Recording residence.
Shan 's music emerges from the union of three musicians against the backdrop of mountain contemplation. From its most intimate tremors to its deafening swirls, right down to its abysmal silence, they capture the very essence of the elemental forces that animate this majestic landscape. Their music becomes the living, organic, mineral reflection of this encounter between humans and nature.
For this new creation, the trio invites two artists, Sigrid Aftret (tenor saxophone) and Canan Domurcakli (vocals, saz), and draws inspiration from the writings of Nastassjia Martin and her book Les Âmes Sauvages.
Production
Naï Nô Production
Coproduction
GMEM - Centre national de création musicale (Marseilles); Vélo Théâtre (venue for object theater and the intersection of arts and sciences)
Support
Drac PACA ; Région Sud ; Département de Vaucluse ; Ville d'Apt ; Sacem
Pascal Charrier
Founder of the Naï Nô company, based in Apt in the Luberon region, his projects have been spreading throughout France and beyond for some fifteen years (Kami Octet, Jazz Experience...).
His music draws on many sources of inspiration. The presence of a drone can evoke Mediterranean music, or come close to archaic blues.
In this trio, he uses a folk guitar with modified tuning, which enhances the instrument's natural timbre and resonance.
Harmonic reflexes are disrupted, giving way to a primitive, instinctive relationship with sound.
Julien Pontvianne
The saxophonist and clarinettist draws on many traditions, from Renaissance masses and Indonesian gamelan to the music of Sonic Youth, Paul Motian and Morton Feldman, to offer listeners his vision of slowness.
He is an active member of the Onze heures Onze collective, and founder of the groups Oxyd, Watt, the large ensemble Aum, Onze heures Onze Orchestra, and the trio Kepler (winner of the Jazz Migration award).
For him, music is made of silences, resonances, untempered chords, continuous matter, timbres in fusion. He is a master in the art of opening up time-spaces in which to take refuge, and where intensity reigns without emphasis or flare.
Ariel Tessier
Ariel Tessier is a very active musician on the current scene.
His ethereal cymbal playing, combining extreme fluidity and precision, is a great force that transcends the rhythms he seizes upon.
A student of Riccardo Del Fra and Dré Pallemaerts, he is also the drummer for PJ5, alongside guitarist Paul Jarret and House of Echo, another Jazz Migration award-winner.
He has also played with Dave Liebman, Wynton Marsalis, François Théberge, Hervé Sellin and Glenn Ferris.
Sigrid Aftret
Sigrid Aftret composes and plays music in genres such as jazz, avant-garde, improvised and contemporary. She lives in Oslo, but has previously lived in Paris and Copenhagen, where she has also established herself as an active musician. Aftret is particularly interested in rhythm and serialism in her compositional work, and has written several works for major jazz ensembles.
Her quintet Bêl released its first album on the Parisian label Onze Heures Onze. Since 2021, she has been part of the Franco-Norwegian collective L'Autre Collectif, and is a member of OJKOS (the Oslo Jazz Composers Orchestra). Aftret has also played with musicians such as Eve Risser, Théo Girard, Ingebrigt Håker Flaten, Kalle Moberg, Jeppe Zeeberg, Matt Choboter, Kresten Osgood and Samuel Ber.
Canan Domurcakli
Canan Domurcackli is a singer and musician born in Ankara and originally from Sivas.
Lulled by the traditional music of Anatolia, she began singing at weddings and family celebrations with Ashiks and Ozans from an early age. She began studying traditional music at college, solfège and saz, notably with masters Ishan Özturk and Musa Eroglu.
Over time, she extended her knowledge of the repertoire to include styles from the different regions of Anatolia. For her, traditional music is a way of better understanding her own culture. She sees traditional music as a memory of the present, enabling her to better grasp the sorrows, joys and difficulties of her people.
Her knowledge of popular poetry, strictly linked to traditional music, enriches her playing.
Canan Domurcakli has presented her music in France, Turkey, Belgium and Switzerland. She performs solo and in groups.
Pascal Charrier
guitar, vocals
Julien Pontvianne
saxophone, clarinet
Ariel Tessier
drums, percussion
Sigrid Aftret
saxophone
Canan Domurcakli
vocals