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Bobun: Suite pour Machines a meche

Loriot / Vincent: Bobun: Suite pour Machines a meche (Creative Sources)

The string duo Bobun celebrates ten years of creative collaboration with this six piece suite, a studio recording of diverse improvisations that runs the gamut from lowercase minimalism to dense and technically exuberant interaction.
 

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UPC: 5609063402155

Label: Creative Sources
Catalog ID: cs215
Squidco Product Code: 16515

Format: CD
Condition: New
Released: 2012
Country: Portugal
Packaging: Jewel Tray
Recorded by Terence Briand at Studio Nyima in November and December 2011.

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The string duo Bobun celebrates ten years of creative collaboration with this six piece suite, a studio recording of diverse improvisations that runs the gamut from lowercase minimalism to dense and technically exuberant interaction.

"10 years ago, in 2002, the duo "Bobun" was created in Orléans (France) at the "Nautre Festival" (festival to support the venue MJC-Moulin de la Vapeur).

Since then, the duo played in different countries (USA, Japan, Europe), venues and festivals (Festival Elixir, Festival Loches en Jazz, le Petit Faucheux, Radio France, Radio Campus Orléans, WMP Concert Hall in New York, Urban Guild in Kyoto, 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art in Kanazawa etc ...).

Bobun's music is completely improvised.

The duo appreciates meetings and collaborated with Kita Naoki (vln), Hachiya Maki (voice), Isohata Shin'Ichi (guitar), Naka Takuji (sax/electronics), Ryotaro (accordeon), Akito Sengoku (projectors), Ono Ryoko (saxophones), Usui Yasushiro (guitar), Kijima Rina (vln), Muto Hiroyuki (electronics), Shimada Hideaki (vln), Ota Masahiko (guitar), Shintaro Takasugi (contrabass), Maresuke Okamoto (double bass), Kawai Takuji (piano), Sean Ali (double bass), Pascal Niggenkemper (contrabass), Yukari Watanabe (flute), Jonathan Moritz (saxophones), Ianik Tallet (drums), Nasuo Mitsuru (electric bass), Polo (laptop), Pascal Maupeu (guitar), Jean-Luc Cappozzo (trumpet), Loran Brunet (saxophones & flutes), Cyprien Busolini (viola), Claude Tchamitchian (double bass) or Collectif Insit-U in Paris...

In october 2005, contrabassist Joëlle Léandre invited both of them to be part of her improvised string ensemble and to preform at Radio France with Theresa Wong (cello/USA), Deborah Walker (cello/IT) and Quentin Sirjaqc (piano/F).

Bobun contributed to projects with mime, contemporary dance (Cie Un Instant, the japanese dancer Saïko Kino, they collaborated and recorded for the cotemporary dance show "Mes mains se souviennent" by Claire De Monclin, Gabriel Debray & Thierry Dufourmantelle) and storytellers.

Hugues and Frantz have played together in other bands such as Bolitz (acousmatic/electronic music, with Polo & Vincent Laubeuf) & the ska-rock band le Pélican Frisé...

Today, they also have a trio called Ganjin with japanese drummer Yuko Oshima.

Hugues Vincent

classical cello studies with Denise Cherret and jazz at Edim & Conservatoire de Montreuil (France)... holder of master degree in musicology... master classes with Sofia Domancich, Didier Levallet, Régis Huby, Vincent Courtois, Ernst Reisjeger, Barre Phillips, Joëlle Léandre.

Over the years Hugues Vincent collaborates with: Tilbol; Celluloïd (w/ Franck Smith);

Joëlle Léandre "String project"; Otomo Yoshihide "New jazz ensemble"; David S. Ware's "ensemble à cordes"; Bobun (w/ violist Frantz Loriot); the Ska band "Le pélican frisé"; the acousmatic trio Bolitz...

He writes music for Four Roses For Lucienne (based on texts by Roland Topor)...

Improvisations with: Vincent Courtois, Claude Tchamitchian, Jean François Pauvros, Luc Ex, Makoto Sato, Jean-Luc Cappozzo, Itaru Oki... also works in choreographic fields (Un Instant, Bernardo Montet, Chia Yin Ling)...

He currently works as a solo artist and acts on stage in contemporary dance contexts and toures in different countries (Germany, Switzerland, Belgium, Holland, Italia, Spain, United-States, Morocco, Japan...).

Frantz Loriot

French-japanese violist Frantz Loriot performs solo as well as in various ensembles by way of improvisation and electronics. He also makes regularly sessions of sound massage.

He contributed to multidisciplinary projects connected to poetry, cinema/video and dance with different companies in Paris. He created and curated Ze Couch Series in Brooklyn, NY.

Frantz Loriot began music studies in Paris on the violin with several professors (among them Mari Yasuda-Raclot, the Pons brothers, Nicolas Dupin, Ivry Gitlis, Yukari Tate & Pascal Robault).

He was brought to improvisation by Régis Huby, Joëlle Léandre, Barre Phillips and David S. Ware and was initiated to the sound massage by trombonist and sound massage creator Thierry Madiot.

After living in Paris and New York City, Frantz recently relocated in Zürich (Switzerland).


Get additional information at Bobun page at Frantz Loriot's website

Artist Biographies

"French-Japanese violist Frantz Loriot performs solo as well as in various ensembles by way of improvisation and electronics, crossroads of different musical genres: improvised music, experimental, rock, contemporary music and electronics. He has contributed to multidisciplinary projects related to dance, image and poetry.

