Category Archives: Tribute to an Imaginary Folk Band
vidéo Bedmakers – On the turnpike – Jazzdor Berlin
On the turnpike – Bedmakers live @ Jazzdor Berlin, june 2018
Video by Josselin Carré
vidéo Bedmakers – Smokey River – Jazzdor Berlin
Smokey River – Bedmakers live @ Jazzdor Berlin, june 2018Video by Josselin Carré
JAZZ WORD
Looking for the perfect Jazz-Impov band consisting of a quartet of French nationals whose repertoire is exclusively Anglo-Saxon folk music? Well look no further than Bedmakers.
Expressive throughout with tropes stretching from a capella arabesques and double-tonguing from the saxophonist to triple stopping violin runs and percussion gallops, Bedmakers prove that these simple melodies can be reconstituted without any lose of groove or passion. Without losing an iota of sophistication in their interpretations, the quartet defines itself as a jubilant party band for any century.
Ken Waxman, Jazz Word, august 2018
Revue de presse – Tribute to an Imaginary Folk Band – Jazz Word
LE MONDE
The Bedmakers Tribute To An Imaginary Folk Band is excellent. Six times, starting in the style of bagpipes or recorders, folklore à la Gottlieb (the cartoonist) over very sophisticated counterpoint. After which, a great plunge, and a rendez-vous at the sandpile. Joyful and effective.
Francis Marmande, LE MONDE.fr, novembre 2016
Revue de presse Bedmakers Francis Marmande
Tribute to an Imaginary Folk Band
april/june 2018
Mr Morezon 017
In co-production with Babel Label
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Master class “Improviser la reprise” avec Robin Fincker et Fabien Duscombs
Dans le cadre du concert de “Tribute to an Imaginary Folk Band” au Festival Banlieues Bleues à La Dynamo, Pantin (93), Robin Fincker et Fabien Duscombs animent une master-class “Improviser la reprise” à Pantin, durant les mois de mars et d’avril 2016, avec le MAAD93.
Cette master class donnera lien à un concert de resitution le 7 avril à La Dynamo, Pantin (93)
Future Folk Stories (création 2021)
Inspired by the BBC Ballads of the 50’s by Ewan McColl and Charles Parker who revolutionized the concept of musical documentary on the radio, the group proposes a concert device for radio, mixing songs and pre-recorded texts, acoustic instruments and concrete sounds, electroacoustics and the evocative force of the voice in multiple forms – sung, spoken, chanted…
In mediation residency in the Hautes-Pyrénées, with Traverse and in Pantin with Banlieues Bleues.
Whahay
October 2014