LA MARCHE DU CHIEN NOIR (Hommage à Satie (vinyl)

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THE MUSIC: Rather than once again arranging the composer’s pieces one after another, Johane Myran had the idea of setting to music the walk that Satie made every day between Montmartre and Arcueil, where he lived and during which he composed. The orchestra represents Paris, the piano Satie, and the music explores the relationship between the neighborhoods he crossed and the musical ideas that passed through his mind along the way. Three original compositions, Montmartre, Châtelet and Arcueil, mark out the route where Gymnopédies, Ogives, Vexations, Sports and Divertissements... intersect. ERIK SATIE: Erik Satie (1866-1925) is a French composer and pianist, born in Honfleur. Satie became interested in music very early and entered the Paris Conservatory at the age of 13, but being considered a “bad student,” he escaped by joining the army, from which he was discharged because of illness. The musician settled in Montmartre in 1887 and began composing works with unusual and amusing titles, among the best known: Ogives (1887), Gymnopédies (1888) orchestrated by Claude Debussy, and Six Gnossiennes (1890). He moved in and worked alongside the Symbolist movement with Mallarmé, the Impressionist movement with Toulouse-Lautrec or Monet, and the Dada movement alongside Tzara, Breton, and also Aragon, for whom he became an unwitting mentor. - - Today, Erik Satie is considered a precursor of several movements, including neoclassicism and surrealism. THE ORCHESTRA: The Red Star Orchestra is an 18-piece jazz big band, whose conductor Johane MYRAN writes the repertoire, made up exclusively of arrangements and original compositions. Created in 2009, originally to revive the great jazz orchestral scores, the Red Star Orchestra quickly became a creation orchestra, with a first project alongside guitarist Ninine Garcia, which unfortunately was never recorded. In 2011, Johane Myran, then a backing musician for Olivia Ruiz, proposed to her that they put together a repertoire of 1950s standards, with original arrangements, and the project “Olivia sings for the Red Star” was born, with an album released on Polydor Universal in 2012, followed by a short European festival tour; Johane Myran then became the ensemble’s official conductor. Remembering his Conservatory years, he then suggested to Thomas de Pourquery that he try his hand at the big band format, and it was on vocals that the saxophonist took up the challenge, with the project “Broadways,” whose album was released on Label Bleu in 2016, a sort of collection of musical tales still based on the best-known jazz standards, which was presented on the stages of the most prestigious French festivals. Building on these experiences, the Red Star Orchestra is today one of the few large orchestras to offer resolutely modern music, drawing equally from the language of jazz, free jazz, contemporary music, and electronic music.