Dossier de présentation KAZE

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KAZE!
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Satoko!Fujii!(piano)!
!Natsuki!Tamura!(trompette)!
Christian!Pruvost!(trompette)!
Peter!Orins!(batterie)!
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Two!internationally1renowned!Japanese!musicians!!
+!two!extraordinary!French!musicians!
=!electrifying!new!music!for!the!world.!
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Les!membres!de!ce!quartet!international!partagent!!
un!appétit!insatiable!pour!l'expérimentation!sonore,!
une!énergie!et!un!enthousiasme!débordants.!
Mélodique,!abstrait,!mystérieux,!beau,!audacieux,!
Kaze!délivre!un!free!jazz!créatif!et!puissant.!
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Infos,!audio,!photos,!vidéos!:!
Sur!le!site!du!collectif!Muzzix!:!!http://www.muzzix.info/Kaze!
Sur!le!site!de!Peter!Orins!:!http://www.peterorins.com/kaze/!
Sur!le!site!de!Satoko!Fujii!:!http://www.satokofujii.com/projects.Kaze.html!
Sur!le!site!du!label!CircumNDisc!:!http://www.circumNdisc.com/kazeNtornado/!
Muzzix – 51 rue Marcel Hénaux - 59000 Lille
Tel : +33 (0)9 50 91 01 72
www.muzzix.info
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Histoire!
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Peter! Orins! rencontre! Satoko! Fujii! et! Natsuki! Tamura! en! 2002,! alors! qu’il! invite! à! la! malterie! à! Lille! le!
quartet!de!la!pianiste.!Ils!ont!alors!l’occasion!d’entendre!le!projet!du!batteur,!Impression!(qui!s’appelle!
aujourd’hui! “Flu(o)”),! et! très! vite! des! liens! se! créent! entre! le! batteur! et! la! pianiste,! une! envie! de!
musique,!tant!les!connexions!sont!évidentes.!
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Avril!2010,!Peter!Orins!invite!enfin!les!2!musiciens!japonais!dans!le!cadre!du!festival!Muzzix,!avec!pour!
quatrième!compagnon!le!trompettiste!Christian!Pruvost.!Naît!alors!une!musique!libre!et!sans!limite,!où!
les! propositions! musicales! de! chacun! (écrites! ou! non)! provoquent! une! alchimie! instantanée.! Au! jeu!
explosif! et! gracieux! de! Satoko! Fujii! répond! une! batterie! rock,! usant! du! contrepoint! et! du! contraste,!
tandis! que! les! deux! trompettistes,! tous! deux! possédés! d’une! imagination! antique! et! d’une! curiosité!
insatiable!autour!de!leur!instrument,!se!complètent!et!se!fondent!joyeusement.!
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Quelques!mois!après!cette!création,!les!musiciens!se!rencontrent!à!nouveau!pour!jouer!en!Allemagne!et!
en!Pologne,!notamment!pour!un!concert!à!Cracovie,!dans!le!cadre!du!bicentenaire!de!la!naissance!de!
Chopin.! C’est! à! cette! occasion! que! Natsuki! Tamura! compose! Noise! Chopin,! et! Satoko! Fujii! Blast,! deux!
hommages! appuyés! au! compositeur,! et! c’est! ce! concert! qu’on! retrouve! sur! Rafale,! premier! disque! de!
Kaze.!
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Biographies!
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Satoko!Fujii!est!une!pianiste!japonaise!prolifique!:!multipliant!les!big!band!(à!
Tokyo,!New!York!ou!Nagoya),!elle!dirige!également!plusieurs!formations,!dont!
plusieurs!quartet!et!projets!avec!Natsuki!Tamura!(Four!avec!Mark!Dresser!et!
Jim! Black,! Quartet! avec! notamment! Tatsuya! Yoshida! des! Ruins,! MinNYoh!
Ensemble!avec!Curtis!Hasselbring!et!Andrea!Parkins…).!Natsuki!Tamura,!outre!
ces!projets,!mène!également!son!propre!quartet,!Gato!Libre.!
