Category Archives: Projets

Forêt

Tour

  • 06
    Jul

    LAST DAY // Marylin Leray x Nicolas Lafourest -

    La Manufacture, Avignon - 14h50 -

     

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Nicolas Lafourest : electric guitar

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Forêt

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FORET

La guitare seule, sans additifs, exprime l'émotion dans sa forme la plus réduite, à l’os, par les cendres. Si l’ornement est mis de côté ici, où ne subsistent qu'armatures et formes brutes, la musique n'en est que plus directe et suggestive. Un son brut, aride, à la fois mélancolique et rassurant, comme de longues promenades en solitude accompagnée. La trame rêche et ronde des cordes, tantôt grondantes, roulantes, saillantes, frémissantes ou chuchotantes, déploie un panel d'expressivité qui emporte l'auditeur vers ses propres paysages décharnés ou sublimes.

FAULKNER SONGS

Quand j’ai fait écouter les fragments de ces morceaux à un ami, il a évoqué Faulkner. J’ai trouvé la correspondance juste dans sa résonance à un certain imaginaire. En lien direct avec une âme aux contours écorchés, les ‘Faulkner Songs’ ont été construites sur une guitare électrique jouée à vide, débranchée, à l’abri de toutes tentations d’effet(s).
Cette contrainte comme volonté a guidé mes attentes vers ce même but, là où le propos se resserre et s’évide.

Captées sur le vif, les Faulkner songs ouvrent l'imaginaire, suscitent des images. Forêt nous entraîne vers des contrées aux sonorités familières et dans les méandres de son paysage intime.
Forêt ne triche pas. Il se livre avec une extrême sincérité, sans ornement inutile, sans le moindre effet. Se mettant à nu. Son monde est contrasté, apaisé et tendu, lumineux et tourmenté. L'harmonie y est souvent contrariée, la dualité exprimée de manière stridente et nerveuse. Le bruit et la fureur. Un tiraillement, une dissonance qui stimule le mouvement, l'intensité du jeu, l'émotion qu'elle suscite. Les Faulkner songs, c'est un monde vibrant dans la moindre note. Une âme.
Mr Morezon 023 / paru le 26 février 2021 chez Mr Morezon

Facteur Sauvage

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

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

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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.

Sweetest Choice

Tour

  • 10
    Jun

    Sweetest Choice -

    Maison de la musique, Cap découverte, Le Garric
    10
    Jun
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  • 19
    Sep

    Sweetest Choice -

    Les Résonances, Sainte-Juliette (82)
    19
    Sep
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  • 12
    Nov

    Sweetest Choice -

    La Maison d'Erasme, Bruxelles, Belgique
    12
    Nov
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  • 13
    Jan

    Sweetest Choice -

    Scène nationale Albi-Tarn, Albi
    13
    Jan
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  • 14
    Jan

    Sweetest Choice – Au Fil du Tarn -

    Médiathèque, Plouescat - 16h00 -

     

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Sébastien Cirotteau : trumpet
Benjamin Glibert : twelve-string guitar

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Sweetest Choice

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Sweetest Choice

Formé en 2016, Sweetest Choice, duo composé de Sébastien Cirotteau (trompette) et Benjamin Glibert (guitare 12 cordes), tire son nom du chef d’œuvre de la musique vocale, O Solitude, my sweetest choice de Purcell. Par le biais de transcriptions originales, Sweetest Choice propose une relecture instrumentale et intimiste de pièces musicales finement choisies pour leur intensité émotionnelle. Au fil des répertoires, le duo continue de nous livrer une folk acoustique subtile qui flirte avec la pop instrumentale, la musique de chambre épurée et la musique contemporaine.
Sweetest Choice transforme chaque performance en un moment d’émotion pure et de délicatesse sonore, pour nous transporter dans un voyage musical intemporel.

Light Songs

Avec leur nouveau répertoire intitulé Light Songs, le duo part à la recherche de la lumière : une exploration musicale de l’exaltation, de la passion, pour un répertoire enlevé, lyrique, parfois profond mais toujours délicat. Sweetest Choice souhaite relier différents genres et diverses époques entre elles, avec une attention particulière pour la musique écrite par des femmes. Light Songs offre l'opportunité de raconter de petites histoires qui apportent un regard neuf sur l'Histoire de la musique. Ils interrogent l’amour, la création, l’inspiration.

Grave, belle et lumineuse, leur musique appelle l’auditeur à une écoute recueillie, créant des concerts uniques et mémorables.

Light Songs est un production Freddy Morezon, réalisée en co-production avec la Scène Nationale d'Albi, l'association Traverse (65), la ville de Perpignan (66) et la communauté de communes de Haute Corrèze. En partenariat avec le Cie Aquaserge.

