Last year, Petit Faucheux organized the tour for the Rempis Percussion Quartet, a group led by Chicago saxophonist Dave Rempis, in collaboration with 4 other French jazz clubs. Drawing from that experience, the venue in Tours has partnered with additional presenters in France and Switzerland to arrange a "green" tour for a brand-new trio consisting of Japanese turntablist Ōtomo Yoshihide, Belgian drummer Tom Malmendier, and french turntablist Emilie Škrijelj.
This collaborative initiative aims to achieve several objectives:
• Foster encounters between the French audience and rare foreign musicians in France.
• Pool transportation costs.
• Reconsider tour logistics in an eco-friendly approach.
• Offer mediation activities around the concerts.
• Collaborate with jazz and improvised music diffusion structures in France and Europe.
The tour will kick off at Petit Faucheux in Tours and continue to Pannonica (Nantes), Ici l'Onde (Dijon), Périscope (Lyon), Cave 12 (Geneva), GMEM (Marseille), Un Pavé dans l’Jazz (Toulouse), and Jazz à Poitiers, in partnership with AJC (Association Jazzé Croisé).
AJC, a network for jazz diffusion in France and Europe, has long worked towards facilitating artist circulation, nurturing emerging talents, and creating unique projects. AJC supports the jazz and improvised music world in understanding the various challenges related to ecological transition and develops shared tools and methodologies to reduce its carbon footprint.
Trio Ōtomo Yoshihide / Emilie Škrijelj / Tom Malmendier
Ōtomo Yoshihide is to turntablism what Platini is to Juventus in Turin—a perfectly striped zebra that scores straight into the top corner. A great adventurer of the Japanese scene and founder of the legendary Ground Zero, Yoshihide is a key figure in the global noise scene, comfortable in electronic litany, pop, or sharp-edged improvisation, all piled up with a resounding crash. Emilie Škrijelj is also a turntablist, with a penchant for volleys. Tom Malmendier is a drummer, his energy meant to be spent. Their music is full of veins and textures. This trio presents itself as a DJ set for contemporary turntables where hyper-inventive noise is created, handmade with impressive dexterity. Too bad for the future; this music is played in the present. In white noise as in its perspectives. Concrete, evocative, radical, and fiercely imaginative abstractions. Guillaume Malvoisin (PointBreak)
France / Japan / Belgium
Ōtomo Yoshihide : Turntables, guitar
Tom Malmendier : Drums, objects
Emilie Škrijelj : Turntables, electronics
On tour in France and Switzerland:
21/03 : Petit faucheux - Tours
22/03 : Pannonica – Nantes
23/03 : Jazz à Poitiers
24/03 : Cave 12 – Genève
25/03 : GMEM – Marseille
26/03 : Périscope – Lyon
27/03 : Ici l’Onde – Dijon
28/03 : Un Pavé dans le Jazz – Toulouse
This collaborative initiative aims to achieve several objectives:
• Foster encounters between the French audience and rare foreign musicians in France.
• Pool transportation costs.
• Reconsider tour logistics in an eco-friendly approach.
• Offer mediation activities around the concerts.
• Collaborate with jazz and improvised music diffusion structures in France and Europe.
The tour will kick off at Petit Faucheux in Tours and continue to Pannonica (Nantes), Ici l'Onde (Dijon), Périscope (Lyon), Cave 12 (Geneva), GMEM (Marseille), Un Pavé dans l’Jazz (Toulouse), and Jazz à Poitiers, in partnership with AJC (Association Jazzé Croisé).
AJC, a network for jazz diffusion in France and Europe, has long worked towards facilitating artist circulation, nurturing emerging talents, and creating unique projects. AJC supports the jazz and improvised music world in understanding the various challenges related to ecological transition and develops shared tools and methodologies to reduce its carbon footprint.
Trio Ōtomo Yoshihide / Emilie Škrijelj / Tom Malmendier
Ōtomo Yoshihide is to turntablism what Platini is to Juventus in Turin—a perfectly striped zebra that scores straight into the top corner. A great adventurer of the Japanese scene and founder of the legendary Ground Zero, Yoshihide is a key figure in the global noise scene, comfortable in electronic litany, pop, or sharp-edged improvisation, all piled up with a resounding crash. Emilie Škrijelj is also a turntablist, with a penchant for volleys. Tom Malmendier is a drummer, his energy meant to be spent. Their music is full of veins and textures. This trio presents itself as a DJ set for contemporary turntables where hyper-inventive noise is created, handmade with impressive dexterity. Too bad for the future; this music is played in the present. In white noise as in its perspectives. Concrete, evocative, radical, and fiercely imaginative abstractions. Guillaume Malvoisin (PointBreak)
France / Japan / Belgium
Ōtomo Yoshihide : Turntables, guitar
Tom Malmendier : Drums, objects
Emilie Škrijelj : Turntables, electronics
On tour in France and Switzerland:
21/03 : Petit faucheux - Tours
22/03 : Pannonica – Nantes
23/03 : Jazz à Poitiers
24/03 : Cave 12 – Genève
25/03 : GMEM – Marseille
26/03 : Périscope – Lyon
27/03 : Ici l’Onde – Dijon
28/03 : Un Pavé dans le Jazz – Toulouse
