Bégayer
On the occasion of the release of their new album “Évohé Bègue” (March 2024, Murailles Music – Via Parigi – Le Saule), Bégayer are touring Europe, with a stop in Athens.
“Evohé, the song of the bacchants, is multiple and dangerous, its cult is not based on any catechism. Bacchanalian song is about intrusion, it knows neither beginning nor end, and refuses to take the stage that is set for it. Evohé is thus a permanent discipline of aggression of the ritual by the real. A cult of the dangerous object, of time gnawing at flesh, of redemption through intoxication.”
“Évohé bègue” moves towards an open, highly improvised composition, somewhere between the patterns of Morton Feldman, the Nigerian Ogene orchestral bands, the post-punk pleas of New York no-wave, the laughing insolence of northern Italian folk music, the ritual yodelling of the monks of Java, contemporary poetry, improvised music.
French Chanson, Noise, echoes of music from faraway and long ago, modified radio transistors and other old electronic gear.Bégayer is looking for a gesture for those without folklore, for the offspring of this culture of lack, born as much from the twilight of popular habitus as from noisemakers’ howling, from village squares as from the swarming of digital streams, for an unprecedented kind of rapsod-aliens.
Loup Uberto : voice, lutes, begena, bagpipes
Alexis Vinéïs : drums, percussion (sati, qraqeb, gardon)
Lucas Ravinale : voice, begena, tamburelli, sound objects
Jean-Philippe Curtelin : drums, percussion (surdo, sati, qraqeb, gardon)
Loïc Verdillon : 16mm films, sound