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HubbubCD release and tour in Australia and New Zealand in February 2025

Jean-Sébastien — 2022-01-01T18:12:21Z

Frédéric Blondy - Bertrand Denzler - Jean-Luc Guionnet - Jean-Sébastien Mariage - Edward Perraud

In 2024, Hubbub is twenty-five years old. Hubbub is one of the only European improv quintets to perform for so long in the same group. Located at the crossroads of several worlds, Hubbub is made up of five musicians whose activities trace multiple ramifications. Together, they work with sound material to create a moving space, populated by strata, stretches, entanglements, welts, pulsations, dots and lines, on the border between acoustics and electricity. The longevity of the group has enabled Hubbub to develop a universe that is more than the sum of its parts.

Hubbub is preparing a tour in Australia and New Zealand for February 2025.

The CD, recorded at Saint-Merry church in August 2019, "abb abb abb" will soon be released on the Relative Pitch Records label.

Click here for a PDF document that describes the group's history

View online : Huubub's website

Guylaine Cosseron and Jean-Sébastien Mariage : Japan tour 2018

Jean-Sébastien — 2022-01-01T18:08:12Z

Guylaine Cosseron : voice
Jean-Sébastien Mariage : electric guitar

The Cosseron / Mariage duo are invited to Japan for 9 concerts in October 2018.

– 6th OTOOTO - Tokyo
– 8th Ftarri - Tokyo
– 9th Studio T Bone with Rabito Arimoto - Osaka
– 12th Rakudouan with Setsuhi Shiraishi - Kanda
– 13th Chakaiki with Naoki Kita - Tokyo
– 14th Airegin with Tetsu Saitoh - Yokohama
– 15th Buddy with Naoto Yamashi, Mamiko Hosokawa and Setsuhi Shiraishi - Tokyo
– 16th FTFTFTF - Nana-Hari with Hideo Ikegami - Tokyo
– 17th 810. Outfit Café with Naoto Yamashi percussions) et Maresuke (Contracello) - Tokyo

This series of concerts will be available in different formats, initially as a duo, then welcoming several Japanese musicians, dancers and calligraphers from the local contemporary scene for a few evenings.

Guylaine Cosseron are Jean-Sébastien Mariage are essential players in the French improvised music scene, but also in Europe and internationally. Together, they have traveled the world for the past fifteen years, presenting their unique vision of improvisation while risking numerous encounters with other international artists. In doing so, they explore not hypothetical differences in cultural identities, but the fertile tension revealed by the gap between civilizations. From this "entry" emerges an unprecedented ensemble, specific to the shared moment, whose vocation is to create a unique listening ground.

The first duo concerts will allow these two French artists to compare their music to the Japanese context, then, through encounters, to question it by listening to contemporary Japanese practices encountered.

List of guest Japanese artists :

• Naoto Yamagishi : percussions - http://www.naotoyamagishi.com

• Naoki Kita : violon - https://www.naoki-kita.com

• Tetsu Saitoh : doublebass - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Okua8bvXF2M

• Rabito Arimoto : trompet - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tR47Ldv-g3U

• Setsuhi Shiraishi : calligraphy - https://www.setsuhi.jp

• Mamiko Hosokawa : danse - http://mamikohosokawa.com/?tag=越生

• Hideo Ikegami : doublebass - http://www.hideoikegami.com

The duet : This duo visits the in-between, not of sound but of its meaning. It is the association and she alone of these two musicians that will define a sound, aesthetic, ethical object; because here each one works elsewhere, limiting by their respective sounds an empty environment, free to any interpretation. Their only will is to create this link which by its mixing, its spinning, will reveal a form which, whatever one says about it, always presents itself as an end. Harnessed exclusively to this attempt, they allow each listener to see better than themselves what will come out of it, not with certainty, but on the contrary, with the distance from oneself that is then imposed.

Guylaine Cosseron and Jean-Sébastien Mariage have been collaborating musically since 2016 in several projects, with the Percussionist Sébastien Bouhana (Drôme), the Grand Orchester Plage Sonore (Normandie)…

This tour benefits from the help of Sacem and Spedidam

Sysiphe

Jean-Sébastien — 2022-01-01T17:59:13Z

Catherine Jauniaux : voice
Jean-Sébastien Mariage : electric guitar
Frederick Galiay : electric bass
Mathias Pontevia : horizontal drums

By clear attacks and short durations, each sound feeds a global matter which is constantly deformed and displaced. Emergency. Permanent revolution. No anticipation possible. Based on rock instrumentation, but stripped of all aesthetic thought, the music takes the form of a circulation of shared unconscious where energy unfolds without concession.

