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Pulcinella

Pulcinella is claiming for an extravagant music, generous and dynamic. Throught a very special sense of story-telling rising from the compositions and arrangements, this quartet offers an access to an inventive and original musical world. Hard to classify, the musical world of the band is full of colours and unpredictable characters (Achab, Titus Pulo, La Belle-Isloise…). Pulcinella plays an omnivore kind of jazz, fond of rock, tango, musette and eastern Europe music… all in order to serve musical stories and sparkling colours pictures.

For more than 8 years the band Pulcinella multiplies concerts, tours, encounters, thanks to the trust given by several professional networks and shows organizers (festivals, cultural centers, national scenes, clubs, , public places, bars …).

With more than 350 concerts, the band had the chance to open the show for Get The Blessing, Akosh S., Julien Lourau, Magyd Cherfi, Renaud Garcia Fons, Bojan Z, André Minvielle, Bireli Lagrène, Marc Ducret, Jim Black, Michel Portal, la Campagnie des Musiques à Ouïr… Pulcinella also collaborated with Emile Parisien's Quartet (Victoires du Jazz 2009), the singer Leïla Martial (1° prize at the Concours National de Jazz de La Défense 2009), the singer Hervé Suhubiette, the Grolektif de Lyon, traditional Indian musician Debojyoti Sanyal and Sougata Roy Chowdhury, the Hungarian band Dzsindzsa (album « Panthers’ Play » on label BMC, released October 2009).

Pulcinella exports its music : touring in Kazakhstan (2014), England (2014),Ukraine (2012) ; Kyrgyzstan (April 10), Morocco (Nov. 09), Romania (Oct. 09), Bulgaria (Aug 09), en Hungary (may 08 and 09), Ukraine et Moldavia (sept. 08), Slovakia (May 08) Switzerland and Italy (June 07), Senegal (May 07)…

Awards

Label Découverte FSJ 2006 ; Jazz Migration 2007 (AFIJMA) ; Jazz Primeur 2009 (Cultures France) ; JMF Tour 2012/2013 ; Match & Fuse 2014


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Pulcinella: Bestiole

Read "Bestiole" reviewed by Bruce Lindsay


Pulcinella shares its name with a character from the Commedia dell'Arte--he figures rather charmingly on the band's website--and declares its mix of jazz, rock, tango and Baltic traditions to be “delocalised jazz." Presumably this refers to the music's international identity--no single place can lay claim to the Pulcinella sound. Bestiole, Pulcinella's third album since saxophonist Ferdinand Doumerc brought it together in Toulouse in 2004, showcases a quartet whose breadth of musical vision moves from fast, energetic, dance rhythms to gentle, ...

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"A sexy, swirling and magical midnight fair!" Matthieu Durand, JAZZ NEWS

"Demonstrative and poetic fantasy, walking by the borders of a strange and crooked universe, the music of these funny buffoons takes us to a sort of happy magic, sweet and barbarian" Jean Marc Gelin, JAZZMAN

"Subtle Arrangements, beautiful writing, skillful orchestration, great attention payed to the soloists interventions make the quality of Pulcinella's work, and the tremendous welcome of the public confirms" Philippe Méziat, JAZZ MAGAZINE

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