Throughout the Festival there will be a number of musical interludes provided by jazz composers and musicians. Because of the way it masters gestures - at the same time a fundamental and liberating act - improvised music is echoed in the work of Josef Nadj who wants to bring attention to this particular musical territory.
“Ever since I was a teenager, I have really been attracted to this music and to the jazz musicians who I met during my regular visits to jazz clubs. They had to feature in this Festival because this improvised music has been such a part of my life. I have always been fascinated by the freedom in this approach and by the incredible capacity for inventiveness and exchange in just one instant. It is a real common language which enables musicians who don't know each other, often from different cultures, to communicate and create right away. They prove, if it is necessary to do so, that free and genuine spaces do exist which respect ‘otherness' in the quality of exchanges, the cross-overs, ultimately the fusion, that come out of these encounters.
Their jazz has other influences, from traditional music from the East to contemporary, without forgetting the origins of jazz, the blues.
Every musician is at the same time, playing an instrument and composing. That's how jazz is so open and has maintained a space that resists, that is far from banal, that preserves and expresses a gesture of pure research, that is always open to open to new possibilities, to creation. “(Josef Nadj, interviewed by Irène Filiberti)
Born in 1966 in Hungary, saxophonist Akosh Szelevényi emmigrated to Paris in 1986. Influenced by ethno-jazz music from Eastern Europe and free jazz, he formed his own group, Akosh S. Unit, and accompanied Noir Désir's disc recordings, toured in Europe and composed the music for Josef Nadj's Eden. Akosh S., who is also one of the musicians in Asobu, has been working closely for some time with the well-known French jazz percussionist Gildas Etevenard. They just released a new album called Nem Kellett Volna.
Distribution
With : Akosh S., Gilles Etevenard
Production
Réalisation : Festival d'Avignon
avec le soutien de la : SACEM
Remerciements à : l'AJMI Avignon