The Solal / Delbecq duo, a first-class performance - a new Pierrot-Lunaire - of a unique kind and fascinating expressiveness off the beaten track (All about Jazz). Born in autumn 2013, the artistic collaboration between Claudia Solal and Benoît Delbecq was an obvious choice. It was in November 2015, on the occasion of a tour organized by The Bridge association in Chicago with the Antichamber Music quartet, around poems by James Joyce (with bassoonist Katie Young and cellist Tomeka Reid), that the first concerts took place; back in France, they decided to continue as a duo, and recorded these imaginary, improvised songs based on texts by Claudia: No sake tonight, Inner otherness, Burning green, Ultimate embrace...
The result of this singular alchemy is a cosmic, timeless song that plays with all kinds of transparencies, a music that is impetuous and powerful, deeply intuitive, moving and stirring.
Hopetown, released by RogueArt in January 2020, received 4f Télérama and a Choc Jazzmagazine: "A radical success", according to Le Monde.
Co-produced by
Ville de Marseille - Opéra
Release by RogueArt
creation Sons d'hiver in January 2020
Michel Dorbon, Bureau de Son, Tatiana Chevalier, Kevin Le Gendre, Le Festival Sons d'hiver.
Benoît Delbecq
is a Parisian musician-inventor whose influence on jazz extends far beyond our borders. Fascinated from an early age by the subtle musical constructs of the Aka pygmies, and by those of his masters Steve Coleman, Mal Waldron and Steve Lacy, Benoît Delbecq has succeeded in developing a personal compositional and instrumental toolbox, nourished by calligraphy, linguistic studies and sound engineering, mathematics and science in the broadest sense, and literature, driven as he is by a passion for playing in subtle, elegant polyrhythmic universes. On the piano, which he partially prepares with wood and gum, he has given the soul of jazz to John Cage's prepared piano.
Early influenced by the ideas of Oulipo or Bauhaus, by the musicological work of Béla Bartók, by the whole history of jazz, traditional music and written music, Delbecq delights in playful compositional constraints, which he then extends as if by arborescence in his improvised playing. In addition to numerous international awards for most of his albums, he has received the Grand Prix du Disque de l'Académie Charles Cros, the Prix de la Villa Médicis Hors-les-Murs, and is listed in 2023 in the "Piano" category of DOWNBEAT magazine's Jazz Critics Poll.
" This is music to treasure. THE WIRE
"Benoît Delbecq, l'éclaireur." LE MONDE
An untamed, adventurous musician, songwriter and improviser, Claudia Solal has been performing in France and abroad for over 25 years. Her singular collaborations and multiple artistic experiences have played a major role in the development of a unique vocal language, between written material and improvised songs.
After her highly acclaimed debut albums, "BuGer in my brain" (2017, with Benjamin Moussay) met with unanimous acclaim. "Hopetown" (RogueArt 2020 - CHOC Jazzmagazine / 4F Télérama) marks the continuation of her collaboration with Benoît Delbecq, which began in Chicago in 2015. She currently performs in trio with Didier Petit and Philippe Foch (Les Ferrailleurs du ciel, ex-Voyageurs de l'espace - Grand Prix de l'Académie Charles Cros 2018 / recent tours in Mexico, China, Korea, Baltic States, Finland...), with Françoise Toullec (La Banquise), Christophe Rocher (Nautilis), in trio with Jean-Charles Richard and Marc Copland. A new quartet with Hasse Poulsen, Simon Drappier and Stéphane Payen will be launched in 2024. She has also been involved in voice teaching since 1998 (courses, master classes), and taught at the CRR de Strasbourg from 2005 to 2023.
"The Solal / Delbecq duo, a first-class performance - a new Pierrot-Lunaire - of a unique kind and fascinating expressiveness off the beaten track."
Henning Bolte, All about Jazz, June 2019 (USA)
"A music that is terribly intuitive, impalpable, free... deeply moving."
Jacques Prouvost, Jazzques, January 2020
"Powerful poems, resounding complicity."
Bruno Pfeiffer, Libération, June 2019 (Jazz d'or Berlin)
"... exact poetry, the sound of galaxies, skies in motion, one-way double entente, unsettling intimacy... you've never heard anything like it."
Francis Marmande, Le monde.fr, April 2020
"A total success"
Vincent Cotro, Choc Jazzmagazine April 2020
"Absolute listening pleasure"
Xavier Prévost, Jazzmagazine, January 2020
"An absolute singularity. Yes, but above all an indisputable artistic success. Let's rush!"
Xavier Prévost, Dernières Nouvelles du Jazz, January 2020
"Powerful evocation, powerful emotion. In the juxtaposition of sounds, in the confrontation of solid touch and airy vocalization."
Guillaume Malvoisin, Pointbreak.fr (France-Grande-Bretagne)
"Without a doubt, one of the best vocal jazz albums - bold, vibrant, and current - to appear in years."
Yahvé M. de la Cavada, Scherzo, June 2020 (Spain)
" Hopetown is a compelling album, the kind you find hard to resist."
Franpi Barriaux, Elu Citizen jazz, April 2020
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Le Noise (Jérôme Gillet), Froggy's Delight, January 2020
"In the world of the piano/voice duo, the encounter between Claudia Solal and Benoit Delbecq is an obvious one. Both possess a strange, panoramic view of interiority that immerses the listener in their melodic expressiveness and gives them a feeling of immediate proximity to the musical subject in its linearity. Their music embraces us; it in no way forces us, but lets us sink into intimacy, through the profound mystery of the struck, smoothed, resonant note, and the surreal breath of words, words dug into the bone that crackle with a gentle questioning madness."
Yves Dorison, Culture Jazz, January 2020
Opéra de Marseille (Foyer Ernest Reyer)
2, rue Molière13001
Marseille
DURATION
approx. 1h
MODULATIONRATES 4
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IN THE FRAMEWORK OF MODULATIONS
What are Modulations?
Concerts, performances, regular events...
In other words, a season organized by the GMEM.
1st semester dates:
17/09/24 - 15/10 - 19/11 - 8/12 - 17/12
2nd semester dates :
21/01/25- 18/02 - 18/03 - 23/03 - 15/04 - 11/05
voices
piano