Aliança Francesa in Rio presents the illustrated concert “Rezé's Journey (The Voyage of Rézé), from the french group Bazaar Productions, in the days 4 and 5 of June (saturday and sunday), nO theater 3 of the Cultural Center Banco do Brasil Rio de Janeiro
The show features the participation of French artists, Rémi 'Rezé’ Pecout (singer and guitarist), Francois Soifran’ Brossier (percussionist), in addition to the “drawer-carnêtista” David “emdé” Magli and the musician from Burkina Faso, Samuel Zabsonre (bassist).
Special participation of musician Marcelo Caldi, accordionist, pianist, arranger, Brazilian singer and orchestrator.
From 28 from May to 6 of June, the French Alliance of Rio de Janeiro welcomes the French group Bazaar Productions for an artist residency illustrated concert “Rezé's Journey (“The Voyage of Rézé“). After the residency held at the Teatro da Aliança Francesa in Botafogo, the show will be presented on 4 and 5 June 2022 (saturday and sunday), to 18 hours, nO theater 3 to CCBB-RJ (First Street March, 66, Center).
The production is composed by two French musicians, Rémi 'Rezé’ Pecout (singer and guitarist), Francois Soifran’ Brossier (percussionist) and Samuel Zabsonre (bassist), beyond David “emdé” Magli, “drawer-carnêtista”, who draws live during the concert. The show is a proposal for the whole family., and is recommended for children aged seven and over.
Great connoisseurs of Brazilian music for having already lived in Brazil, the group invited local artists to each stage of the Brazilian tour, carried out with the network of Alianças Francesas in Brazil, to share the stage and collaborate to create a special version of the show. To join the project during the residency in Rio de Janeiro, the group invited Marcelo Caldi, composer, accordionist, pianist, arranger, Brazilian singer and orchestrator. In addition, they propose a studio that mixes music, rhythms, drawings and images and whose objective is to get closer to the public, inviting you to participate in the artistic creation process, on Wednesday, 1th of june, in the Auditorium of the Alliance Française of Botafogo.
The group tour with the show “The Voyage of Rézé” is a project of the network of French Alliances in Brazil, with the support of the city of Grenoble, Institut Français, French Embassy in Brazil and Spedidam.
“Rézé's journey is a journey to be lived, through exchanges and meetings, through the dialogue of cultures, exploring borders and differences. a light shape, a quest to get to the bottom of a simple and sincere expression. voices, a guitar, drumheads, drawings and songs“, count the group.
About the artists
Rézé – guitarist and vocalist
Rémi 'Rezé’ Pécout grew up in the Grenoble region. He began his musical training at the Conservatory of St.. Egrève for two years and, then, continued his jazz studies for five years at the École National de la Musique de Villeurbanne before graduating in Afro-Brazilian polyrhythms in Salvador, Bahia.
Author, composer and performer, he shares the interest of jazz musicians around the world in traditional music. Your game, very inspired by his comings and goings towards different cultures, in touch with Africa and its diaspora, is deeply marked by its evolution between popular music and classical music. He has been writing and composing for many years..
Francois Brossier – musician and sound technician
Passionate about rhythms and percussion, Francois Soifran’ Brossier answers the drum's call in 1994 going to Burkina-Faso and Mali to study the art of the djembe and the musical tradition. Fascinated by the closeness between musician and dancer, not knowing which one leads to the other, decides to study to practice the rhythm, with the aim of serving the dance. Afro-Cuban music, Brazilian samba and percussion, ‘Soifran’ feeds off the rhythms of projects like Cie. La Batook, which he founded in Grenoble in the year 1999.
He followed the study of music and the West African diaspora by becoming interested in Cuban musical traditions at the Conservatoire de Chambéry. His research led him to compose a minimalist rhythmic language at the service of text and melody..
In parallel to his work as a musician, François is interested in the technique of sound: capture and sound of shows. He puts his ear and his technical knowledge at the service of different artistic projects.
