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Tracks of the WorldIt is four instrumentalists anchored in modernity, exiled in an ancestral vocal repertory from the ethnomusicological disc «Voices of the world».
A funeral song with child-like consonances,Fernand Bordage leading his oxen with incredilble calls to the plowing in a swamp of Vendée,Two Inuit women playing a « kattajjaq » throat-singing, punctuated with laughter,Lola Kiepja, the last Selk’nam shaman of the Terra del Fuego, who sows her rock-lit litanies.
These musics are a path in the imagination and the musical force created by humans as they evolve. It is a dance with the past to illuminate the present and to join what does not belong to the fleeting time, but to existence. It is a working process based on orality, by the imitation of a model towards its translation and its integration into a personal aesthetic.
On stage this becomes a suite of pieces from our selection within the original disc. Listening to the source songs is offered to the public in varied ways: sometimes before our version, sometimes during, by superposition and increase from the musicians. Explanations are given to the public in order to allow them to link our proposal to the context of original music, often full of imagination and poetry.
The record «Les Voix du Monde» was published by «Le Chant du Monde» in 1996 and presented to the listener a series of musical recordings made by many ethno-musicologists between 1924 and 1995, directed by Hugo Zemp, Bernard Lortat -Jacob, Gilles Léothaud.To listen > http://bit.ly/2nOXaz1
The method
This project progresses like this: selecting pieces from the original disc, the most faithful instrumental translation of the chosen material, then shifting towards a personal interpretation.The method of work is mainly oral, based on intensive listening, imitation, repetition, then transformation experienced while playing this music freely.
A particular technic applies for the imitation of vocal textures with instruments. Sometimes, in order to get closer to an irregular, complex vocal sound, the muscians use objects on their instruments: clothespins, scraps, bits of wood or metal, chopsticks, sponges. They prepare instruments the way John Cage prepared pianos in order to create unusual instrumental sounds.In other cases, the physical relationship between the changes, for example by placing the trumpet horn straight in the saxophone’s to create acoustic pertubations.
The work of transformation and shaping of the songs to the final version, is mainly resulting from the practice of the material with the tool of improvisation.
«When i discovered this record it was like an earthquake and a great breath of openness similar to my first listening of contemporary creation and the discovery of improvised music. These musics have a very intense aesthetic coherence, charged, shaped, inhabited by so many successive men and women, in contexts totally integrated with social life, that my current tendency to a systematic tabula rasa seemed futile, arrogant and displaced. At the same time, a sensation of absolute modernity emerges from those recordings. The arrangement of the timbres, the complexity and the rhythmic and harmonic fluidity, the density of the musical discourse, in a music essentially created within the oral tradition, confronted me with the question of this concept of modernity and the role of writing in the creation. These are questions that remain open, and to experience them, I wanted to practice these musics playing with other musicians. In order to let our bodies vibrate in these musical costumes carved for other voices, to renew and connect us. « Matthieu Prual
The musicThe musical orientations that arise from the choice of this repertory are multiple, inspired by the world musics, playing tribal sounds, improvising on the model of jazz.
No Tongues borrows their popular dimension from the music of the oral tradition.
As they join in the game of translating with instruments, the musicians share the lightness or the power which, according to the source songs and the original context, makes the strength and the beauty of the covered musics.
As a blink from past to present, this creation makes available little-known works by updating them with codes of today’s productions, but it also enables the public to be confronted with a demanding aesthetic, serving a federating and humanizing message.
The work of simplification and the opening of the imaginary of the listeners also passes by the contextualization of the music to the public, giving explanations during the show.
On stage, No Tongues conforms to the tradition of oral music, destined to be shared between generations through education and dialogue.
The physical involvement of the musicians, the use of surprising accessories on the instruments (clothespins, bird call, knitting needles ...), reinforced by the work of light creation and the presence of tribal masks, opens the concert to a rich visual dimension.
Full of sounds and instrumental surprises, the show is above all a communicating work addressed to any kind of audiences, a seductive and sincere musical experience.
No Tongues’ musicians are long-standing partners. Classmates in Nantes’ Conservatory (Brittany, FRANCE), each one as been building his own universe with stones from jazz music, improvised music and contemporary music.They already played together in projects produced by « Les Productions du Mouflon » such as the poetic opera « Le sel noir » from 2009 to 2011, the wandering workshops « La Caravane à Plumes », and the composition for a landscape « L’offrande musicale ». Ronan Courty and Alan Regardin played in « Mood » from 2011 to 2014, et still playing in « W.A.R. », a french trio created by the Australian drummer Will Guthrie.
