{"id":5118,"date":"2016-10-20T11:00:52","date_gmt":"2016-10-20T10:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.onj.org\/?page_id=5118"},"modified":"2017-09-07T17:21:17","modified_gmt":"2017-09-07T16:21:17","slug":"europa-oslo","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.onj.org\/en\/europa-oslo\/","title":{"rendered":"EUROPA OSLO<\/EM>"},"content":{"rendered":"

JANUARY 2017\u00a0PREMIERED\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n

OLIVIER BENOIT\u00a0<\/strong>composition, guitar
\nHANS PETTER BLAD <\/strong>texts
\nMARIA LAURA BACCARINI<\/strong> voicals
\nJEAN DOUSTEYSSIER<\/strong> clarinets
\nALEXANDRA GRIMAL<\/strong> tenor saxophone
\nHUGUES MAYOT<\/strong> alto saxophone
\nFABRICE MARTINEZ<\/strong> trumpet, flugelhorn
\nFIDEL FOURNEYRON<\/strong> trombone
\nTH\u00c9O CECCALDI<\/strong> violin
\nSOPHIE AGNEL<\/strong> piano
\nPAUL BROUSSEAU<\/strong>\u00a0Fender Rhodes, bass synthesizer
\nSYLVAIN DANIEL<\/strong>\u00a0electric bass
\n\u00c9RIC ECHAMPARD<\/strong>\u00a0drums, electronics<\/p>\n

Olivier Benoit brings his EUROPA project to a close by setting a northerly course with his musicians that takes them to the capital of Norway. Oslo is an atypical city. Nestling in the heart of triumphant natural surroundings, it has constantly pursued its architectural and cultural transformation, somewhere in between ancient tradition and the incredibly modern. At the close of the last century, this city was already setting the tone for new artistic concepts. To accompany the capital of Norway in music and establish a subjective portrait of the city, first an immersion was necessary. Living to the rhythm of Oslo’s seasons constituted a vital source of inspiration that provided the composition with its starting point.<\/span><\/p>\n

Exploring this fourth European capital gave Olivier Benoit the desire to associate words and speech with the project, hence the two-voice evocation that he imagined with the complicity of contemporary Oslo writer and poet Hans Petter Blad. This singular author, a writer who chisels into the chiaroscuro of souls, selected excerpts from his writings forming a series of realist poems in which the music composed by the ONJ’s artistic director finds its echo. To incarnate Hans Petter’s texts \u2014 which the author himself has translated from Norwegian into English \u2014 Olivier Benoit chose Maria Laura Baccarini, a multifaceted artist who is a singer and actress.<\/span><\/p>\n

As an orchestral suite whose movements offer a very broad dynamic range \u2014 alternating moments of intimism and melancholy (the image of a hearing of confession), hypnotic atmospheres and powerful crescendos \u2014 EUROPA OSLO plunges us with rare intensity into the very heart of the city and the flesh of its inhabitants, moving between wounds, wanderings and renaissances. The panoramic universe of Olivier Benoit continues to draw from multiple sources \u2014 jazz, repetitive music and progressive rock \u2014 and they provide a made-to-measure setting for the elegiac pen of Hans Petter Blad. The outcome is a sensitive tribute to Oslo nourished by the expressive strengths of each of the orchestra’s musicians in the company of Maria Laura Baccarini, here an inhabited performer. An ultimate opus, magnetic and thrilling.<\/span><\/p>\n

NEW ALBUM
\nRELEASED <\/strong>APRIL 28, 2017<\/strong>
\nONJ Records – L’Autre Distribution<\/p>\n

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With the support of MFA and FCM
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CONCERTS<\/h1>\n

19 SEPTEMBER 2017
\n<\/span><\/strong>UNA STRISCIA DI TERRA FECONDA FESTIVAL\u00a0\u00a0\/ ROME – IT<\/strong><\/p>\n

30\u00a0SEPTEMBER\u00a02017<\/span>
\nTROPIQUES ATRIUM \/ FORT-DE-FRANCE – FR
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\n13 OCTOBER 2017<\/strong><\/span>
\nATLANTIQUE JAZZ FESTIVAL \/ BREST\u00a0– FR<\/strong><\/p>\n

1\u00a0DECEMBER\u00a02017<\/span><\/strong>
\nTH\u00c9\u00c2TRE DE CORNOUAILLE \/ QUIMPER\u00a0– FR<\/strong><\/p>\n

7 DECEMBER 2017\u00a0<\/span><\/strong>
\nMAISON DE LA CULTURE \/\u00a0BOURGES\u00a0– FR<\/strong><\/p>\n

15 FEBRUARY 2018<\/strong><\/span>
\nARSENAL \/ METZ – FR<\/strong><\/p>\n

4 APRIL 2018<\/strong><\/span>
\nFILATURE \/ MULHOUSE – FR<\/strong><\/p>\n

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