World music
Live session x 2 with Tunisians Ÿuma & French harpist Isabelle Olivier
© Yellow Bird Road / French Flair
By: Laurence Aloir
7 mins
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Our first guests are the Tunisian duo Ÿuma, for the release of the album
Hannet Lekloub
(French Flair)
#SessionLive
Hannet Lekloub
is the third album by Tunisian duo
Ÿuma
, composed of
Sabrine Jenhani
(vocals) and
Ramy Zoghlami
(vocals, guitar).
After
Chura
in 2016, a self-produced album, and
Poussières d'étoiles
in 2018, Hannet Lekloub offers eleven titles chiseled in terms of the originality of the forms.
And if it is necessary to put a label, it would be, says Ramy "that of the indie folk".
Sung in Tunisian Arabic,
Hannet Lekloub
is part of the fertile hybridization of the contemporary world.
Directed by the Dutch
Jo Francken
and
Pieterjean Maertens
(Tamino, Milow) Hannet Lekloub was born at the Audioworkx studio, in Hoogeloon, in the south of the Netherlands.
That this generically Tunisian album was born in one of the epicenters of dance music is no coincidence.
Because if this album develops a folk sung à la Peter, Paul and Mary, and adorned with the Orient, it is underpinned by sounds and rhythms specific to northern European electronics.
Ÿuma.
© Burak Kac
Passion, patience, maturity: "
This album is one of reconciliation, of reunion"
, explains Sabrine.
After the release of
Poussières d'étoiles
, and an international tour, the duo "
took a break, took some distance
.
Our artistic journeys were dissociated for a time, and then the nostalgia of separation fell on us. is what the song Denia Dour evokes, which describes doubt, disarray"
.
With a musical lightness all in grace, the acoustic guitar in front line and chiseled words: "
And then if I reconnected with loneliness/Since you left, the days are dark and the nights are sleepless/And then if my silence speaks volumes/And people have spoken for me/And time has aggravated the things/And I ended up unpacking everything/But as the saying goes/The wheel turns
".
- Denia Dour
Live RFI
see the clip
- Wahan Kbar
, from the album
Hannet Lekloub
see the clip
- Sucre
Live RFI
see the clip.
Ÿuma.
© Laurence Aloir/RFI
Musicians
- Sabrine Jenhani, vocals
- Ramy Zoghlami
, guitar vocals
Sound: Benoît Letirant, Fabien Mugneret.
Directed by: Jérémie Besset.
Then we receive the harpist Isabelle Olivier in the #SessionLive for the release of her 11th album
Smile
(Yellow Bird Rd
).
Isabelle Oliver.
© Piero Ottaviano
To celebrate her 30 years on stage, harpist
Isabelle Olivier
releases her eleventh album
SMILE
in tribute to Charlie Chaplin.
The title
Smile
is the starting point of this luminous project.
Isabelle Olivier explores new textures with her harp mixing acoustics and electronics to create an elegant, bewitching and radiant universe.
Ten original compositions rub shoulders with covers of Charlie Chaplin, James Blake and Cannonball Adderley.
15 years after her first solo album
Island #41
nominated for the Victoires du Jazz,
Isabelle Olivier
find the solo harp.
Navigating between Chicago and Paris since 2012, Isabelle Olivier conceived this new project at the PianoForte Foundation in Chicago during a creative residency in 2020. She composed music with multiple jazz, pop, electro, hip-hop, Cuban influences. , Celtic… If most of the titles are solo, she has surrounded herself, on a few tracks, with guests who come to bring their touch and their sensitivity:
Kristiana Roemer
, German-American singer, who magnified
Hope
on a text by Emily Dickinson and
Freedom
,
Tom Olivier-Beuf
for his remarkable touch on the accordion on
Light
then his piano solo with a Cuban tribute
Cuban Smile
,
Raphaël Olivier
for his beautiful guitar presence on
Aroma
and
Cuban Smile
and his electro production on
Harmony, Smile electro and You're too precious
by James Blake, and finally drummer
Ernie Adams
with his remarkable groove on
One for Daddy Oh
and
Cuban Smile
.
Founding anecdote of this project: in 1991, Jean-Louis Chautemps, jazz saxophonist, met Isabelle Olivier for the first time during a concert of his group "Océan" and told her with a smile "
a jazz musician, these are the 30 first years which are difficult. Afterwards you will see that it will be much better"
.
Isabelle Oliver.
© Piero Ottaviano
Isabelle Olivier, biography
Jazzwoman and harpist with a strong musical personality, Isabelle Olivier brings a wave of freshness and novelty to the international scene by revealing a surprising and original instrument.
She develops a very recognizable style from the first notes of her fascinating and rare instrument.
She has composed, arranged and recorded 10 discs and a DVD.
Composer evolving at the borders of jazz, Celtic and contemporary music, she is in demand in the world of cinema and live performance.
She has traveled to 25 countries to present her musical creations.
For 9 years, she has been developing a Franco-American project.
She thus produced a jazz opera,
Don't worry, be haRpy,
a free adaptation of the
Baron perché
of Italo Calvino with American singers and French musicians.
She is now pursuing a project on both sides of the Atlantic with musicians, dancers, visual artists, poets and actors.
She was commissioned in 2017 by the Art Institute of Chicago, to compose a one-hour performance in connection with the exhibition Gauguin, the alchemist which was presented there in July 2017. Winner of the Prix de la Villa Le Nôtre at Versailles in 2015, she is the first composer in residence at the Potager du Roi.
She is currently an ambassador for the new Salvi “Rainbow” electro-acoustic harp worldwide.
She had the chance to collaborate with exceptional personalities such as Peter Erskine, Didier Lockwood, Ernie Adams, Mitch Haupers, Paul Wertico, as much in the musical field as in other disciplines.
They allowed him to trace a magnificent artistic path from music and to realize the potential of orchestral alchemy and interdisciplinary encounters.
Since 2018, she has been an associate composer at the Théâtre de Guyancourt, in a residency supported by the Ministry of Culture and SACEM.
She created 7 live shows over two seasons and continues her work of creation, distribution and cultural actions.
Isabelle Olivier released her tenth album in 2019: a project co-directed with guitarist Rez Abbasi, supported by the FACE foundation, ADAMI and SPEDIDAM.
In 2020, she won the call for projects "Les Habitants ont du talent", in partnership with the Federation of Social Centers of Essonne.
This inclusive and unifying artistic project revolves around the theme of "Smile".
Isabelle Olivier, David Paycha and Tom Olivier-Beuf at RFI.
© Laurence Aloir/RFI
Performed titles
- One for Daddy Oh
Live RFI (Nat Adderley) trio harp, piano, drums
- Hope
(text Emily Dickinson) from the album
Smile
- Light
Live RFI harp and accordion
-Cuban
Smile
Live RFI trio harp, piano, drums
see the clip.
Musicians
- Isabelle Olivier
, harp
- David
Paycha
, drums
- Tom Olivier-
Beuf
, piano and accordion.
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