Marion Cousin
BIO
There are commitments whose delineations are only defined by a territory. The series initiated in 2016 by Marion Cousin prompts an exploration of the Iberian Peninsula through its enchanted traditions, and creates for to each region a singular collaboration, born from her desires, encounters and friendships. Marion’s voice embarks us and sails away, leaves the islands of Minorca and Majorca, where the plowing and reaping songs mingled with sad epics and Gaspar Claus‘ cello, in “Jo estava que m’abrasava – Work songs from Minorca and Majorca” (2016), to take us with Kaumwald to the Estremadura, a remote region of Spain, documented in his time by Luis Buñuel, who was fascinated by its aridity, its harshness, the poor existence of its residents, the isolation of its villages. Together, they record “Tu rabo par’abanico – Romances de Extremadura” (2020).
Kaumwald is founded by Ernest Bergez and Clement Vercelletto, who, together, also form two third of the trio Orgue Agnès. From there, if we dig a little, we can see appear a large family of musicians who like to break away from genres and create sounds with today’s instruments as if they had been found in antiques stores. Ernest is also Sourdure, a solo project unearthing French folk songs, with his violin, his voice, and a few machines making coarse sounds in ways only he knows the secret.
The duo adorns the songs chosen by Marion with an organic electricity, floating through the letters, seeping in the syllables, and reveals the flawed groove of these ritornellos that seem to have never stopped repeating themselves. The trio emerging here offers eight titles, which were arranged in an old barn where almost-closed electrical circuits were set up. Beside the impregnation and transformation of the songs, for a rendering both strange and sharp, these electrical circuits also contributed to the rhythmic, harmonic and textural foundations for this successful attempt of transmission of texts and melodies borrowed from the collective memory, from the people, often rural, who like to tell stories and provide an expanded spectrum to our existences.
The duo adorns the songs chosen by Marion with an organic electricity, floating through the letters, seeping in the syllables, and reveals the flawed groove of these ritornellos that seem to have never stopped repeating themselves. The trio emerging here offers eight titles, which were arranged in an old barn where almost-closed electrical circuits were set up. Beside the impregnation and transformation of the songs, for a rendering both strange and sharp, these electrical circuits also contributed to the rhythmic, harmonic and textural foundations for this successful attempt of transmission of texts and melodies borrowed from the collective memory, from the people, often rural, who like to tell stories and provide an expanded spectrum to our existences.
LINE-UP:
Marion Cousin & Gaspar Claus
Marion Cousin: voice
Gaspar Claus: cello
Marion Cousin & Kaumwald
Marion Cousin: voice, shruti-box, percussion
Ernest Bergez: electronics, violin, dotâr, percussion
Clément Vercelletto: electronics, percussion, shruti-box
Marion Cousin & Eloïse Decazes
Instrumentarium : vocals, synthesizers and organs, bulbul tarang, electric guitar, concertina, cassette player, accordion, percussion, piano
→ Interview on ‘Hémisphère son’
Co-production : Murailles Music, CERC – centre de creacion musicau, GMEA – Centre National de Création Musicale d’Albi, L’Inconnue
LINKS
PRESS
CONTACT
Booking : Julien Bitaudeau
Promo : Varvara Papaspanopoulou
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Marion Cousin & Kaumwald – Gerineldo Fils from Gaspar Claus on Vimeo.
Marion Cousin & Kaumwald 'Gerineldo Fils' (2020)
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Marion Cousin & Kaumwald 'Mi carbonero' (2020)
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Marion Cousin & Kaumwald 'Las bodas de Inesilla y el Brillante' (2020)
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Marion Cousin & Gaspar Claus 'Arreu arreu segadors' (2016)
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Marion Cousin & Gaspar Claus 'Jo estava que m'abrasava' (live au Consulat, 25/05/2022)
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Marion Cousin & Kaumwald live au Consulat 25/05/2022
DISCOGRAPHIE
Tu rabo par’abanico
Les Disques du Festival Permanent / Le Saule2020
LP / CD / Digital
Jo estava que m’abrasava
Les Disques du Festival Permanent / Le Saule2016
LP / CD / Digital
Past shows
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- 19/08/2023SuisseGenève (CH)Théâtre de l'Orangerie& Kaumwaldinfos event
- 18/08/2023FranceNexon (87)festival MULTi-PiSTES, le Sirque& Kaumwaldinfos event
- 03/02/2023SuisseNeuchâtel (CH)Case à Chocs & Kaumwald // Sara Oswaldinfos event
- 02/02/2023FranceLyon (69)Le Sonic& Kaumwaldinfos event
- 16/12/2022FrancePantin (93)La Dynamo - Banlieues BleuesKaumwald ll No Tonguesinfos event
- 15/12/2022Pays-BasRotterdam (NL)WORMKaumwaldinfos event
- 30/07/2022FranceBanyuls-sur-Mer (66)Festival de la RectorieGaspar Claus
- 28/05/2022BelgiqueBruxelles (BE)La CheminéeKAUMWALD
- 27/05/2022FranceCherbourg (50)Le RéaumeKAUMWALD
- 26/05/2022FranceNantes (44)Festival Wine Nat White Heat, Atelier de BitcheKAUMWALD
- 25/05/2022FranceParis (75)Le Consulat, Souffle(s) #27Gaspar Claus, KAUMWALD
- 03/09/2021FranceVanves (92)Théâtre de VanvesGaspar Claus
- 03/07/2021FranceRennes (35)Les Tombées de la Nuit, Carte blanche au festival Autres Mesures, Chapelle du ConservatoireKAUMWALD
- 02/07/2021FranceCinq-Mars-La-Pile (37)Il PompeiKAUMWALD
- 01/07/2021FranceParis (75)Festival Sonic Protest, Le CENTQUATREKAUMWALD
- 08/02/2020FrancePoitiers (86)Festival Filmer le travail, Lieu MultipleGaspar Claus
- 01/09/2019FranceAiguelèze (81)Festival Baignade interditeGaspar Claus
- 13/06/2019FranceBourges (18)Le NadirKaumwald ll Verydubinfos
- 22/09/2018FrancePerpignan (66)Festival JazzèbreGaspar Claus
- 20/04/2018EspagneCórdoba (ES)Festival Beautiful Movers, Patio de la Diputación de CórdobaGaspar Claus
- 21/03/2018EspagneMadrid (ES)Festival de Arte Sacro, Sala Cuarta Pared Gaspar Claus
- 21/11/2017FranceParis (75)Café de la DanseValparaiso, Gaspar Claus
- 27/10/2017FranceOrléans (45)RAMI, Scène NationaleGaspar Claus
- 09/08/2017FranceMens (38)Festival Mens AlorsGaspar Claus
- 15/07/2017FranceArles (13)Festival ConvivénciaGaspar Claus
- 08/03/2017FrancePoitiers (86)Auditorium Saint-Germain (orga. Le Confort Moderne)Gaspar Claus event
- 15/12/2016FranceParis (75)Espace en coursGaspar Claus
- 11/06/2016FranceParis (75)Le BalGaspar Claus
- 15/04/2016FranceLes Lilas (93)Le TritonGaspar Claus
events
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Marion Cousin & Kaumwald – Gerineldo Fils from Gaspar Claus on Vimeo.
