Grand Sbam - Janus CD
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Dur Et Doux 076
Even by Le Grand Sbam standards, this is a big, intense work! The group call it an ‘Opéra Chthulu’ and I am not going to argue with Chthulu...
This is super intense, while also being a bit tongue-in-cheek, with a LOT going on.
Léo Margue - Conductor
Pauline Laurendeau - Vocals
Caroline Sentis - Vocals
Agnès Potié - Vocals
Louise Perret - Vocals
Jessica Martin Maresco - Vocals
Olivier Germain Noureux - Vocals
Ismaël Colombani - Vocals
Antoine Mermet - Vocals
Thomas Arnera - Vocals
Lucie Leker - First Violin
Fany Fresard - Second Violin
Dorothée Royez - Viola
Emilie Martin - Double Bass
Clélia Bobichon - Clarinet
Pierre Horckmans - Bass Clarinet
Pierre Glorieux - Bassoon
Nathalie Cornevin - Harp
Mihaï Trestian - Cimbalom
Romain Baret - Electric guitar
Boris Cassone - Electric guitar
Matthieu Lemennicier - Electric guitar
Antoine Arnera - Keyboards
Guilhem Meier - Drums and percussion
Benoit Lecomte - Electronics
“Janus : a philo-zoophic, zoopunk, Chthulu, ecofeminist album.
or how to reconnect with the living world through our flatulence?
In JaNuS, a Chthulu opera composed by Antoine Arnera, the Grand Sbam Orchestra, with humor and poetry, sets out on a journey to reconnect humanity with the living world.
It explores compost, fossils, and the dead through novel practices, in a triple homage to the courageous scientist Jean-Pierre Petit, the ecofeminist biologist and philosopher Donna Haraway, and Matshish Kapéu, a powerful spirit of the Innu people who uniquely expresses himself through farts—a trivial breath transformed into cosmic language.
This new opus by Le Grand Sbam, an excerpt from the opera Janus, revolves around a major cycle: the hybrose. A collective ritual of hybridization of the living, where waves, rhythmic loops, and organic flows dissolve us into a multiple entity—a holobiont.
Each track acts as an initiatory stage: through hypnosis, trance, and ragga, it invokes our invisible double, essential to the balance of life—the tshishma.
To bring this sensory libretto—co-written by Thomas Arnera and Antoine Arnera—to life, Le Grand Sbam deploys a rich sonic palette—acoustic, electric, and vocal—embodied by 23 musician-actresses.”
- LabelDur et Doux
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