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Variations, Legowelt & Etienne - freely inspired by the works of Manu Dibango
directed by Nathan Benisty; produced by Sourdoreille Production, France Télévisions, Radio France and Théâtre du Châtelet; performed by Legowelt and Étienne Jaumet, 1970-, in Variations (Paris, Ile-de-France: Qwest TV, 2021), 33 mins
The French television series Variations focused on bringing together electronic players in a duo setting to compose new music inspired by a variety of artists. It stated: “The tone is set with a timeless recipe where four duos from different musical worlds—between electronic and scholarly music—offer a creat...
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directed by Nathan Benisty; produced by Sourdoreille Production, France Télévisions, Radio France and Théâtre du Châtelet; performed by Legowelt and Étienne Jaumet, 1970-, in Variations (Paris, Ile-de-France: Qwest TV, 2021), 33 mins
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The French television series Variations focused on bringing together electronic players in a duo setting to compose new music inspired by a variety of artists. It stated: “The tone is set with a timeless recipe where four duos from different musical worlds—between electronic and scholarly music—offer a creation around a common repertoire.” In this episode, recorded on Septembre 30, 2021, the West Coast Dutch technofunk producer Legowelt m...
The French television series Variations focused on bringing together electronic players in a duo setting to compose new music inspired by a variety of artists. It stated: “The tone is set with a timeless recipe where four duos from different musical worlds—between electronic and scholarly music—offer a creation around a common repertoire.” In this episode, recorded on Septembre 30, 2021, the West Coast Dutch technofunk producer Legowelt meets up with French alto saxophonist and electronics player Etienne Jaumet to perform a grooved and mysteriously spacey show inspired by the renowned France-based saxophonist/vibraphonist Manu Dibango (who passed away at 86 from Covid-19 on 24 March 2020). Dibango’s music is a groundbreaking fusion of jazz, funk and his native Cameroon traditional sound. He broke onto the worldwide scene in 1972 with his best-known hit song “Soul Makossa,” that was illicitly sampled later on pop songs by both Michael Jackson and Rihanna. Legowelt, who grooved to the funk-fueled music behind his electronic setup, had posted a preview online that the show at the Théâtre du Châtelet in Paris was “a great honor as I have been enchanted by his magical music.” The sentiment was no doubt shared by Jaumet, best known in France for his legendary electronics group Zombie Zombie. He played electronics and dynamically blew his alto, playing the themes but then launching into long jazzy improvisations. He and Legowelt often played call-and-response lines in the beat. Both also sang with the use of vocoders, again engaging in energetic conversations. The large Covid-masked crowd in the theater rewarded the pair with a well-deserved, enthusiastic standing ovation. Dan Ouellette
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Date Written / Recorded
2021-09-30
Field of Study
Popular Music
Content Type
Performance
Performer / Ensemble
Legowelt, Étienne Jaumet, 1970-
Contributor
Sourdoreille Production, France Télévisions, Radio France, Théâtre du Châtelet
Author / Creator
Nathan Benisty, Legowelt, Étienne Jaumet, 1970-
Date Published / Released
2021
Publisher
Qwest TV
Series
Variations
Topic / Theme
Electronic
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Variations, Season 3, Gold Panda & Anoushka Shankar play Ravi Shankar
produced by Sourdoreille Production and East India Company; performed by Gold Panda, 1980- and Anoushka Shankar, 1981-, in Variations, Season 3 (Paris, Ile-de-France: Qwest TV, 2018), 29 mins
In its third season, France TV’s Variations continued to bring together stars of the electronic world with contemporary instrumental artists to see how their collaborations would play out in a live performance setting. In this show during the 2018 third-season at la Salle Wagram in Paris, the episode features ri...
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produced by Sourdoreille Production and East India Company; performed by Gold Panda, 1980- and Anoushka Shankar, 1981-, in Variations, Season 3 (Paris, Ile-de-France: Qwest TV, 2018), 29 mins
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In its third season, France TV’s Variations continued to bring together stars of the electronic world with contemporary instrumental artists to see how their collaborations would play out in a live performance setting. In this show during the 2018 third-season at la Salle Wagram in Paris, the episode features rising-star British techno Gold Panda (aka Derwin Schlecker from the London-Essex border) joining the genre-defying sitar star Anoushka S...
