The 1time artist is Emmanuelle Parrenin for the release of his 3rd album Targala, The House That Isn’t One (Johnkool Records).
Emmanuelle Parrenin has always been a collector of sounds: she learns music clandestinely and instinctively by reproducing on a piano the melodies she hears escaping from the family home, where music resounds everywhere: her father directs the Parrenin Quartet, and his mother is a harp teacher. In 1978, she released pink house, synthesis of ten years of folk journey and exploration of traditional sounds. In 1990, following a serious accident, she became deaf. She heals by re-educating her ears through the sounds of her voice and the resonance of her instruments. Throughout her travels, she collects all kinds of healing instruments and is interested in medicine songs and all the traditional techniques that exploit the therapeutic dimension of sound. In 2011, thirty years after pink houseshe records cubic house which pursues the folk adventure as it has always conceived it: mixed with psychedelia, jazz and shamanism. The years 2011-2012 mark her encounter with electronic music: Emmanuelle then multiplies collaborations with artists such as Etienne Jaumet, Eat Gas, Vincent Segal, Pierre Bastien, Detlev Weinreich a.k.a Toulouse Low Trax…
His path crosses that of Colin Johnco, in 2017, during a concert where he was invited, off the cuff, to put effects on the instrumental variations of Emmanuelle. From there, the desire to create together takes shape and from encounters to improvisations, they gradually draw the outlines of a common project. Emmanuelle on composition, instruments and voice, Colin on effects and production. The final chapter of the Houses trilogy is called Targala, the house that isn’t. Inspired in part by her trip to the gates of the desert, where Emmanuelle found herself stranded at the start of confinement. She will end up by becoming friends with the landscape, the stones and the sand, in constant change. A daring and timeless record, which takes us into psychedelic meanders, to return to fragile and acoustic moments. Between an abyssal sensory plunge and a nursery rhyme whispered in the hollow of the ear. We find there Etienne Jaumet and Cosmic Neman of the group Zombie Zombie, Eat G, Paulie Jan, Peter Combard, Léo Margue, Quentin Rollet, Gaspar Claus and Philippe Foch.
For information, the director Marie Elise Beyne made a documentary about her”From one house to another” which was screened at the FAME festival in Paris, at the Gaîté Lyrique.
The other guest is called Lehna. She presents her album O line (Unheard of Distribution).
A voice, songs that evoke Lhasa, Bird On A Wireor Joan Baez, in an album sung in English, French and Spanish.
Lehna travel. On his 1er opus, Valparaiso Bay, the singer-songwriter accompanied herself on guitar, violin and charango.
This time, she surrounded herself with a swarm of talented musicians for a collective album. Strings, brass instruments, voices and percussion lead us to line O, this emblematic bus line of the port city of Valparaiso in Chile, which is gradually becoming a skyline.
In her writing as in her interpretation, Lehna discards all artifice to focus on emotion, breath, the hand clenched very hard. Whether she sings in English, Spanish, French or Romanian, she speaks to us in an intimate, modest and vibrant way at the same time. It is about a loved one, loneliness, memory, wandering… So many concerns linked to absolute sincerity. The contrast between stripped folk writing and the richness of the arrangements creates a marvelous break in the passing time. Lehna travels and takes us on the most beautiful of bus lines: a line where passengers converse intensely and together contemplate the beauty of the world.
Performed titles
– La ReveliniereLive RFI Emmanuelle Parrenin
– CosechaLive RFI Lehna see the clip
– Drawsfrom the album Targala, the house is not one by Emmanuelle Parredin
– The TideLive RFI from Lehna
– between meLive RFI by Emmanuelle Parrenin
– If the World Goesfrom the album O line of Lehna.
musicians
– Emmanuelle Parrenin, vocals, spruce
– Eat Gasguitar, keyboards
-Lehnavoice, guitar, charango.
Sound: Fabien Mugneret & Mathias Taylor.