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QWANQWA *

      Beaming in from the sizzling Addis Ababa nightlife scene, this group shines an experimentalism based in the virtuosity of rooted traditions. With swirling masinko (one∼stringed fiddle), wah∼wah violin, bass krar grooves, the heavy riffs of goat skin kebero beats, and powerful mellismatic lead african diva vocals, QWANQWA keeps the people rapt in celebratory attention…

• QWANQWA
s debut US tour of 54 concerts in fall 2022 brought the poignant euphoric experience to storied jazz clubs, sticker slapped rock clubs, folk festivals, prestigious music institutions, street festivals, universities, and country opera houses, all the while unifying these audiences as they clap along Music is Universal Language. Qwanqwa uncovers lesser known traditional sounds from east africa regions of ethiopia and beyond—a trance∼like chant of the eritrean tribe of Blen, a psychadelic somalian cover, an extended amhara wedding medley, a Mahmoud Ahmed sing∼a∼long…

The ensemble was founded in 2012 by american violinist Kaethe Hostetter, who first worked in ethiopian music as a founding member of critically acclaimed Debo Band. Relocating to Addis Ababa in 2009, she participated in numerous exploratory and professional projects, immersing further into the culture of her surroundings. In this sense, QWANQWA, the amharic word for language is a project creating dialogues between cultures. Members are Endris Hassen (masinko), Kaethe Hostetter (violin), Bubu Teklemariam (bass krar), Selamnesh Zemene (voice), and Misale Legesse (kebero).

Lets meet on the roads in 2024 !

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CHARMING HOSTESS *

Charming Hostess

      CHARMING HOSTESS was founded in 1993 inside the fertile anarchy of Barrington Co∼op, and nurtured by the West Oakland arts community, along with other coeval bands such as Fibulator and Eskimo

Half of CHARMING HOSTESS big band was also in Idiot Flesh & Sleepytime Gorilla Museum. The female trio (Carla Kihlstedt, Jewlia Eisenberg, Nina Rolle), a kind of commando half∼gospel < > half∼choral, immediately striking by its vocal arrangements of extreme vigor and precision, its complex and contortionist harmonies, supported by a rhythmic heated to white and drawn with a knife, quick to sow the most dangerous «breaks», and highly colored by an instrumentation that borrows as much from rock  as from various folklores : electric guitar, bass, violin, accordion, saxophone, flute, and so many other sound spices…

 At fashion parade, the «Charming Hostesses» prefer boxing rings ! The formation of the group lends itself well to duels : three women and three men. They could also be distinguished into three singers & three musicians, but the truth is that female singers also play instruments and musicians sometimes sing as well. The roles are mixed, jostled ← Parity, isnt it ?

After the disband of the big band in 2000, Jewlia kept the fire of Charming Hostess in various curious & delicious transitions, mutations, inversions, transformations in so many beauty (r)evolutions…

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ak007 *

ALBERT MARCŒUR & LE QUATUOR BÉLA
Si Oui, Oui. Sinon Non.

| CD digipack  + Booklet 24∼pages

      This album summarizes a live∼show given everywhere around france since 2013 by Albert Marcœur & le Quatuor BélaFrédéric Aurier and Julien Dieudegard at violins, Julian Boutin playing alto, Luc Debreuil at cello, they all sing. Albert Marcœur plays sometimes alone, tables like samplers, taking & editing excerpts from interviews as here with this testimony of a former tuba player from «Orchestre dHarmonie de Venarey∼lès∼Laumes» (musical samples that cross the «Paquito el Chocolatero» from Gustavo Pascual, with excerpts of Edward Elgar, Adrian Sical or Aaron Copeland). Testimony and treatment as joyful as it is moving. Without forgetting Combinaison Bipolaire → score for voice &  tables reproduced here in the libretto with the composers handwritten notes : «racler avec la gorge», «en aspirant», «plaintif» or «gueuler raisonnable». Good reading !

Edited in 2017 via labels of Quatuor BÉLA & brothers MarcœurLABEL FRÈRES |
ak 007  |

Pirouettes Pour Des Prunes
LÉclipse
Les Valises À Roulettes
Les Deux Petits Vieux
La Fanfare Des Laumes
Les Mouches
Combinaison Bipolaire
Entretien
Les Chemins De LÉcole



→ You can order directly online through Albert15€ + sheeping
Or you can come visit my itinerant info$hop  at one of these dates15€ cash

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déjàVU? *

déjàVU?

      Living FREEak show… Alive ? Multi∼directional, collective, instinctive & intuitive inter(re)actions… Opening in adventure. A creation / ebullition bringing together 4 fantastics : Vocal snapshot, wobbly, happy aNGRry ; Physical sonic & ecstatic symbiosis → Between circus ↓ ↑ risk & voices ← brouhaha, ah ah !

