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Trio d'en bas

LINEUP :
Samuel Bourille : Piano, Keyboard, Sax Soprano
Arnaud Rouanet : Tenor Sax, Bb Clarinet & Bass Clarinet
Yoann Scheidt : Drums, Vibraphone, Trombone

INTERNATIONAL REF. :
Roma Jazz Festival (ITALY) / Hong Kong Jazz Festival (HONG KONG) /Jarasum International Jazz Festival in Gapêyong (COREE DU SUD) / Jazz Club Evans in Seoul (KOREA) /Sappho Jazz Club in Taipei (TAIWAN) / Kuandu Art Festival in Taipei (TAIWAN) / Ethno Jazz Festival in Chisinau (MOLDAVIA) / Jazz Carnival in Odessa (UKRAINA) / Gaume Jazz Festival (BELGIUM) / Festival Jazz de Castejon de Sos (SPAIN) / Festival Jazz y Nuevas Propuestas in Caracas (VENEZUELA) / Festival International Jazz in Naguanagua (VENEZUELA) / Festival International Jazz in Barquisimeto (VENEZUELA) / Sala Lavarden in Rosario (ARGENTINA) / Parc Gorki in Moscow (RUSSIA) / Club Zavtra in Moscow (RUSSIA) / Decompression Festival in San Francisco (USA) / Canvas Gallery in San Francisco (USA)

FRANCE REF. :
Festival Europa Jazz in Le Mans / Jazzdor Strasbourg Festival / Reims Jazz Festival / Jazz à Porquerolles / Grenoble Jazz Festival / Jazz à Junas / Festival Jazz in Marciac / Dynamo des Banlieues Bleues à Paris / Festival Jazz de Nevers / Atlantique Jazz Festival in Brest / Tendance Festival à Calais / Festival Lubéron Jazz / Les Rdv de l'Erdre in Nantes / Festival Jazzèbre in Perpignan

BIO :
The Trio d’en Bas was founded by Arnaud Rouanet, Samuel Bourille et Yoan Scheidt, in 2003.
It is the result of a progression of artistic projects that brought three unusual musicians together: Arnaud Rouanet, Yoann Sheidt, and Samuel Bourille. Up to the founding of the Trio each of them spent years accumulating creative experiences with other musicians until they finally met as members of the “transartistic” project of the Companie Lubat de Gasconha. As time went on their collaboration seemed the logical conclusion of their friendship and shared desire for artistic exploration and musical experimentation.
D’en bas “from below” has social connotations in French, to which the group make reference as a conscious choice to stay connected with a certain reality of the precariousness of life as an artist. In response to the aggressiveness of the contemporary media’s rhetoric and to turn publicity taglines on their heads, they coined a slogan of their own that roughly translates as “high-brow music for low-brow France” or the utopia of art that is accessible yet complex and demanding.
Since 2003 the Trio d’en bas has navigated between concerts in their original trio form and hybrid forms born out of collaborations with other artists: music and circus, music and theater, music and painting, music and dance, music and video...

Awards

Jazz Migration Contest winner 2010 (FRANCE) Conferred by the AFIJMA (the Association of Innovative Jazz and Contemporary Music Festivals) and the FSJ (Federation of Jazz Venues)


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Formed in 2003, the three musicians have played with some of France's historic jazz figures such as reed players Michel Portal and Louis Sclavis. Whilst the trio exhibited an undoubtedly strong grounding in the jazz tradition, it veered towards free/avant exploration at times, without sacrificing melody or rhythm. The trio stumbled out of the blocks with an improvisation-cum-sound check, which saw tenor saxophonist Arnaud Rouanet unfurl knotty yet rousing lines in a dialogue with drummer Yoann Scheidt, as pianist/keyboardist Samuel Bourille fine-tuned the piano's wiring.

Rouanet and Scheidt found a groove and milked it, with Scheidt vocalizing the motif. Bourille's tuning rather seamlessly became one with the improvisation, his heavy piano chords adding rhythmic weight before the others dropped out, leaving him to solo. Alternating between light and heavy touch, Bourille built an elegiac and hypnotic groove. Rouanet rejoined, first on tenor and then on clarinet, accompanied by Scheidt on trombone. Rouanet and Bourille engaged in a delicate exchange, with the clarinet evoking a Turkish melancholy. This episodic opener was an appetizer for the trio's unorthodox, inventive approach to music.

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