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http://www.satokofujii.com/!
http://natsukitamura.com/!
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Christian! Pruvost! et! Peter! Orins! sont! tous! deux! membres! du! collectif! lillois!
Muzzix.! Ils! participent! ensemble! à! de! nombreux! projets! de! ce! collectif! :! La!
Pieuvre,! Circum! Grand! Orchestra,! Round! the! world! of! sound! (spectacle! sur!
Moondog! sous! la! direction! de! Didier! Aschour),! Quartet! Base! qui! devient! en!
2014! Quintet! Base! avec! l’arrivée! de! Christian! Pruvost! en! 2ème! trompette,!
Flu(o),!Signal!Box…!
Ils!ont!tous!deux!un!projet!solo!dont!l’album!est!sorti!sur!le!label!Helix/CircumN
Disc!:!Christian!Pruvost!“Ipteravox”!(2010)!et!Peter!Orins!“Empty!orchestras”!
(2014).!
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http://muzzix.info/Pruvost!!
http://muzzix.info/Orins!
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Discographie!
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Uminari!N!CircumNLibra!Records!203!N!2015!
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Tornado!N!CircumNLibra!Records!202!N!2013!
Rafale!N!Circum!N!Libra!Records!201!N!2011!
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“Another!superb!jazz1qua1jazz!concert!was!played!by!the!Japanese/French!quartet!Kaze.!Pianist!Satoko!
Fujii!was!a!real!surprise!–!her!monstrous!keyboard!technique!uses!every!inch!of!available!space!to!create!
a! harmonic! and! textural! framework! for! the! other! players,! trumpeters! Natsuki! Tamura! and! Christian!
Pruvost,! plus! drummer! Peter! Orins.! The! dynamics! were! defined! by! a! great! mix! of! quiet! extended!
technique! weirdness! and! free! blowing! passages! that! emphasised! the! unusual! qualities! of! the! line1up.!
Never!heard!anything!quite!like!it,!and!their!new!disc!Uminari!(Circum1Libra)!is!excellent”!(about'Kaze'at'
FIMAV'2015)'–'Byron'Coley,'The'Wire'
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“From!another!double1up!angle,!the!rarely!heard!sound!of!two!trumpets!collaborating,!interweaving!and!
cross1talking!is!at!the!center!of!the!group!Kaze,!whose!penultimate!set!of!the!festival!was!also!one!of!the!
high! points! of! the! overall! program.! Japanese! pianist! Satoko! Fujii! and! her! husband,! trumpeter! Natsuki!
Tamura,!teamed!up!with!musicians!from!Lille,!France—trumpeter!Christian!Pruvost!and!drummer!Peter!
Orins—five! years! ago,! and! formed! this! unique,! bass1less! quartet.! The! quartet! has! honed! a! strong!
distinctive! group! sound! over! the! course! of! three! albums,! and! at! FIMAV,! the! set! list! slalomed! from!
structured! parts! to! an! increasingly! free1spirited! abandon,! as! the! musicians! felt! freer! than! usual! to!
dispense!with!rules!of!conduct!or!even!standard!practice!on!their!instruments.!For!the!record,!they!did!
navigate!a!few!chord!changes,!here!and!there,!on!the!way!“out.””!(about'Kaze'at'FIMAV'2015)'–'Josef'
Woodard,'Downbeat'
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“This! year’s! edition! of! Victoriaville! was! perhaps! the! strongest! I! have! attended—this! was! my! fifteenth!
FIMAV! in! a! row—and! Sunday’s! performance! by! Kaze,! the! quartet! of! pianist! Satoko! Fujii,! trumpeters!
