During this #SessionLive, 2 groups will follow one another, Saodaj and his nomadic and folk maloya and the hallucinated flute of Yann Cléry and his double ” Yann Solo “.
Our 1st guests Saodaj arrive from the southern hemisphere, Reunion Island, to present their first album ” laz ».
If Reunion is a crossroads where the cultures of the world meet, Saodaj could be one of its symbols. A music that questions, through the Creole and French language, the beauties and excesses of our world.
After 300 concerts in Reunion and abroad, Marie Lanfroy, Jonathan Itema and their group devote themselves to the realization of their first album: laz (age in Reunion Creole).
After a lifetime of travel, Marie Lanfroy finds his native Reunion. Going from kabar to kabar, the one who had so few memories of her island discovers the Maloya in which she immerses herself completely. She begins to write, sing and forms the group Saodaj at the end of 2011. At the same time, she began several artistic collaborations ranging from electro to dance and theater. She is an author, composer, performer and also a photographer who graduated from the École Supérieure d’Art de La Réunion.
Author, composer and performer, graduate of Reunionese Music at the Conservatory, Jonathan Itema is the rhythmic pillar of Saodaj. In addition, he evolves as a percussionist and chorister in various musical formations, in particular with Tyéri Abmon, Zangoun and Tizarboutan. His maloya is sometimes colored with urban rhythms.
Eclectic musician. Melanie Badal received classical training at the Regional Conservatory of Paris. She obtained her Prize by presenting a composition for solo cello, Réminiscences. She obtained her musical license with Fibo, an original composition for 5 musicians and 2 dancers, created at Pôle Sup’ 93 in 2014. Lulled by the music of her Armenian origins, she also went to meet musicians to mix the cello in the sounds traditional music. Since 2017, she has been based in Reunion to teach within the DEMOS system. It matches the rhythm of maloya.
Frederick Cipriano expanded his passion for African music through several trips to West Africa. Arrived in Reunion in 2005, he trained in maloya with Tyéri Abmon, from which he emerged after six years with a percussive palette extending from the West African coasts to the borders of the Indian Ocean.
Blaise Cadenet was born in Reunion, he learned to play the guitar with his parents. As a teenager, he formed and participated in several high-psychedelic rock bands such as the Poikés, Lazy jellyfish, venus blackgun, ayahuesca. At 23, he joined the MAI music school in Nancy, where he studied jazz and sound recording. Returning to Reunion after three years, he threw himself into electronic music and poetic writing and prepared the recording of two albums “ home made for his group Venus Blackgun, which should be released in 2022. He joins the group Saodaj for the “Laz” tour scheduled for 2022.
Better known by the nickname “ Toto », Zéliton Deliron, self-taught musician, native of the Port is passionate about world music. A collector of flutes and other ethnic instruments, he enriched himself with various musical influences through his travels, concerts and encounters. A versatile artist, he collaborates with many groups from Reunion and the Indian Ocean area. His universe being from jazz to traditional music.
Titles performed in the large studio
-Laz Live RFI
-Serge from the album Laz see the clip
– Monmon Kolonel Live see the clip.
Line-up: Marie Lanfroy : leader, vocals, Kayambe, bobr, loop; Jonathan Itema : 2nd leader, vocals, roulèr, doum, sati piker; Melanie Badal : cello, triangle, loop, voice; Zélito Deliron : singing, roulèr, doum, bobr, flutes; Frederick Cipriano : sati piker, triangle, heel and Blaise Cadenet : vocals, guitar, triangle, loop.
Sound: Mathias Taylor and Benoît Letirant.
►album laz (Daydream Music/Kas Kas Production/The Other Distribution 2023)
Then we welcome Guyanese flautist Yann Cléry for his new album Yann Solo.
Yann Cléry, Guyanese flautist and singer who we have already seen alongside Mo’Kalamity or within Chlorine Free, embarks on a solo adventure, soberly titled Yann Solo. Nothing to do here with a space opera, even if like a Jedi, Yann wields his laser flute with dexterity and skillfully tames the machines that accompany him in this musical production which offers us 12 exceptional titles. From the first opening track, he announces the color with the anthem “Afropunk”. Because that’s where his roots come from: afro in the affirmation of his creoleness, and definitely punk in the soul and the energy he deploys. The rest of the album is subtly refined and asserts itself in sound nuances. Reggae dancehall with ” Starter » on which Queen Omega puts her voice as a guest, French touch with accents of electropical pop with titles like « Eva ” which speaks of filiation, “ French Accent ” Or ” let’s stay good friends ” which turn in self-mockery a very French arrogance or a romantic separation, trip hop with the sublime “ kind of blues », a little gem worthy of the best hours of Massive Attack, or ragga-jungle with « stop racism » and the energetic « Furious Dancehall “. Peregrinations that also take us on a “Voyage en flutisie”, because Yann is also an accomplished jazz musician who handles his instrument with virtuosity, summoning the elements “Water” and “Fire », during interludes that punctuate the album or addressing the « Wind and Moon » to conclude this opus. A disc created between Paris and Guyana and mixed in London in a sound-system spirit with big English bass highlighted and voices treated as instruments. To be stored somewhere in his ideal playlist, between Asian Dub, Tricky, Dowdelin, David Walters or Roots Manuva…
Alone on stage, he deploys an energy and a sensuality that leaves no one indifferent and proves to be explosive in his new project. Yann Solo. One would almost believe that there are several of them, an electro man-orchestra tamer of machines, he sings, plays the flute and builds his music based on live sampled loops and live triggered programming, splitting into multiple clones, we leading in its sound loops in an energetic sound system between ragga, hip hop, soul and jazz improvisation. A “Nèg Marron with attitude”, a kind of “Guyane Dub Foundation” all by itself, a cartoon character à la Gorillaz…: it’s a bit of all of this at the same time that emerges from this show, ready to ignite the dance floors!
Titles performed at the big studio
-Afropunk Live RFI see the clip
– choke Feat. Queen Omega
– Kind Of Blues Live RFI.
Line Up: Yann Cleryvoice, flute.
Sound: Mathias Taylor and Benoît Letirant
► album Yann Solo (autoprod 2023)
see the clip Furious Dancehall.