BlauBird

Catalyse Prize at the “Prix Moustaki 2023”

Coup de Coeur at the Académie Charles Cros 2023

Finalist for the Prix Joséphine des Artistes 2023

BlauBird features a captivating, deep voice reminiscent of opera. Delicate lyrics and nocturnal melodies, both soft and powerful. There is also melancholy and poetic flight. After singing Mahler, Dowland, and Schubert for many years, BlauBird offers us her abandonment to herself, her strangeness, and her raw emotions. She thus asserts a unique identity in the world of contemporary song, at once demanding, melodious, and nourished by influences from around the world.

Nomadic tracks, where the influences of Barbara, Joan Baez, and Sinead O'Connor mingle with the scent of classical arpeggios and multiple languages (French, but also sometimes English, Yiddish, Arabic, and Spanish), which BlauBird handles as well as her exaltation, on which we fly away to rediscover her roots in Eastern Europe and lose ourselves in the hanging gardens of the Orient.

A TRANSFORMED NIGHT 
“The bird inside me flies wherever it wants”

This quintet performance brings together songs by BlauBird (from his two previous albums and a few from his upcoming release) and blends them with classical influences, world music sounds, and jazz improvisations.

The inspiration for this show, Schönberg's Transfigured Night, made BlauBird's heart beat faster... This work from the turn of the 20th century tells a story of love that is lyrical, desperate, passionate, excessive, and daring for its time... where freedom of tone pushes the boundaries of composition. Arranged for violin, saxophone, tarhu, and percussion by Olivier Slabiak, it opens, punctuates, and closes this concert, which we enter as if entering the night, only to emerge transformed in the morning.

Like the night, which blurs the contours of reality, languages vibrate strangely and mingle lovingly (French, Yiddish, Arabic, English, Spanish...) to break down boundaries, bring hearts together and create the “whole world” described by Edouard Glissant.

“Like life itself, my hope is that this show will be an opportunity to journey through the night, which can be “bright and clear” but also dark and terrible. We encounter all our psychological states, meet those who are absent, awaken our imaginations, transform our expectations, doubts, and desires, renew our vows, and, at the dawn of ‘all the mornings of the world,’ to borrow Pascal Quignard's expression, we are reborn with, in our hearts, hopefully, with bursts of love and transfigured hopes..." BlauBird

“Rarely does an artist's soul shine through so clearly in her voice.” 
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