Natsuki! Tamura! and! Christian! Pruvost,! and! drummer! Peter! Orins! was! my! favorite! of! the! concerts!
presented! this! year.! As! impressive! as! the! music! itself! and! the! musical! techniques,! particularly! the!
extended!techniques!of!Tamura!and!Pruvost,!was!the!control!over!the!very!sound!of!the!instruments!and!
the! way! the! air! moved! in! the! room.! Fujii’s! piano! playing! was! impressive,! and! Orin’s! colorings! were! in!
perfect!synch!with!her.!Not!only!that,!but!the!music!was!really!quite!humorous,!Tamura!letting!out!his!
comedic! side! with! a! section! employing! small! instruments,! including! a! pig! squeeze! toy! that! he! used! to!
great!effect—the!effect!in!aid!of!the!music,!and!not!as!a!side!dish!or!gimmick.”!(about'Kaze'at'FIMAV'
2015)'–'Mike'Chamberlain,'All'About'Jazz'
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“this!was!fantastic!jazz!at!its!most!exciting”!(about'Kaze'at'FIMAV'2015)'–'Byron'Coley,'exclaim.ca!
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“Intense! and! playful,! down1to1earth! and! international,! Kaze! communicates! in! a! musical! language! of!
contrasts!and!continuity.”!–!Virginia'Schaefer,'JazzTimes'
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“I!can!report!nothing!but!complete!astonishment!at!how!amazing!the!show!by!Satoko!Fujii!and!Kaze!was!
last!night!at!Duende!in!Oakland.”!–'Larry'Blood,'KUSP'
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“Just!back!from!one!of!the!most!musically!dynamic!and!intense!“jazz”!sets!of!the!year:!Satoko!Fujii’s!Kaze!
quartet!at!Duende,!with!Natsuki!Tamura!and!Christian!Pruvost!on!trumpets!and!Peter!Orins!on!drums.!If!
you!think!you!can!imagine!what!piano,!drums,!and!two!trumpets!will!sound!like,!think!again.”!—!Derk'
Richardson,'KPFA'Radio'
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“Takes! jazz! abstraction! to! a! sublime! limit.! And! it! does! sound! like! the! process! of! abstract! painting! —!
everything!is!about!balance,!the!relationship!of!mark!to!ground,!the!shape!of!lines,!with!vague!reference!
to! a! tonal! center! of! fixed! time1keeping…! There! is! suspense,! virtuosity,! mystery,! calm.”! –! Jon' Garelick,'
Giant'Steps'
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“The! music! built! slowly! and! deliberately! through! long! ambient! stretches,! and! when! the! sophisticated!
melodies!showed!up,!they!were!dispensed!with!in!a!matter!of!seconds.!Fujii’s!quartet!could!go!from!0!to!
100! at! the! drop! of! a! hat,! but! only! once! in! a! while,! and! nearly! always! at! the! perfect! time…! Romantic,!
cacophonous,!intelligent,!and!thoroughly!without!pretense.”!–!Steve'Mossberg,'Arts'Fuse!
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“I!first!heard!Kaze!at!Jazz!Art!Sengawa!2011.!!The!group!has!unusual!instrumentation!–!two!trumpets,!
drums!and!a!piano!–!and!their!performance!was!extraordinary…!!I!actually!felt!that!their!music!expressed!
the!wind!itself,!the!turbulence,!breeze,!whirlwind,!the!first!gale!of!spring….Kaze!is!a!wonderful!new!group!
on!the!jazz!scene.”!–!Koich'Makigami,'Artistic'Director'of'Jazz'Art'Sengawa!
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“What!I!personally!love!about!the!music!of!Satoko!Fuji!is!what!I!love!about!the!music!of!Myra!Melford.!
It’s!the!journey!of!truth.!Whether!it’s!the!large!ensemble,!small!groups!with!her!husband!or!indeed!as!is!
with! her! most! recent! recording,! solo! piano,! it’s! always! a! voyage! of! discovery.”! —! John' O’Brien,' Radio'
host,'Giant'Steps'(Australia)'
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“I!was!blown!away!by!their!collective!virtuosity!and!by!their!kinetic!interaction,!from!the!first!notes!they!
played.!The!two1trumpet!line,!in!some!ways,!hearkens!back!to!Louis!Armstrong!and!Joe!Oliver…!Satoko!
Fujii’s! virtuoso! piano! formed! an! integral! part! of! the! ensemble,! negotiating! between! poly1directional!
rhythms! and! entwined! melodic! lines,! sometimes! subtending! the! performance! harmonically,! sometimes!
offering!percussive!counterpoint.!Her!playing!is!dynamic,!ever1present,!but!also!open!and!responsive.”!–!
