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Clotilde Rullaud

Clotilde is an international multidisciplinary creator, artistic director, vocalist, flutist, producer, and facilitator who employs a range of artforms to generate new poetic languages. She combines music, song, dance, and the visual arts to make singular performance pieces, concerts, and films.

Her music and motion art movie XXY [ɛks/ɛks/wʌɪ] (2018) has been screened in over thirty festivals around the world and received several prizes and nominations. Her most recent album, A Woman’s Journey (2016) received sixteen awards, six of which were for the best album (in France and the USA). Clotilde’s second album, In Extremis (2008), was ranked among the top five albums of 2011 by The Sunday Times (UK) and 2013 by the NPR Annual Jazz Critics Poll (USA). Her international career has led her to perform at venues and festivals in Australia, Burkina-Faso, China, Germany, Korea, Japan, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Switzerland, Taiwan, UK and the United States.

Awards

XXY [ɛks/ɛks/wʌɪ]: Best Cinematography at the Shetown Festival Detroit, USA Best Emerging Vision at the Arts Triangle Festival Dallas, USA Best Music Video at the Paris Short Film Festival, France Nomination for the Audience Award at the Athens Video Danse Project, Greece Nomination for the Best Experimental Short at the Berlin Motion Picture Festival, Germany A Woman's Journey : 4 stars in All About Jazz (USA) and Fono Forum (Germany) Best Album of 2016 by Nathalie Piolé and Alex Duthil, France Musique Best Album of 2016 by Jazzmagazine and CitizenJazz Disk of the week by FIP TTT, Télérama (France) CHOC, Jazzmagazine (France) Indispensable, JazzNews (France) ELU, Citizenjazz (France) Sélection Jazz de Libération21 (France) « Oui on aime », Culturejazz (France) Album Jazz de l’été, Les Inrocks In Extremis : Ranked in the Top 5 albums of the NPR Annual Jazz Critics Poll: 2013 Ranked 5th best jazz album 2011 - SundayTimes Among the best 10 Jazz albums 2011 of Citizenjazz.com "Pick of the week" on Fip show on France Musique June 2011 TT - Télérama


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Madeleine & Salomon: A Woman's Journey

Read "A Woman's Journey" reviewed by Jerome Wilson


A concept CD that looks at the plight of women throughout history is timely these days but not unusual. This disc by the duo Madeleine & Salomon, however, stands out by drawing from a broader swath of musical sources than you might hear in most similar projects. They touch on familiar songs like Billie Holiday's “Strange Fruit" and Nina Simone's “Four Women" but they also go farther afield to do tunes originally performed or written by Janis Ian, Marvin Gaye, ...

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"XXY [ɛks/ɛks/wʌɪ], a transgender film, a multidisciplinary sensory experiment, an equation with several unknowns. An open and poetic work that upsets the senses and encourages reflection." Mediapart, France

"If there’s albums that possess an extra bit of soul, that possess the art of overwhelming you and taking you by the hand to never let you go, if there’s albums that grab you right in your gut and carry you beyond those few minutes where everything not only seems to have already been said yet also remains to be said, (...), then A Woman’s Journey is assuredly one of them.” LES DNJ, France

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Vocals

Willing to teach

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Credentials/Background

Master-class: With Martina A. Catella, Steve Coleman, Peterson Cowan, Marc Ducret, Elisabeth Howard, Constantin Lacatus, Dave Liebman, David Linx, William Parker, Sandra Rumolino. Teaching @ Glotte-Trotters (Paris, FR) - Jazz à Tours ( Tours, FR), CMDL (Dammarie-les-Lys, FR)

Nina Simone
piano and vocals

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