 

Etenesh Wassié Trio

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  • 22
    Mar

    Etenesh Wassié trio -

    LAC, Lugano, Suisse
    22
    Mar
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  • 18
    Apr

    Etenesh Wassié Trio -

    La Fraternelle / Maison du Peuple, Saint-Claude
    18
    Apr
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News

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

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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.

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The Possibility of a new work for Aquaserge / octobre 2021, Crammed discs

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Perdu dans un étui de guitare

Benjamin Glibert : guitar, voice
Audrey Ginestet : bass, voice
Manon Glibert : clarinets, voice
Olivier Kelchtermans : baritone & alto saxophones, voice
Robin Fincker : tenor saxophone, clarinet, voice
Marina Tantanozi : flutes, voice
Julien Chamla : drums, voice
Camille Emaille : drums, voice
Anouck Hilbey : Playback voice
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Elise Simonet : Artistic collaboration
Anne Laurin : sound management
Sam Mary : lightning
Jérémy His : tour management

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Aquaserge

"Perdu dans un étui de guitare" (Lost in a guitar case) 2021 creation

A possibility of a new work for Aquaserge + guest

Aquaserge Orchestra

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"Perdu dans un étui de guitare" (2021 creation)

Multifaceted nebula-band Aquaserge invents its own universe and musical codes from the merging of rock, jazz, song, pop, free, psychedelic and film music influences. In a nonet state and replying to the invitation of the Lieu Unique (Nantes, France), Aquaserge is currently creating a concert in connexion with masterpieces of the 20th century contemporary music.

In its creation called "Perdu dans un étui de guitare" ("Lost in a guitar case"), a rock-sounding contemporary piece concieved like a mise en abîme, Aquaserge immerses us inside pieces of E.Varèse, M. Feldman, G. Ligeti, G. Scelsi. The band knits links between the pieces through a work on voice and timbres, allowing itself to arrange, experiment and reinterpret the scores. Aquaserge plays with tags and rules confronting this facet of so-called serious music with their singular musical identity.

"Perdu dans un étui de guitare" is thought like a concert inseparable from its scenography, where lights, dramaturgy and physical commitment are driven by the dramaturge Elise Simonet. The band also proposes to invite a guest on each concert, integrating it to the scenic device.

Co-production : Freddy Morezon, le Lieu Unique (Nantes, France), La Soufflerie scène conventionnée de Rezé (Rezé, France), "Aujourd'hui Musiques" festival by l'Archipel (Perpignan, France) and Aquaserge. In partnership with Chez Lily, les arts à l’œuvre (Germ-Louron, France). With the support of the DRAC Occitanie, the Région Occitanie, the Adami, the SPEDIDAM, the FCM and the CNV.

Aquaserge Orchestra


Aquaserge

At the same time experimental pop band and jazz orchestra, Aquaserge offers an hyper-imaginative music brimming with instrumental excursions and dada texts. Multifaceted nebula playing with codes and genres, Aquaserge has become in around twelve years one of the most exciting band of the french scene. The band evolves around a psychedelic-rock-pop core comprising Julien Gasc (keys & vocals), Benjamin Glibert (guitar & vocals), Audrey Ginestet (bass & vocals), Manon Glibert (clarinets) and Julien Chamla (drums). Often joined the last three years by jazz and improv scenes musicians Robin Fincker (saxophone, clarinet), Sébastien Cirotteau (trumpet), Olivier Kelchtermans (saxophone) and lastly by Marina Tantanozi (flutes).

The band has been releasing eight albums to this day, on which the two last opus Laisse ça être (2017, Almost Musique/Crammed Discs) and the live album Déjà-Vous ? (2018, Crammed Discs) have been widely critically acclaimed. Their hyper-imaginative sound takes on an even wilder dimension on stage. For the last three years, Aquaserge toured a lot in France and abroad on various stages : rock, jazz, experimental, pop. This jack-of-all-trades band collecting multiple collaborations embarks on every musical adventure enthusiastically. After their intense tour, last season we saw the band show up on film credits, playing in theatres, doing drawn concerts, accompanying a string quartet at the Opera de Lyon and taking part in contemporary art or literature festivals. Their Léo Ferré cover "Si tu t’en vas" won the price of the best interpretation at the 9th edition of the Musical Creation Prices (Prix de la Création Musicale).

In 2019-2020, answering to the invitation of the Lieu Unique (Nantes, France), Aquaserge embarks into a new adventure in connexion with contemporary music masterpieces (from Ligetti, Varèse, Feldman, Stockhausen, Scelsi…), surounded by Sylvaine Hélary, Camille Emaille, a special guest, and the dramaturge Elise Simonet.

Aquaserge Orchestra
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