Frantz Loriot leads two large ensembles, the European Notebook Large Ensemble, a 10 piece ensemble with Swiss, Japanese, Belgian and Italian musicians with which he released "Urban Furrow" on the Portuguese label Clean Feed (July 2015) and the NYC based 12 piece Systematic Distortion Orchestra in which Frantz reunites some of the finest NYC based improvisers and with which he released "The Assembly" on the NYC based label NowOut recordings.

Beside these projects, Frantz released his debut solo recording "Reflections on an Introspective Path" on the NYC based label Neither/Nor.

For the year 2016, Frantz got invited by the prestigious Météo - Mulhouse Music festival to be artist in residence for a new creation called Der dritte Treffpunkt. For this occasion, Frantz led and reunited a new French-Swiss quartet, Der Verboten, with pianist Cédric Piromalli, saxophonist Antoine Chessex and percussionist Christian Wolfarth.

Active in a number of international collective ensembles, his other personal projects include:

baloni - with Joachim Badenhorst (reeds) & Pascal Niggenkemper (contrabass), Natura Morta - with Sean Ali (contrabass) & Carlo Costa, duos with Jeremiah Cymerman (clarinet), Christoph Erb (saxophones) & Christian Wolfarth (percussions), the project Treffpunkt around international meetings with French pianist Cédric Piromalli.

He appears as a sideman in Joachim Badenhorst's Carate Urio Orchestra, Tobias Meier's Im Wald and Silvan Jeger

This Difficult Tree.

In addition to his own projects he has also worked alongside many musicians such as (a.o.), Barre Phillips, Joëlle Léandre, David S.Ware, Anthony Braxton & Walter Thompson Orchestra, Tony Conrad, Emilie Lesbros, Duane Pitre's ED09 ensemble, Ève Risser, Sabir Mateen, Michael Formanek, Andrea Parkins, Franck Vigroux, Jean-Luc Cappozzo, Alexei Borisov, Theresa Wong, Ernesto Rodrigues, Hilmar Jensson, Kita Naoki, Simon Nabatov, Steve Swell, Yagi Michiyo, Yasumune Morishige, Mikko Innanen, Christian Weber and many others.

Frantz Loriot performs regularly in Europe, USA and Japan.

Frantz Loriot appears on CDs released on international labels such as Clean Feed, Creative Sources, Intakt, Peira, FMR, Sickcore, Impressus, Prom Night Records, Basses Fréquences, Quiet Design, Edible Onion, Komma Null, Klein, Neither/Nor, OutNow, Wide Ear etc.

Frantz Loriot studied music in Paris with several professors (Mari Yasuda-Raclot, the Pons brothers, Nicolas Dupin, Ivry Gitlis, Yukari Tate & Pascal Robault) and was brought to improvisation by Régis Huby, Joëlle Léandre, Barre Phillips, and David S. Ware.

He was initiated to soundmassage by its creator, Thierry Madiot.

While living in NYC, he created and curated Ze Couch Series in Brooklyn, NY, from 2009 to 2012. After having lived in Paris and New York City, Frantz Loriot relocated in Zürich (Switzerland)."

-Frantz Loriot Website (http://www.frantzloriot.com/Bio_files/Complete%20bio%20ENG.1.pdf)
3/13/2024

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"Alongside classical studies in cello with Denise Cherret, Hugues Vincent is trained on Jazz at EDIM and the Montreuil Conservatory, earning a Bachelor in Musicology and a teaching diploma (CAPES) of the Paris 8-Vincennes University. He attends improvisation masterclasses under Sophia Domancich, Didier Levallet, Régis Huby, Vincent Courtois, Ernst Resijeger, Barre Philips, Joëlle Léandre...

Over the years he has collaborated with: Tilbol, Celluloïd (with Franck Smith), Joelle Léandre's "String Project", Otomo Yoshihide's "New Jazz Ensemble", David S. Ware's "Ensemble à cordes", Bobun (with viola player Frantz Loriot), the Ska band "Le Pélican Frisé", the acousmatic trio Bolitz (with Polo and Vincent Laubeuf)... He writes music for Four Roses For Lucienne (based on texts by Roland Topor), the free rock trio Ganjin...

He has appeared with numerous improvisers: Vincent Courtois, Claude Tchamitchian, Jean-François Pauvros, Luc Ex, Jean-Luc Cappozzo, Itaru Oki... and also worked in choreographic fields (with Chia Yin Ling, Imre Thormann, Ima Tenko...).

He tours regularly in many countries (Germany, Switzerland, Belgium, Holland, Italia, Spain, United-States, Morocco, Egypt, Algeria, Russia, Japan, Taïwan)...

He is featured on over 20 records, his most recent albums being "Free Trees" on Leo Records (with Vladimir Kudryavtsev and Maria Logofet) and the critically-acclaimed "Fragment" on Improvising Beings (with Morishige Yasumune)."

-Duo Iwase/Vicente Website (http://iwase-vincent.wixsite.com/iwase-vincent/-propos1-c17oa)
3/13/2024

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Track Listing:



1. Immersion 9:21

2. La Machine 8:14

3. Un certain agacement se faisait sentir parfois 4:58

4. Shizuka na yume 12:39

5. Nitescence 1:35

6. Emersion 8:31

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