World music
#Session Live Emmanuelle Parrenin x Lehna, folk is folk!
© Johnkôôl Rd / Incredible
By: Laurence Aloir
4 mins
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The 1st artist is
Emmanuelle Parrenin
for the release of her 3rd album
Targala, La Maison Qui n'En Est Pas Une
(Johnkôôl Records).
Emmanuelle Parrenin
has always been a collector of sounds: she learns music in a clandestine and instinctive way by reproducing on a piano the melodies she hears escaping from the family home, where music resounds from everywhere: her father directs the
Quartet Parrenin
, and his mother is a harp teacher.
In 1978, she released
Maison rose
, synthesis of ten years of folk journey and exploration of traditional sounds.
In 1990, following a serious accident, she became deaf.
She heals by re-educating her ears through the sounds of her voice and the resonance of her instruments.
Throughout her travels, she collects all kinds of healing instruments and is interested in medicine songs and all the traditional techniques that exploit the therapeutic dimension of sound.
In 2011, thirty years after
Maison rose
, she recorded
Maison cube
which continues the folk adventure as she has always conceived it: mixed with psychedelia, jazz and shamanism.
The years 2011-2012 mark her encounter with electronic music: Emmanuelle then multiplies collaborations with artists such as
Étienne
Jaumet, Eat Gas, Vincent Segal, Pierre Bastien, Detlev Weinreich
aka
Tolouse Low Trax
...
Emmanuelle Parrenin.
© Frédéric d'Oberland
His path crosses that of
Colin Johnco,
in 2017, during a concert where he was invited, off the cuff, to put effects on the instrumental variations of Emmanuelle.
From there, the desire to create together takes shape and from encounters to improvisations, they gradually draw the outlines of a common project.
Emmanuelle on composition, instruments and voice, Colin on effects and production.
The final chapter of the Houses trilogy is called Targala, the house that isn't.
Inspired in part by her trip to the gates of the desert, where Emmanuelle found herself stranded at the start of confinement.
She will end up by becoming friends with the landscape, the stones and the sand, in constant change.
A daring and timeless record, which takes us into psychedelic meanders, to return to fragile and acoustic moments.
Between an abyssal sensory plunge and a nursery rhyme whispered in the hollow of the ear.
We find there
Étienne Jaumet
and
Cosmic Neman
from
Zombie Zombie, Eat G, Paulie Jan, Peter Combard, Léo Margue, Quentin Rollet, Gaspar Claus
and
Philippe Foch.
FYI, the director
Marie-Elise Beyne
made a documentary about her "
From one house to another
" which was screened at the FAME festival in Paris, at the Gaîté Lyrique.
Lehna.
© Marcela Barrios
The other guest is called
Lehna
.
She presents her album
Ligne O
(Inouïe Distribution).
A voice, songs that evoke
Lhasa, Bird On A Wire
, or Joan Baez, in an album sung in English, French and Spanish.
Lehna
travels.
On her first opus, Valparaiso Bay, the singer-songwriter accompanied herself on guitar, violin and charango.
This time, she surrounded herself with a swarm of talented musicians for a collective album.
Strings, brass instruments, voices and percussion lead us to line O, this emblematic bus line of the port city of Valparaiso in Chile, which is gradually becoming a skyline.
In her writing as in her interpretation, Lehna discards all artifice to focus on emotion, breath, the hand clenched very hard.
Whether she sings in English, Spanish, French or Romanian, she speaks to us in an intimate, modest and vibrant way at the same time.
It is about a loved one, loneliness, memory, wandering… So many concerns linked to absolute sincerity.
The contrast between stripped folk writing and the richness of the arrangements creates a marvelous break in the passing time.
Lehna travels and takes us on the most beautiful of bus lines: a line where passengers converse intensely and together contemplate the beauty of the world.
Lehna, Emmanuelle Parrenin and Eat Gas at RFI.
© Laurence Aloir/RFI
Performed titles
- La Rêvelinière
, Live RFI Emmanuelle Parrenin
- Cosecha
, Live RFI Lehna
see the clip
- Pulse
, from the album
Targala, la maison n'est pas une
by Emmanuelle Parredin
- The Tide
, Live RFI from Lehna
- Between Me
, Live RFI by Emmanuelle Parrenin
- Si Va Le Monde
, from the album
Ligne O
by Lehna.
musicians
- Emmanuelle Parrenin, vocals, spruce
– Eat Gas
, guitar, keyboards
- Lehna
, voice, guitar, charango.
Sound: Fabien Mugneret
&
Mathias Taylor.
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