Marion Cousin & Kaumwald 'Gerineldo Fils' (2020)
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Marion Cousin & Kaumwald 'Mi carbonero' (2020)
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Marion Cousin & Kaumwald 'Las bodas de Inesilla y el Brillante' (2020)
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Marion Cousin & Gaspar Claus 'Arreu arreu segadors' (2016)
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Marion Cousin & Gaspar Claus 'Jo estava que m'abrasava' (live au Consulat, 25/05/2022)
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Marion Cousin & Kaumwald live au Consulat 25/05/2022
BIO
There are commitments whose delineations are only defined by a territory. The series initiated in 2016 by Marion Cousin prompts an exploration of the Iberian Peninsula through its enchanted traditions, and creates for to each region a singular collaboration, born from her desires, encounters and friendships. Marion’s voice embarks us and sails away, leaves the islands of Minorca and Majorca, where the plowing and reaping songs mingled with sad epics and Gaspar Claus‘ cello, in “Jo estava que m’abrasava – Work songs from Minorca and Majorca” (2016), to take us with Kaumwald to the Estremadura, a remote region of Spain, documented in his time by Luis Buñuel, who was fascinated by its aridity, its harshness, the poor existence of its residents, the isolation of its villages. Together, they record “Tu rabo par’abanico – Romances de Extremadura” (2020).
Kaumwald is founded by Ernest Bergez and Clement Vercelletto, who, together, also form two third of the trio Orgue Agnès. From there, if we dig a little, we can see appear a large family of musicians who like to break away from genres and create sounds with today’s instruments as if they had been found in antiques stores. Ernest is also Sourdure, a solo project unearthing French folk songs, with his violin, his voice, and a few machines making coarse sounds in ways only he knows the secret.
The duo adorns the songs chosen by Marion with an organic electricity, floating through the letters, seeping in the syllables, and reveals the flawed groove of these ritornellos that seem to have never stopped repeating themselves. The trio emerging here offers eight titles, which were arranged in an old barn where almost-closed electrical circuits were set up. Beside the impregnation and transformation of the songs, for a rendering both strange and sharp, these electrical circuits also contributed to the rhythmic, harmonic and textural foundations for this successful attempt of transmission of texts and melodies borrowed from the collective memory, from the people, often rural, who like to tell stories and provide an expanded spectrum to our existences.
The duo adorns the songs chosen by Marion with an organic electricity, floating through the letters, seeping in the syllables, and reveals the flawed groove of these ritornellos that seem to have never stopped repeating themselves. The trio emerging here offers eight titles, which were arranged in an old barn where almost-closed electrical circuits were set up. Beside the impregnation and transformation of the songs, for a rendering both strange and sharp, these electrical circuits also contributed to the rhythmic, harmonic and textural foundations for this successful attempt of transmission of texts and melodies borrowed from the collective memory, from the people, often rural, who like to tell stories and provide an expanded spectrum to our existences.
LINE-UP:
Marion Cousin & Gaspar Claus
Marion Cousin: voice
Gaspar Claus: cello
Marion Cousin & Kaumwald
Marion Cousin: voice, shruti-box, percussion
Ernest Bergez: electronics, violin, dotâr, percussion
Clément Vercelletto: electronics, percussion, shruti-box
Marion Cousin & Eloïse Decazes
Instrumentarium : vocals, synthesizers and organs, bulbul tarang, electric guitar, concertina, cassette player, accordion, percussion, piano
→ Interview on ‘Hémisphère son’
Co-production : Murailles Music, CERC – centre de creacion musicau, GMEA – Centre National de Création Musicale d’Albi, L’Inconnue
LINKS
PRESS
DISCOGRAPHIE
Tu rabo par’abanico
Les Disques du Festival Permanent / Le Saule2020
LP / CD / Digital
Jo estava que m’abrasava
Les Disques du Festival Permanent / Le Saule2016
LP / CD / Digital
CONTACT
Booking : Julien Bitaudeau
Promo : Varvara Papaspanopoulou