Kevin'McNeilly,'Frank'Styles.com!
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“Best!live!show.”!—'Masahiko'Yuh,'Jazz'Tokyo,'2011'
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UMINARI!(2015)!
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“As!in!the!other!albums,!there!is!lots!of!‘plot!development’!in!a!story1telling!fashion,!with!high!levels!of!
dramatic!moments!and!catharsis,!yet!it!never!comes!across!as!construed,!and!more!as!the!result!of!the!
organic!movement!of!the!music!itself.!A!wonderful!collective!achievement.”!Stef'Gijssels,'Free'Jazz'Blog!
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“Put! the! whole! thing! together! with! the! compositional! motives,! moods! and! varied! sequencing! of! who!
plays!and!who!lays!out!and!you!get!something!avant!in!ways!that!are!well!thought!through.!It!all!keeps!
the! serious! listener! busy! and! fascinated,! involved! from! moment1to1moment! following! the! many! event!
developments! and! their! very! musical! and! often! unexpected! twists! and! turns.! Another! great! one! from!
Kaze!!Give!this!one!your!ears!and!it!will!give!back!in!kind.”!Grego'Edwards,'Gapplegate'Music'Review!
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“This!is!an!album!to!die!for.”!–!Raul'da'Gama,'JazzdaGama!
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“This! makes! their! music! very! organic.! Complex! and! intellectual! on! the! one! hand,! but! also! wild! and!
natural.!Great!work!”!–!Dolf'Mulder,'Vital'Weekly'
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“There’s! plenty! of! open! space! here! for! all! the! players! to! develop! ideas! individually! and! together,! all!
taken,! a! step! forward! from! their! previous! release! Tornado,! but! like! that! one,! this! also! requires! some!
attention! and! plenty! of! listens! before! it! all! makes! sense,! but! the! persistence! pays! off.”! Peter' Thelen,'
Exposé'
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“Se!jouant!des!clichés!du!style!pour!véritablement!se!déporter!sur!tous!les!terrains!sonores!et!stylistiques,!
Kaze!offre!un!exemple!convaincant!de!free1jazz!d’aujourd’hui.”!Vincent'Cotro,'Jazz'Magazine!
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Muzzix – 51 rue Marcel Hénaux - 59000 Lille
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Dates!passées!
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18/04/10!>!La!malterie,!Lille!
13/11/10!>!Bunker,!Bielefeld!(Allemagne)!
15/11/10!>!Manghaa,!Cracovie!(Pologne)!
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TOURNEE!JAPONAISE!
05/09/11!>!Dsk!Union!Jazz!Store,!Shinjuku,!Tokyo!
06/09/11!>!Nu!Things,!Osaka!
07/09/11!>!Jazz!Inn!Lovely,!Nagoya!
08/09/11!>!Inage!Candy,!Chiba!
09/09/11!>!Pit!Inn,!Shinjuku,!Tokyo!
10/09/11!>!Jazz!Art!Sengawa!2011,!Tokyo!
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11/12/11!>!La!malterie,!Lille!(Jazz!en!Scènes!2011)!
12/12/11!>!Sunset!Sunshine!Jazz!Club,!Paris!
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TOURNEE!ISRAEL!
09/09/12!>!Ashan!Ha!Zman,!Be’ersheva!
10/09/12!>!Levontin7,!Tel!Aviv!
11/09/12!>!Ha!Tzoletet/Yellow!Submarine,!Jérusalem!
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14/09/12!>!Jazz!Club!Hanseat,!Salzwedel!(Allemagne)!
30/09/12!>!Conservatoire,!Caen,!14!
02/10/12!>!Les!Arcades,!Fâches!Thumesnil,!59!
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TOURNEE!USA/CANADA!
23,!24!et!25/08/13!>!The!Stone,!NYC!(EtatsNUnis)!
28/08/13!>!Chicago!Temple,!Chicago!(EtatsNUnis)!
