Cabaret Rocher Trio
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17th November – 7:00 PM
Tansen Samaroh, Gwalior
Alliance Française de Bhopal is happy to collaborate with the Department of Culture of Madhya Pradesh to welcome the French jazz group Cabaret Rocher Trio for the 100th edition of Tansen Samaroh in Gwalior, a festival of Indian classical music.
The Tansen Samaroh is a century-old festival held in Gwalior in honor of a prominent Indian classical music composer. The band is composed of 2 clarinet masters and 1 drummer, researches, experiments and blows a hybrid music that sails between dancing tunes and melancholic ballads between Breton, Balkan, free and jazz sounds.
Group biography
Etienne Cabaret & Christophe Rocher are both multi-clarinetists from Brittany, West of France. They have a large fan following in France, collaborated with various renowned musicians and travelled worldwide with their duo set up. They’re now presenting a new original line-up: 2 clarinetists and 1 drummer. The band has created a mixed repertoire fusing jazz and with Breton traditional music, tinged with imaginary sound textures that only improvisation can reveal. The result is a free, hybrid music that moves between danceable tunes and melancholy ballads, between Breton, Balkan, free and jazz sounds.
Creator and artistic director of the Nautilis Ensemble, he defends a certain idea of free, open and generous improvisation. For 25 years, the clarinettist has played with some of the greatest improvisers, including Bernard Lubat, Hamid Drake, Rob Mazurek and Steve Coleman, and created his own music with the Ensemble Nautilis. He now heads up an international exchange programme between Brest and Montreal, as well as a series of projects combining the arts and science, an approach that reflects the idea that music knows no boundaries
Well known for his ‘treujeun gaol’ (traditional Breton clarinet), he has developed an electro-acoustic bass clarinet sound that flirts with jazz, rock and improvised music. He set up the Compagnie des Musiques Têtues and plays with Moger, Arn, Gosseyn, Dièse3, etc., taking his musical practice to a wide range of genres, from world music to traditional music, but always with a modern approach.
He began playing the instrument at the age of 9, and turned to jazz and improvised music at the end of the last century, studying with Césarius Alvim, Steve Mc Craven, Guillaume Orti, Benoît Delbecq and Carlos Zingaro.
With the groups Oko, Shampoing, Art ensemble of Brest and Rah-slup, he has developed a drumming style that combines timbral research and polyrhythmic combinations, an approach that he has also applied to other aesthetics (pop, rock, Breton music, electronic, etc.) with the groups Moger, Faro, Naab and Faustine, or to other disciplines (theatre, dance, silent film) with the Dékoeff show, the Hiatus company, the For Trink Quartet, etc.
With improvisation at the heart of his practice, he also works on writing and arranging, and has composed for Farokestra, Apsis, Rah-slup, Moger Orchestra and the Nautilis ‘evergreen creation.
A sought-after musician in Brittany, he also plays with other inter-regional and international groups (Bonadventure Pencroff, Ayrad trio, Kami octet, Third coast ensemble, Abajur…). He has played in a wide range of venues, including festivals, concert halls, cabarets, bars, chapels and hairdressing salons in France, Luxembourg, Italy, Germany, Poland, the United States and Brazil.