V.SESSION#1 - FENNESZ

This Austrian musician was once a lead guitarist with a post rock band. Then he turned to electronic music and acoustic research. Now he uses all his influences during his performances, alternating solo gigs with collective improvising. You can't easily define the genre of music he plays — good for him, good for everyone. Lately, he presented a show with Mike Patton.

I hate the idea of repeating myself, he said in an interview. I need new perspectives and challenges for each project, and I'm very happy that many people are able to follow me without any problem.

And let's guess some new people, through this challenging project, will be introduced to his world made of noise and melody.

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V.SESSION#2 - HERREWEGHE

If you like ancient music, you probably heard of Philippe Herreweghe and Collegium Vocale Gent. He recorded one of the most oustanding collection of Bach's cantatas. Very inspired by polyphonic music, he works on vocal music with great care, able to make a choir sing so that you can hear every voice. His tastes favor pure and mineral voices, without vibrato, and above all musical rhetoric, a deep relation between text and music.
For some years now, he chose fantastic and not very well known vocal masterpieces and interpreted them with his own choir in a smaller and intimate formation (10 singers). As one of his choices, he picked up this dark mass from the Spanish Renaissance.
Be ready for the experience !

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V.SESSION#3 - BL!NDMAN

I don't know if you already heard these four Belgian guys ; they always bring some madness along with a personal talent for music playing. Yes, they are going to play Bach on saxophones and I am ready to hear purists shouting ! Actually, I do hope purists will like their way of playing, because you may listen to the saxophones like antique instruments ; they sound like an organ sometimes, or like an old oboe d'amore...

Performing contemporary music is their other core activity. They used to work on some special projects (an Arthaud project with Phil Minton) and with people like Terry Riley or Steve Lacy. Here they will play works of John Cage (Five), Steve Reich (New York Counterpoint) and Eric Sleichim (Storm at low tide), who is the Bl!ndman's leader. Usually, the way they organise a concert program is exciting. I hope you will get excited as well !

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