FAMEthe music film festival returns in 2022 for its 8th edition!
We receive Olivier Forest, co-founder of FAME and Florent de la Tullaye, short film director Sitos, Kinshasa on the alert.
With a close-up on 3 films in competition which put Congolese rumba and the Democratic Republic of Congo in the spotlight:
– Rumba Rules, new genealogies – by David N. Bernatchez and Sammy Baloji.
– Bakolo Music International – by Tom Vantorre and Benjamin Viré.
– The Rumba Kings – by Alan Brain.
The international music film festival is back from February 16 to 20, 2022 at the Lyrical gaiety (and at the Center Wallonie Bruxelles, for a pre-launch evening outside the walls) for five days of screenings, meetings and audiovisual performances. And with, more than ever, the desire to find the room and the big screen, and thus offer a real collective experience. Explosion in the number of productions, budgets, audience, media coverage… At a time when musical documentaries are enjoying unprecedented popularity, FAME is increasingly asserting itself as the unmissable event of the genre.
With many exclusive films, FAME presents a largely original program: twenty films on music, which give pride of place to singular figures, electronic odysseys, underground or extra-Western cultures.
From the often difficult fate of the pioneers of folk and punk to Amanda Lear, from the gabber to the autistic artists of Astereotypie, FAME takes cross roads and celebrates singular figures, all of whom have something to tell us about our world. And while the Congolese rumba has just become a UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity, FAME celebrates this fabulous musical epic in its own way: no less than three films in competition, a round table, DJ sets and many people invited! And because FAME feeds on the energy of music, the festival continues outside the venues with meetings (FAME LAB), performances (FAME LIVE) and DJ sets with free access (FAME PARTY), not to mention a program for families (FAME KIDS). And because FAME is now an unmissable event that attests to the success of musical documentaries, professional meetings are also on the program that bring together authors and authors, production figures, broadcasting or rights distribution companies, but also platforms , for a series of thematic meetings.
Artistic curator: Benoît Hické and Olivier Forest.
Production: La Gaîté Lyrique in partnership with AMORE.
FAME is a founding member of the Music Film Festival Network.
playlist
– Abungaka Motorcycle by Rochereau & Nico & Mujos & the African Fiesta
– Bakolo Music International
– Dj Sitos
– Paul Kamba by Wendo Kolosoy
Then the #Session Live receives Mandy Lerouge for the release of the album The Madrugada (Pias/Believe)
Documentary by Francesco Garbo.
The Madrugada, by Mandy Lerouge: the flight of a voice.
Self-taught singer who grew up in the Hautes-Alpes, Mandy Lerouge has been taming the world of music for a good ten years, through adventures that lead her from jazz to classical music via trip-hop, without forgetting a training as a sound engineer and experience as a journalist . In 2014, a first trip to Argentina introduced her to the culture of its northern countryside and she fell in love as much with its music as with the horseback expeditions with the Gauchos who roam the region watching over their herds – Mandy has been a horse rider since her childhood. young age.
Now based in Marseille, she has matured her project and nurtured it with meetings with several figures of Argentine music: Chango Spasiuk, Raúl Barboza, Melingo…
Then at the beginning of 2020, she returned to these lands and, like a worthy heiress of Alan Lomax, collected what would become the repertoire of this first album so personal and at the same time so catchy… Several fairies leaned over her cradle: Vincent Segal who carried out the production by “encouraging takes without headphones and the proximity of the musicians”, Gérard de Haro who organized his studio-setting in La Buissonne to adapt to this rare “live” configuration (“I’ve only seen this two or three times in my life !”), and of course the musicians; the Argentinian pianist Lalo Zanelli to the sensual game who also signed the arrangements, his compatriot the percussionist Javier Estrella all in restrained flamboyance, the Colombian double bassist Felipe Nicholls, discreet architect, and as a bonus an intense appearance of the accomplice Melingo.
Not only has Mandy Lerouge won her bet, but she’s also giving us a lesson in cultural intelligence. In this quasi-telepathic recording where the melodic elegance of the ballads seems to be punctuated by the trotting of the horses and the racing hearts, she transcends with her magnetic voice these dances of oral tradition (the chamamé, the chacarera, the zamba and a rascal tango zest). A child of crossbreeding – her father is Malagasy and her mother French – she appropriates these popular musics which are themselves crossbreeds and makes them flourish in a new hybridization, a chamber music of today where jazz and even rock are never far away.
Trans-culturality? Salutary effect of globalization? All this at the same time certainly but without forgetting the main thing: this “madrugada” which means “the dawn” must also be read as the metaphor of the flight of a great voice. Pascal Bussy.
Titles performed at the Grand studio
– Between A Mi Pago Sin Golpear LIVE RFI
– The Night Feat. Melingo, from the album The Madrugada see the clip
– Romance of the Luna Tucumana LIVE RFI bandcamp.
Musicians
-Javier Estrellapercussion
-Manu Guerreropiano
– Mandy Lerougesong.
His : Benoit Letirant and Mathias Taylor.