuLe

musique improvisée

CiRuS ViRCuLe Laurent Paris et Betty Hovette

© Christian Taillemite

The times have changed. These days, Artificial Intelligence (AI) has already taken on such importance that even in the arts it is capable of replacing man. We can now have it write music in the style of Stravinsky, in the style of Bach's chorales, ask it to generate an improvisation in the spirit of John Coltrane's "Giant Steps", or even create its own original music. However, free improvisation is a domain that may well remain inaccessible to it, because behind the misnamed AI are - it should be remembered - programmers incapable of transcribing into computer code the fundamental qualities of free improvisation, at the heart of this recording: instinct, shared inspiration and genuine empathy.

Backed by these qualities, CiRuS ViRCuLe goes in search of the last unknown sonic territories with each of their performances. Betty Hovette and Laurent Paris are two "revelatory artists" in the sense that they continue to unearth untold treasures. To describe their music as "free improvisation" would be reductive, because their quest is less to find the freedom they already have than to get to the heart of the sound itself, to find the unhoped-for in what has finally happened. Far from the pre-organised, well beyond the accompanied melody and the traditional notion of harmony (without denying or discarding them altogether), these musicians of our time concentrate their creative efforts on creating unexpected textures or rhythmic phenomena outside tempo. There's a game of instrumental identity going on between them : who's playing what is one of the mysteries you'll enjoy listening to and you will enjoy these musical moments. The result is music that is never, ever directive. The incredible thing here lies precisely in the diversity of the feelings expressed/expressed, in the openness to other relationships to the world (than those some would like to impose on us), the flavour of which lies in the very uncertainty, somedelicious ambiguity.

Timeless music - possibly recorded as far back as prehistorictimes, as far back as the height of so-called contemporary' music - music of appearance - better still: of emergence!- The aim of its creators isn't so much an experiment, or a discovery of the newness, as the sheer pleasure of listening to sound(s). In other words, an antidote to the grandiloquence, therehashed, the foregone conclusions.

Ludovic Florin

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

Contacts

Booking François Montjosieu // francois{a}freddymorezon.org
Artistique Daniel Scalliet // danielscalliet{a}gmail.com

Facteur Sauvage

© Franck Morinière

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.