Free Cinematic Sessions By Sig

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“FREESPEED SONATA” by SIG – OUT the 8th of February 2010
With his new album, Sig delivers a classical hip hop fusion shaped like a four movement sonata.
It all started with short solo piano pieces that Sig performed on his old 1902 Bluthner lent to a poet friend in Berlin.
A few days later, while travelling in Venice, he composed the score looping together short melodies and harmonic flows selected from the pieces. He jumped on an overnight train to meet his friend, drummer Christophe Calpini, at his studio in Nyon. where the latter dropped his incomparable tempo on the entrancing, flawlessly precise loops. Little by little, various figures started to emerge on short sequences.
Just a stone’s throw away from there, his old fellow, saxophonist Christophe Turchi, came up within one afternoon with voluptuous, sometimes jazzy, mysterious and vivid melodies.
Back to Berlin, Sig invited Joy Frempong to join the project. For a couple of days, locked away in her studio, she let her sensual, velvet-smooth voice improvise from a tense flow to a childish lullaby. Like a puppet running freestyle in a megalopolis, her unique voice and whacky lyrics tinge the pieces with an expressionist hip hop touch.
Passing through Paris, Sig ran into his friend, bassist Marcello Giuliani, who spent one morning distilling his delicate, suspended bass lines like an acrobat couturier.

This hip hop sonata of classical leanings is composed of four movements. The first movement, almost twenty minutes long, follows a lone poet’s footsteps through a sleepy town, and is structured around short haunting inventions graced with Nya’s warm and grainy voice on two tracks. A solemn piano intro makes way to feline, high-spirited grooves that follow each other like paintings in an exhibition.
The second movement is more muffled and whispered… a return to childhood. The stroller returns to the loved one under the influence of a hushed, caressing song.
The third movement, following a prelude with an ethereal piano solo, goes back to a merrier rhythm. The poet wanders through the town, blindfolded, and his funky ghosts swirl around him.
In the fourth movement, the town wakes up to a languid tune, and after a drop of coffee, the poet resumes his rambling promenade with cool and catchy hip hop tracks. His trip comes to an end with Angel Dust, a song full of hope that puts the finishing touches to the sonata. release the 8th of february 2010 ! earn it now on this link : http://www.makasound.com/ms_boutique.php?id_famille=3&id_sous_famille=67 __________________________________________________________________ FREE CINEMATIC SESSIONS by Sig

SIG KUS STALK

This surprising trio has now existed for a couple of years, bringing on stage the spirit of experimental improvisation sessions lead by musician/ photographer/ film maker Sig. This experimental free way of playing sprang from sessions organized by Sig between 2001 and 2006 with upstanding artists like the French trumpet player Eric Truffaz, American flutist Chris Hayward, saxophone player Christophe “Stalk” Turchi, and “beat box” performer Marcus “Kus” Ruchman. These sessions are to be released on a triple compact disc in September (Sig Cinematic Sessions – Makasound, Paris).

The instrumentation consists of: Sig ..o, Piano and loops; Kus on “beat box”- Drum imitated by voice, and Stalk on the soprano Saxophone and effects. This low-tech Trio leads their audience to a poetic musical travel through musical styles of abstract hip hop, jazz and classic. These three have a very live, impromptu way of playing, carried by hypnotic loops, often using mixed voices and noises from the world (recorded by Sig during his numerous travels) as organic backgrounds.

Sig sets up the loops, live on stage on the cello, plays a solo on the piano, mixes with recorded tracks right after, comes back again to the cello… he is some kind of a band just by himself ! Stalk plays a lyrical soprano saxophone, mostly minimal, sometimes jazzy and trance, while Kus keeps it together under his fat groove.

Sig Kus Stalk have already been touring a lot in France and Europe. They are always looking to meet with local Artists on an open stage philosophy based upon improvisation, discover and sharing.


Sig aka Siegfried est à la fois cinéaste, musicien et photographe. Polyinstrumentiste respecté, connu pour ses albums Louise (take 2), Vertigo Bound ou la BOF de « A vendre » et de son dernier film « Sansa » nous offre trois disques, trois voyages structurés après des heures d’improvisations.
Maître d’œuvre des sessions, Sig a provoqué les rencontres et composé les musiques qui servent d’écrin aux amis musiciens avec qui ils fusionnent en live où la liberté de chacun est le diapason.

Ce disque est un voyage à travers plusieurs univers musicaux, organisé grâce à ses sessions intimistes avec de musiciens prestigieux :

Hip blue Session plus urbaine voyageant de Tokyo à Paris
Sig (violoncelle, piano, percussions, sounds) Kus (beat box) Stalk (saxophone) feat Joy Frempong (vocal)

Elegia Session plus intimiste jazz avec quelques pérégrinations entre Bangkok et Almaty
Sig (violoncelle, piano, percussions, sounds) Erik Truffaz (trompette)

Cameleon Session plus orientale roots et navigant entre Marrakech et Istambul
Sig (violoncelle, percussions, sounds) Chris Hayward (flutes)

Navigant du trip hop au jazz, passant d’une musique presque « classique » à du abstract hip hop déstructuré ou à une world transe orientale. Nomades et curieuses, ses trois sessions s’enchaînent comme trois films à écouter



Free cinematic sessions by Sig – album disponible Octobre 2008 chez Makasound



CONTACT PROMO / nico(at)makasound.com / lucieland(at)voila.fr

Member Since:

March 06, 2008

Members:

Sig Kus & Joy Frempong live at Cognac
envoyé par babaMarkus. - Clip, interview et concert.
SIG , KUS & CHRIS HAYWARD
envoyé par babaMarkus. - Regardez d'autres vidéos de musique.
SIG , KUS & CHRIS HAYWARD
envoyé par babaMarkus. - Regardez d'autres vidéos de musique.

Sounds Like:

LOUISE (Take 2) by Siegfried a.k.a SIG - 1998 SANSA by Siegfried - 2003 KINOGAMMA PT1 (East) KINOGAMMA PT2 (Far East)

Record Label:

Makasound