Gelsomina

| French Songs by Alexis Morel

After the release of the album "Cent Soleils", Gelsomina - also known as Marie Salvat - returns accompanied by pianist Pablo Murgier to sing the wonderful lyrics of Alexis Morel.

There is a rare poetic fragrance in Alexis Morel's songs. A gentle madness, a cynicism, and a sometimes bewildering liveliness as they seem to adhere to the author's language. His symbolist writing is also very pictorial, the kind where the musicality of words is already melody and landscape. The encounter of his pen with Marie Salvat's universe has led to a deep reflection on the appropriation of this literary and musical score by the performer who carries it. A reinterpretation has been initiated through residencies with long stretches of musical improvisations driven by the jazz culture of the musicians. In addition to the relationship with this powerful and dreamlike poetry, Marie Salvat's very duende interpretation adds, with her particular gestural language, erected around a microphone stand, a central support and a neuralgic point that resists the currents of such a slender body. Mad or unsympathetic characters, intimate stanzas with Ravel-like colors, surrealist poems, and initiatory tales for adults make it a gateway to an imaginary world with a hundred stars, a daydream with wide-open eyes.

Velours, velours — A kind of cabaret
Every Saturday afternoon, 38Riv turns into a piano bar in Havana, a cozy club in Harlem, or a forgotten Broadway stage. It's not just a concert: it's a lively and theatrical dive into the golden age of jazz and musical comedy. Imagine a vibrant tribute to the voices of Billie Holiday, Judy Garland, Ella Fitzgerald, and Louis Armstrong. A timeless parenthesis, between the pages of a Fitzgerald novel and the backstage of a New York cabaret, where singing, storytelling, playing, and laughing take place. "Velours, velours" is the elegance of a bygone era, the warmth of a shared moment, and the emotion of a story told through music.