"Shadowlands" + "Vive La France"

SHADOWLANDS - PREMIERE: Inspired by a mix of ancient music, folk and plainsong, as well as Jackie Berridge's painting, Shadowlands offers both, chamber and contemporary music. The meeting of these three dynamic musicians of the European creative music scene, adept at crossing roads between styles, come together to leap into the unknown.
The compositions of Kit Downes, mixed with those of the  saxophonist and clarinettist Robin Fincker and the Irish singer Lauren Kinsella in a common desire to question slowness and  right gesture. The stretched and singing melodies are thus surrounded by a halo of shimmering and moving sound material. Slowly, the shadows stretch and blend...

VIVE LA FRANCE - Since their first album, the group Das Kapital has never stopped declining its fundamentally "impure" art in all its forms, working to blur the boundaries between popular traditions and avant-garde. This time paying tribute to French music in all its forms (from Satie to Lully via Claude François, Trenet, Barbara and much more.
Das Kapital once again embraces the entire spectrum of modern jazz and contemporary music to both magnify the extraordinary melodic force of these timeless tunes and to de facto annihilate all the artificial differences between "great music" and "popular song". A great bath of libertarian youth!

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