"Orgasmic and pleasurable volcanic satanic orgasm" Anne Kiesel

Full recording of the concert for the Meteo festival- aout 2014

Anne Montaron's show A l'Improviste on the Sisyphe quartet

Ahriman

Jean-Sébastien — 2022-01-01T17:56:33Z

Catherine Jauniaux : voice
Jean-Sébastien Mariage : guitar, composition
David Merlo : electric bass
François Rossi : drums

Le Ciel du Spermatozoïde

La Lune

Le Panaris

Featuring four musicians as seasoned in experimental as popular music, the idea of this new composition is precisely to bring the freedom of imagination, timbre, structure, to a form recognized as song.

The songs operate on a simple idea: the meeting of a refrain and a text. The instrumental part is conceived as a container, colored, with its own form, arousing a particular emotion, having vocation to welcome the voice and the text. The latter are then completely free to place themselves in this space.

During working sessions with Catherine Jauniaux, surrounded by numerous texts and books, it was the writings of Henri Michaux that naturally stood out.

A priori inchantable, they turned out to make sense with music. We know the singular talent of Catherine Jauniaux for whom “everything is changeable”.

The music is thought of as an assembly of simple and easily recognizable codes, freely chosen, and added to form a setting for the voice.

Thus, by dynamic and catchy rhythms, embellished with simple melodies, we will give an original hook that will make the listener available to a particular song, and to texts that combine depth and humor.

La composition

Coming from contemporary and improvised music, Jean-Sébastien Mariage has never severed the solid link he maintains with song. All-terrain guitarist, he has kept for all these years, after all these encounters in fields as vast and diverse as rock (Makhno), abstract (Hubbub), contemporary (Eliane Radigue), a relationship as privileged as it is intimate. with a good number of so-called popular music.

His meeting with Catherine Jauniaux was decisive. They started working together at the end of 2013, playing numerous concerts in duo (Jauniaux / Marriage), Trio ("L'Amour" with Xavier Charles), Quartet (Sisyphus with Frederick Galiay and Mathias Pontevia).

By dint of searching together, allowing each other the greatest possible freedoms, the song came to interfere in their work, naturally. Rather than continuing in pairs, they decide to create a full-fledged group, with a rhythm section.

After more than twenty years of sound, timbral and formal research, Jean-Sébastien Mariage addresses the desire to put this experience at the service of more accessible music, which uses codes common to a large audience. These codes (repetitive and catchy rhythms and melodies) are arranged freely, without worrying about reproducing an existing aesthetic. This allows him to bring out sounds that are not usually used in this music.

« Beyond a few illustrious (amplified) guitarists who have marked the history of jazz, the great development of the sonic qualities of the electric guitar was initiated mainly by rock guitarists, most often through unconscious experiences and not premeditated. But the possibilities that these musicians have revealed are now consciously enlarged by a large number of avant-garde guitarists who cannot be assimilated neither to rock, nor to jazz, nor really to electronic music, but who are at the center of the development and preoccupations of all these musical forms, with as an anchor: improvisation. Jean-Marc Montera, Stephan Wittwer and today Jean-Sébastien Mariage are, among others, part of this family of musicians who perpetuate the clearing and who in one way or another, through new techniques or new (electronic) materials make the instrument evolve, transcend it, open it up to unexpected sounds, to unsuspected music. From Hendrix to Bailey, the electric guitar has become an instrument susceptible to questioning preconceived notions about the real nature of music and sound and its true artistic and political functions. »

Théo Jarrier - Improjazz

Henri Michaux (Namur, 24 mai 1899 – Paris, 19 octobre 1984) est un écrivain, poète et peintre d'origine belge d'expression française naturalisé français en 1955.

Henri Michaux is one of the writers who have been able to best recreate the human experience in its psychological, spiritual and bodily dimensions, and its two tragic and comic sides. Suffering is at the heart of his work, nourished by an impression of lack (“I was born with holes”, Ecuador), the perception of the body as an obstacle, a metaphysical anguish that both exterior and interior journeys fail to appease, and the insatiable search for a way to escape, to loosen the grip of belonging. His writing, both tense and casual, abstract and somatic, lyrical and logical, combines the intensity of emotion and the distance of humor. His poems, in free verse or in prose, go from the conciseness of the aphorism to the lyrical scale, and multiply the registers: imprecation, murmur, sarcasm, complaint, extravagance. The only constant is a radical distrust of language, the fallacious coherence of which he exalted with exaltation to "show the interior sentence, the sentence without words": a dry, nervous, panting, vibrant rhythm, an inventive syntax and repetitive, lexical creations and onomatopoeias, recreate (through violence) but also recreate (through humor) the language.

Source : Larousse.fr