30/08/13!>!Heaven!Gallery,!Chicago!(Etats!Unis)!
31/08/13!>!Chicago!Jazz!Festival!(EtatsNUnis)!
01/09/13!>!Woodfords!Congregational!Church,!Portland!(EtatsNUnis)!
03/09/13!>!Lily!Pad,!Boston!(EtatsNUnis)!
04!et!05/09/13!>!Duende,!Oakland!(EtatsNUnis)!
07/09/13!>!Guelph!Jazz!Festival!(Canada)!
08/09/13!>!La!Sala!Rossa,!Montreal!(Québec)!
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20/03/14!>!Chez!l’habitant,!Lille,!59!
14/07/14!>!Festival!Jazz!à!Luz,!LuzNSaintNSauveur,!65!
30/08/14!>!Jazzfestival!Saalfelden!(Autriche)!
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TOURNÉE!CORÉE/JAPON!
25/09/14!>!EBS,!Seoul!(Corée)!
28/09/14!!>!Pit!Inn,!Tokyo!(Japon)!
29/09/14!!>!Coo,!Sapporo!(Japon)!
30/09/14!!>!Jazz!in!Lovely,!Nagoya!(Japon)!
01/10/14!!>!Candy,!Chiba!(Japon)!
02/10/14!!>!Workshop!N!Université!Zokei,!Tokyo!(Japon)!
03/10/14!!>!Big!Apple,!Kobe!(Japon)!
04/10/14!!>!Bird,!Okayama!(Japon)!
05/10/14!!>!New!Combo,!Fukuoka!(Japon)!
06/10/14!!>!Blue!Note,!Kyoto!(Japon)!
08/10/14!!>!Sakuraza,!Kofu!(Japon)!
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11/10/14!!>!Yokohama!Jazz!Promenade!(Japon)!
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TOURNÉE!EST!
13/11/14!!>!Külh!Spot!Social!Club,!Berlin!(Allemagne)!
14/11/14!!>!Alternativa!Festival,!Prague!(République!Tchèque)!
15/11/14!!>!Klub!Alchemia,!Cracovie!(Pologne)!
16/11/14!!>!Pardon!To!Tu,!Varsovie!(Pologne)!
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08/12/14!>!Enregistrement!public!émission!“A!l’improviste”!France!Musique,!Paris!!
10/12/14!>!Maison!de!la!culture!du!Japon,!Paris!
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17/02/15!>!“Trouble!Kaze”!(création!en!sextet),!Le!Kino!à!Villeneuve!d’Ascq!(59)!
08/03/15!>!Théâtre!71!à!Malakoff!(92)!
09/03/15!>!La!malterie!à!Lille!(59)!
11/03/15!>!Penn!Ar!Jazz!à!Brest!(29)!
12/03/15!>!Le!Carré!Bleu!à!Poitiers!(86)!
22/03/15!>!“Trouble!Kaze”,!Le!Petit!Faucheux!à!Tours!(37)!
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TOURNEE!USA!+!CANADA!
17/05/15!>!FIMAV,!Voctoriaville!(Canada)!
19/05/15!>!Array!Space,!Toronto,!Canada!
20/05/15!>!Kaze!+!Toronto!Musicians!>>!Array!Space,!Toronto,!Canada!
21/05/15!>!National!Music!Center!/!Bug!Incision,!Calgary,!Canada!
23/05/15!>!Yardbird!Suite,!Edmonton,!Canada!
24/05/15!>!Soup!&!Sound,!New!York,!ÉtatsNUnis!
25/05/15!>!Lily!Pad,!Boston,!ÉtatsNUnis!
27/05/15!>!An!Die!Musik!Live,!Baltimore,!ÉtatsNUnis!
28/05/15!>!Downtown!Music!Gallery,!New!York!City,!ÉtatsNUnis!
29/05/15!>!Woodfords!Congregational!Church,!Portland,!ÉtatsNUnis!
30/05/15!>!Mercury!Lounge,!Ottawa,!Canada!
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26/08/2015!>>!Kaze!>>!Festival!Meteo,!Mulhouse,!France!
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