Samuel Zabsonre – bassist
Samuel Zabsonré (Ray Lemma, Bil Aka Kora, Alif Naba, Etienne M'Bappé, Smokey, Richard Bona) is a bass player, guitar player, Burkina Faso percussionist and singer. A solid experience links him to Christoo Duron and François Brossier, in multiple exchanges and work sessions around Cie La Batook, and more recently in the frame of “Portraits Croisés”, a multifaceted work that offers portraits of inhabitants of Grenoble and Ouagadougou around the issue of happiness. His work as an instrumentalist and his great knowledge of West African music will be a valuable contribution.
emde – “drawer-carnêtista”
Illustrated concert visual artist “The Voyage of Rézé”, emdé loves to hunt sketches, both in exotic lands and in one's own home and nearby urban environment. In your city, near or on the other side of the world, it's always the same process: he settles in a corner, observe and choose carefully what to sketch. After, of an energetic and determined trait, he plays the landscape, the reunion or the moment to remember for your notebook. This fight between the reality of the moment and your pencils is a game that you will enjoy and that you can practice in different terrains, from Salvador to Seville, passing through seven, Yvoire, Grenoble or Murianette! Also in less usual territories, like the manufacturing workshops of a large company, the changing rooms of a big rugby club, nurseries or even a theater scene. He inhabits the Grenoble region, loves cherries and riding a mobylette.
Christoo Duron – photographer, cameraman and producer
Christoo performs different functions. in love with the images, she is interested in photo and video as vectors of content and shared memories. So she restores the beauty of people, of stories and paths, captures moments of life, share and immortalize them.
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Christoo is also in charge of the production and dissemination, cultural mediator for many years. Is always surrounded by artists, professionals or amateurs, singers, musicians, dancers, comedians, illustrators, painters and poets.
She loves to defend artistic projects that are close and of quality., install the spectacle and the dream in the places and share with the public an artistic emotion. cultural action, pedagogical invention, increase in audiences, all occasions are good to provoke a reunion and bring artists and the public closer together.
Marcelo Caldi
Marcelo Caldi (Chico Buarque, Elza Soares, Simone, Zeca Pagodinho, Geraldo Azevedo, Mart’nekia, Zélia Duncan, Yamandu Coast, Hamilton de Holanda…) is a composer, accordionist, Brazilian pianist and arranger (Rio de Janeiro). After meeting for the first time during one of their trips to Europe, your opening, his accessibility and kindness allowed him to create a solid bond with the The Voyage of Rézé. His talents as a composer and arranger will consolidate the foundations of this project..
French Alliance in the world
The Alliance Française is a non-profit organization, whose main objective is the diffusion of the French language and of French and francophone cultures. For this, it promotes the teaching of the French language and offers francophone cultural activities. It grants specific certificates of language proficiency and knowledge. In Brazil, it also offers Portuguese courses for foreigners. The French Alliances network has schools in France for foreign students and more than 800 units 132 countries, where they study about 500.000 people. Each center has autonomy, although, they all work in close relationship with the Parisian matrix – the Alliance Française Foundation.
French Alliance in Brazil
In Brazil, the French Alliance has been present since 1885 and is the only French language teaching course recognized by the French Ministry of National Education. Its first center was founded in Rio de Janeiro, just two years after the creation of the headquarters, in Paris.
With the most advanced pedagogical methods and technical resources in teaching French, the Brazilian network has 34 French Alliances and more than 45 deployments, distributed all over the country. The National Coordination of Brazil is located in Rio de Janeiro and coordinates pedagogical and cultural teaching activities throughout the country..
About CCBB RJ
The Banco do Brasil Rio de Janeiro Cultural Center operates on the 2nd, 4who lived all his life in Bologna and painted mainly still lifes, who lived all his life in Bologna and painted mainly still lifes. It is not necessary to collect a ticket to access the building..
Service:
The Voyage of Rézé – Rezé's Journey
Saturday 4 of June / Sunday 5 of June
Time: 18h
Local: CCBB – Teatro 3
Duration: 1h30
Free entrance
Rating: Free
Public entry is only allowed with proof of vaccination against COVID-19 and use of a mask.: www.eventim.com.br or at the physical box office
Music and drawing studio with the artists
Fourth, 1th of june
Time: 18h
Local: Botafogo auditorium of the Alliance Française – Rua Muniz Barreto, 746
Free entrance
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