In its third season, France TV’s Variations continued to bring together stars of the electronic world with contemporary instrumental artists to see how their collaborations would play out in a live performance setting. In this show during the 2018 third-season at la Salle Wagram in Paris, the episode features rising-star British techno Gold Panda (aka Derwin Schlecker from the London-Essex border) joining the genre-defying sitar star Anoushka Shankar in interpreting the legacy of her father Ravi Shankar. He was the world-class maestro sitarist who introduced the Western world to Indian classical music. In that extraordinary crossover, he schooled a range of popular musicians, from George Harrison of the Beatles to classical minimalist composer Philip Glass. Gold Panda and Anoushka form a collaborative bridge between the acoustic-digital divide as their program features the two on an electronica journey through Ravi’s cosmos. Anoushka is Ravi’s daughter. She started playing the sitar under his tutelage when she was 7. She made her professional debut when she was 13, playing in her dad’s group that became her school for learning the life of the ragas that her father espoused. At the beginning of the Variations set, the duo played archival audio capturing Ravi’s wisdom: “Ragas are precisely melody forms; each raga has its own ascending and descending.” In the show Gold delivered electronic beats, showering with electronic voices and rhythms providing the undergirding. Anouska was certainly highlighted with her soulful, serene, magical and mysterious voicings on the strings. She too dipped into electronica with her pedals and effects during her jazz-fueled improvisations. Her father was her musical guru who taught her to explore beyond the traditional. Here with soulful grooves and sitar virtuosity, Anouska has taken ragas, with the support of Gold Panda, into exciting new sonic vistas. Dan Ouellette
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Date Written / Recorded
2018
Field of Study
Popular Music
Content Type
Performance
Performer / Ensemble
Gold Panda, 1980-, Anoushka Shankar, 1981-
Contributor
Sourdoreille Production, East India Company
Author / Creator
Gold Panda, 1980-, Anoushka Shankar, 1981-
Date Published / Released
2018
Publisher
Qwest TV
Series
Variations
Person Discussed
Ravi Shankar, 1920-2012
Topic / Theme
Electronic
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Variations, Season 6, Vitalic & Emel - freely inspired by the works of Ghada al-Samman
directed by Nathan Benisty; produced by Sourdoreille Production, Théâtre du Châtelet and Radio France; performed by Vitalic, 1976- and Emel Mathlouthi, 1982-, in Variations, Season 6 (Paris, Ile-de-France: Qwest TV, 2021), 33 mins
For its sixth season, the Variations team brings together Pascal Arbez-Nicolas, aka Vitalic, the master of the French electronic scene, and the composer-activist Emel Mathlouthi, whose first album released in 2011, Ma parole est libre, has become an emblem of the Tunisian Jasmine Revolution. Filmed on September 30...
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directed by Nathan Benisty; produced by Sourdoreille Production, Théâtre du Châtelet and Radio France; performed by Vitalic, 1976- and Emel Mathlouthi, 1982-, in Variations, Season 6 (Paris, Ile-de-France: Qwest TV, 2021), 33 mins
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For its sixth season, the Variations team brings together Pascal Arbez-Nicolas, aka Vitalic, the master of the French electronic scene, and the composer-activist Emel Mathlouthi, whose first album released in 2011, Ma parole est libre, has become an emblem of the Tunisian Jasmine Revolution. Filmed on September 30, 2021, this recording is a rare moment of symbiosis between two artists who normally have very different viewpoints, exchanging a few...
For its sixth season, the Variations team brings together Pascal Arbez-Nicolas, aka Vitalic, the master of the French electronic scene, and the composer-activist Emel Mathlouthi, whose first album released in 2011, Ma parole est libre, has become an emblem of the Tunisian Jasmine Revolution. Filmed on September 30, 2021, this recording is a rare moment of symbiosis between two artists who normally have very different viewpoints, exchanging a few smiles between harmonic progressions. The first interpretation of poetic texts in the history of Variations, this concert updates the repertoire of the Syrian writer and journalist Ghada al-Samman who, inspired by the notions of freedom and self-expression, has made herself known as a lyricist of the civil war that broke out in Lebanon in 1975. Audacious, creative, and disturbing, the set transcribes the surrealist dimension on the border between plausibility and nightmare that characterizes the writings of al-Samman. Similar to a ritual officiated between Arabic and French, the concert alternates powerfully hypnotizing passages and more rhythmic sections. The public is captive, as if bewitched by this “hungry harmony” born from the beats of the producer accustomed to dancefloors and charismatic singers. Between voice loops and electronic dissonances, the lights oscillate in the Théâtre du Châtelet for a futuristic set ending with a well-deserved standing ovation. Laure Marlot
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Date Written / Recorded
2021-09-30
Field of Study
Popular Music
Content Type
Performance
Performer / Ensemble
Vitalic, 1976-, Emel Mathlouthi, 1982-
Contributor
Sourdoreille Production, Théâtre du Châtelet, Radio France
Author / Creator
Nathan Benisty, Vitalic, 1976-, Emel Mathlouthi, 1982-
Date Published / Released
2021
Publisher
Qwest TV
Series
Variations
Topic / Theme
Electronic
Copyright Message
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