Like an impression∼sensation of déjàVU? >>> For this stage intrusion premiere, prepare your senses for the unlikely & incredible encounter between an escaped fairy with a dreamlike voice, a pyromaniac circassian with a Cyr wheel, a laughing beatboxer with a full deep throat, an oral anomaly with body & scream… and lotsa listening !

Pencil artworks : Stéphanie Chardon

          ↓ ↓ ↓ Click on the 4 thumbnails∼internet links to discover the 4 diverses universes of this 4∼tet ↓ ↓ ↓

je∼ne∼sais∼quoitour
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10.12.2022
| MONTREUIL
• fr |
Théâtre Berthelot
festival  La Semaine Du Bizarre

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22.04.2023
| VENDÔME
• fr |
Troisième Volume du Minotaure
festival  Rural Peace

• • •

1.06
| IVRY∼SUR∼SEINE
• fr |
Théâtre Aleph

• • •

13.07

| ERQUERY
• fr |
Le Stade

• • •
16.07
| MONTMARTIN∼SUR∼MER
• fr |
Scène Odyssée
festival  Chauffer Dans La Noirceur
• • •
28.07
| LES ROCHES LÊVÈQUE
• fr |
Zéro Degré Est
festival  Calme, Repos, Détente

29.07
| LORMES
• fr |
festival  de la Cour Denis

30.07
| VENAREY LES LAUMES
• fr |
festival  Les Quincailleries
• • •
23, 24 & 25.08
| BRIGUEUIL
• fr |
festival  Le Geste Qui Conte
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29.11

| PARIS
• fr |
Cirque Électrique
creation Circus Experience

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LUCRATE MILK *

Lucrate Milk

      LUCRATE MILK was born virtually between 1977 & 1978. «We invented the name, the logo, the lettering, and we started bombing the walls of Paris». Their notoriety —grown from these tags— will give rise to quite crazy rumors → Like those people who will claim to have seen them play live when no concert has yet taken place… It was not until 1979 that the group was physically formed. Lucrate Milk consisted of Laul Lombrick (bassist, clown & future draftsman for Bérurier Noir), Masto Lowcost (saxo∼photographist which will then also join the Bérus & the beginning of Washington Dead Cats), Nina Childress (also painter & member of collective Frères Ripoulin), Raoul Gaboni (drummer, later in MKB, Ouloumboutou & the collective the Bateleurs de Bakouo) and Helno (voice, of course following the BxN, then Les Négresses Vertes). LauL & MaSTo were milk deliverers before the group was formed… True story.

LUCRATE MILK played mainly in squats and at lUsine Pali∼Kao de Belleville, this was the burgeoning of french alternative movement & labels…. Their music (?) was was uncompromising ← wild, youthful, Dada & Destroy ! But let us not forget that they were above all a meeting of visual comrades arghtists { painting, drawing, photo, video, sculpture, etc. } >>> Resourcefulness & joyful hacking !

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davidX *

David∼X

         (Beat)boxer, (de)constructor, (de)composer, singer, tinkerer, sharer… The entertainer David Térosier aka DAVID∼X brings his good vibes & sense of humour for years between voices, musics, circus… Through workshop meetings, show happenings !

Do you feel the impression∼sensation of déjàVU?

DavidX & MonsieurQuiconque

déjàVUtour
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24.09.2022
| LES LILAS
• fr |
Tambour à Vapeur
soirée  À Toute Vapeur !

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+ SENYAWA +

2.11.2023
| ERQUERY
• fr |
LAtelier

6.11
| BRUSSELS
• be |
Wine Bunker

7.11
| DEN HAAG
• nl |
Wirwar

12.11
| SAINT QUENTIN SUR INDROIS
• fr |
Amap de la Poterie

15.11
| NÜRNBERG
• de |
Soft Spot

16.11
| CHEMNITZ
• de |
Transit

17 & 18.11
| TÜBINGEN
• de |
Lu15

19.11
| INNSBRÜCK
• at |
P.M.K.

20.11
| LUZERN
• ch |
Industrie

22.11
| ROMA
• it |
Formiche30

23.11
| JESI
• it |
Tnt

25.11
| VENEZIA
• it |
Argo 16

27.11
| REILLANNE
• fr |
Café du Cours
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2.03.2024
| MONTREUIL
• fr |
La Parole Errante

festival 
Cinéma Voyageur
3.03 & 7.04

| MONTREUIL
• fr |
LAéri

matinee  Bal Aérien
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