ALAN REGARDINTrumpet player, he develops a singular approach to his instrument, both acoustic and electric.He focuses his experiments mainly in the field of improvised music, free jazz, rock, and works sometimes on creations with dance or drama. He plays or has played with l’Orchestre du Tricot, Oblik, W.A.R., Raha, Mood, Jean-Luc Cappozzo, Emile Parisien, Akosh Szelevenyi, Christophe Monniot, Sylvain Darrifourcq, Will Guthrie, Denis Pean. He was chosen to performe homestay improvised concerts as « Artist of the year » by Nantes’ Jazz Club « Le Pannonica » in 2015.
RONAN PRUALBass and double bass player, composer and arranger. After guitar and bass studies, Ronan PRUAL follows classical double bass class in Nantes’s Conservatory, and graduate in 2007. Between 2004 and 2012, he founds and develops bass and double bass class in several music schools in Nantes’ area. In 2001, he meets the american pianist-composer Bob Destiny, and enters into his orchestra « Shango Blues Band »; he quickly becomes a well known musican of the local jazz scene. His work is now guiding him essentially towards improvisation and traditional music of the world.
RONAN COURTYDouble bass player, composer and arranger, he studied in Nantes’s Conservatory and graduated in classical department on piano, double bass, composition, analysis and conducting. In parallel, he also graduated in jazz department thanks to Jean-Marie Bellec et Christian Villeneuve.In 2004, he enters in the jazz and improvised music department of the National Dance and Music Conservatory in Paris to deepen the composition and to perfect with the master classes of Riccardo Del Fra, Marc Ducret and Archie Shepp in particular. He also discovers the generative improvisations with Vincent Le Quang and Alexandros Markeas, the music of India with Patrick Moutal. Member of the « Cabaret contemporain », a flagship french group of contemporary creation, he is also a member of rock groups such as « Pipeline », « Luna Maze » and « Vérupan ». He has collaborated with Jeanne Cherhal, Nery, Mayra Andrade, Jean-François Zygel, Vincent Segal and has participated in the recording of several film music (« Dans Paris », « Un conte de Noel », « L’arbre »).
MATTHIEU PRUALNo Tongues’s originator, travels into the musical world as a saxophonist, clarinettist, composer and improviser. During his jazz studies at Nantes’s Conservatory, he worked frequently with artists from other disciplines (photography, video, visual arts, poetry, dance). He unfolds over time a singular and expressive voice, always seeking music. He founded and directed the « Ensemble Phoenix » with witch he composed « Le sel noir », an opera written on Edouard Glissant’s poem, given in Avignon’s Festival with the french comedian Denis Lavant in 2011. Public prize winner of the italian « Luigi Russolo international electro-acoustic music competition » in 2012 with his composition « Souffles ». Since 2003, he also been developping a discography for childhood with the french parisian editor « Editions Didier Jeunesse », with several albums welcomed by specialized critics as the french « Academie Charles Cros ». Among his collaborators : Toma Gouband, Gaspar Claus, Soizic Lebrat, Armand Angster, Bernard Lubat, Benat Achiarry, Marc Perrin, Heddy Boubaker, Thomas Barrière, Bastien Pelenc.
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Pedagogic actionsEvents in schools, colleges, high schools, universities
The project « Tracks of the World » abounds with several ways of meeting unwarned listeners.
The ethnomusicologic angle; the instrumental approach, singular by the commitment of the body and the use of everyday objects for prepared instruments; the relationship between ageless music from the peoples of the world and a creative approach rooted in its time.
By the variety of those gates, we can guide the public in our artistic proposition through interactive and playful sessions together.
Specific instrumental actionsMusicians of « No Tongues » propose thematic workshops for non-professional musicians and
singers, children and adults, right from the very first year of practice.
Partnerships
Contacts
« Les Productions du Mouflon » Association
President : Jean-François MeignanHead office : 7 rue des Ecachoirs 44000 Nantes - FRANCE
Authorized french entertainement contractor since march 2015LICENSE n°2-1054164SIRET n° 539 168 666 00029APE 9001Z Arts du spectacle vivant
Matthieu Prual artistic director / manager+ 33 6 63 62 92 64 / [email protected]
Alexis Tenaud production manager+ 33 6 24 67 35 81 / [email protected]
Web site No Tongues > http://bit.ly/2o15haT
