World music

#Live Session Ana Carla Maza, Guillaume de Chassy and Elise Caron

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By: Laurence Aloir

5 mins

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1st guest of the #Session Live, #1 Ana Carla Maza to present the album

(Persona Editorial 2022).

Bahia 

is Ana Carla Maza's second studio album.

It opens with 

, a tribute to the Cuban capital, where she was born 26 years ago, to a Chilean father, lush musician, Carlos Maza, and a Cuban mother, guitarist, Mirza Sierra.

"

, said the father.

“

,” replies the girl.

Of course, Havana is the Malecon, this boulevard on the Atlantic coast, which receives the spray from the Everglades.

However, the city coils around a bay, very closed, protected, safe: the Bahia, the rear part of a human, port, cosmopolitan Habana Vieja, crossed by mixtures that have spread from Africa to Brazil. 

Watch the clip

.

Ana Carla Maza at RFI.

© Laurence Aloir/RFI

Then

(Nomadmusic 2022).

Note of intent around The soul of poets, 

"

After the poets are gone

Their songs are still running through the streets

"

Charles Trenet

The art of creating beautiful melodies is a gift unequally distributed among musicians.

and

are among those who, without a doubt, have received this poetic grace.

Beyond styles, times and places, their melodies have the mysterious power to touch our souls and our hearts.

Whether written for the voice or, without words, for any other instrument, these universal songs are my viaticum to go through existence.

I wanted to celebrate them in my own way on the same disc.

To undertake this journey,

(clarinet) and

(double bass) are irreplaceable companions.

Like me, they straddle the boundaries between classical music, jazz and song.

Like me, they revere the Melody – with a capital M. When we play together, the notion of soloist is abolished in favor of a conversation with equal voices where listening, confidence and freedom prevail.

Over the years, our trio has encountered remarkable voices: those of

or

.

Lately,

took us into her world where strangeness, fantasy and melancholy rub shoulders.

For us, she summoned the delicious memories of

and

.

We rehearsed little or not at all, abandoning ourselves to the microphones at the risk of the present moment.

We wished for this fragility, walking hand in hand above the void.

Too much premeditation might have frightened away the dreamy ghosts that circulated among us.

The soul of poets is sometimes difficult to tame...

Guillaume de Chassy

Thomas Savy, Elise Caron, Arnault Cuisinier and Guillaume de Chassy.

© Jerome Prebois

Biography of

At the crossroads of jazz and classical music, pianist and composer Guillaume de Chassy has created a poetic and singular universe.

He is considered a major artist of the French music scene.

Melodist and colorist, his style favors sobriety in a refined sound aesthetic.

Guillaume de Chassy has collaborated with American and European jazz personalities, such as

…

Guillaume de Chassy performs all over the world through his many projects, from solo piano to symphonic form.

Regularly acclaimed by the press, his discography is the reflection of a personality that defies classification and of a constantly awakening creativity.

Curious about all artistic forms, he is also involved in creations combining text, images and music, in particular with actresses

(with whom he recorded the album

),

and

Guillaume de Chassy and Élise Caron at RFI.

© Laurence Aloir/RFI

Biography of Elise Caron

Élise studied drama, singing and flute at the Regional Conservatory of Rouen, then singing at the National Conservatory of Music in Paris.

Soloist and improviser with the National Jazz Orchestra, she also collaborates on numerous creations by big names in contemporary music, jazz and song.

At the theater, she interpreted Shakespeare, Sophocles, Ramuz, Brecht... Under the direction of

(for La Périchole by Offenbach),

(for The Threepenny Opera and Le Brave Soldat Švejk).

More recently, she was directed by David Lescot for La Chose commune – concert-show on the Paris Commune.

In cinema, she played the leading role in Molotov Cocktail under the direction of

and toured with

and

.

She also took part in No Land's Song – a documentary

about the fight against the ban on women singing in front of mixed audiences in Iran.

Author-composer, Élise Caron has been singing her songs for more than twenty years and recording under her name.

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