From Iraq to La Cigale, La Caravane Passe sets up its Bivouak in the 4 corners of the planet. And passing through the Vercors, the #SessionLive includes the group No Mad.Rebroadcast from September 24, 2023.
The Caravan Passes at 20 YEARS OLD – 20 TITLES with RACHID TAHA, SANSEVERINO, DANAKIL, FLAVIA COELHO, ERIKA SERRE, TRYO, LA RUE KETANOU…
It does not appear in any tourist guide, yet the Karavan Hotel does indeed exist somewhere in the 20th arrondissement of Paris and musicians from all over the world are jockeying to put their suitcases there. It was born in the head of Toma Feterman more than 20 years ago. This little guy from Ménilmontant whose family from Central Europe found refuge on the hill, dreams of traveling, from the top of his HLM tower. But unlike the great explorers who want to explore every corner of the globe, our sedentary adventurer wants to create a haven in his three-room apartment to accommodate the entire planet.
For all his baggage, he is 20 years old, not even 20 euros in his pocket, but a guitar, a trumpet, a word mill and great ambitions. He has to start his business, he needs a crew. No mercenaries ready to desert at the first damage. No, pirates, real ones, loyal to the captain.
He recruits the Catalan will-o’-the-wisp, Llugs, a trombonist, fiscornist and chatterboxer who will take care of the solar panels as well as everything that will allow the group to maintain its energy autonomy. Then, Zinzin Moretto, the angry little cabin boy who blows his sax like a storm in the sails, Pat Gigon, the jovial bearded man who bangs on the drum to give rhythm to the efforts of the galley slaves, Ben Body the imperturbable bassist who holds the hull on its bass waves and ensures balance.
Titles performed at the Grand studio
– Islander Live1 watch the clip
– Zinzin Moretto feat. Flavia Coelho, from the album Hôtel Karavan
– Baba Live RFI watch the clip.
Line Up: Toma Feterman (vocals/guitar), Cyril “Zinzin” Moretsaxophone/backing vocals, Ben Body (bass/backing vocals), Pat Gigon (drums/backing vocals).
Sound: Jeremie Besset and Laurie Plisson.
► Album Karavan Hotel (Bud Music 2023).
Then we receive the groupNo Mad in the #LiveSession.
Birds at night was born from the meeting of the texts of Pierre Dodet and the music of Pierre Lordet. Further removed from the fanciful worlds to which the group had accustomed us in its previous albums, NO MAD here wants to be close to people, at the heart of things. Simply, without any artifice. Élodie Lordet’s singing speaks in the first person, it directly touches our most buried emotions, sometimes in caressing melodies (we think of Clara Ysé, Pomme or even Lhasa); sometimes by exploring the raw and telluric emotions that could have been born from the pen of Laurent Faudé. NO MAD here invents an incandescent and timeless poetic folk which can evoke certain productions of Piers Faccini. The arrangements are always careful, sometimes evoking the chiseled orchestrations of Caetano Veloso, and sometimes they are rooted more deeply in raw sounds inspired by the polyphonies of Malicone or the blues of Leyla McCalla.
Birds at night is listened to as we share a precious moment with those we love, full of the energy of life. We vibrate in the harmonics of the songs, crossed by forces which pay homage to nature, to the beauty of things and people.
No Mad was born in 2003 in Grenoble. In 2007, they recorded the album Clovni’s House. The No Mad universe becomes more cinematic with the creation ofEldorado in 2012, an album in English composed by seven hands, flirting between jazz and Central European music to tell its fabulous and fanciful stories. By multiplying meetings and collaborations, then by creating the association La Curieuse, the No Mad group finds itself at the center of a true artistic collective: Lalala Napoli and its Neapolitan trance, the burlesque film concert The Party, the Opera Afortunada and the instrumental group Doc Mad are all projects directly derived from the language that No Mad has been able to construct. Each musician has also developed experiences in other projects, some of which within La Curieuse, notably with the company Haut les Mains.
No Mad’s music has been enriched by these different experiences. Collaborations with Adrien Virat, sound engineer, and Guillaume Tarnaud, lighting engineer and set designer, have also allowed the group to assert its identity through a unique universe. The emotion provoked in concert during the performance of the poem Étranges Étrangers by Jacques Prévert was for the group like a call to move elsewhere, to engage with words. Faithful to his tireless curiosity and his desire to cross aesthetics, No Mad opened up to poetry in 2016, seduced by the texts of Pierre Dodet.
Titles performed at the big studio
– The night Live RFI
– Daughter of the Airfrom the album Birds At Night
– At dawn Live RFI.
Line Up: Pierre Lordetguitar, clarinet, bouzouki, vocals, Elodie Lordet, song, melodica, Elisabeth Renau, cello, vocals, Nicholas Lopez, violin, viola, footbass and François Vinoche, drums, melodica, guitalele, vocals.
Sound: Benoît Letirant and Mathias Taylor.
► Album Birds At Night (La Curieuse / InOuïe Distribution 2023) see the EPK ()
Next Parisian concert 11/23/2023 at the Studio de l’Ermitage.