{"id":31101,"date":"2024-04-18T09:38:57","date_gmt":"2024-04-18T07:38:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.camac-harps.com\/blog\/?p=31101"},"modified":"2024-04-23T09:53:17","modified_gmt":"2024-04-23T07:53:17","slug":"music-that-appeals-to-the-imagination-to-dreams-maxima-poesia-live-at-the-espace-camac","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.camac-harps.com\/blog\/en\/news\/music-that-appeals-to-the-imagination-to-dreams-maxima-poesia-live-at-the-espace-camac\/","title":{"rendered":"“Music that appeals to the imagination, to dreams”: Maxima Poesia live at the Espace Camac!"},"content":{"rendered":"

MAXIMA POESIA<\/a> are a group whose raison d\u2019\u00eatre<\/i> is to accentuate the living relationship between poetic writing and modern jazz.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Using texts from a variety of different styles and highly distinctive authors (amongst them\u00a0 Arthur Cravan, Joyce Mansour, Jacques Vach\u00e9 Peter Handke and Boris Vian), Maxima Poesia seek to: \u201cgive the poem back its orality, its voice, its breath, proposing a contemporary Jazz where it can breathe\u201d<\/i>, in a musical language that combines elements of the Chanson tradition, spoken word and slam.<\/span><\/p>\n

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MAXIMA POESIA: Julien Dupont- Armstrong (bass and vocals); Anne Mispelter (harps); Gabriel Westphal (percussion); Nicholas Fargeix (clarinets) \u00a9Malik Chaib<\/p><\/div>\n

On 26 April, we are delighted to welcome this one-of-a-kind ensemble for a concert to the Espace Camac.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Although the connection between poetry and music has been intrinsic from antiquity, through folk traditions and in the classical song repertory, something about the way in which Maxima Poesia holds the poetic texts in absolute primacy feels unusual. Julien Dupont-Armstrong, bassist and vocalist and (although one senses that he would resist the term \u2018front-man\u2019) he succinctly represents this unique ensemble and their artistic message:<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThe links between poetry and music are almost ‘natural’: poetry is the music of words and music the poetry of sounds!<\/i> Poetry inspires us in that it drives a musical writing process centred on the ‘oralisation’ of a text not originally intended to be performed vocally, as such.<\/i> This pushes us towards interesting musical research.\u201d<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n

The group\u2019s appearance at our Paris home is part of a national tour celebrating their latest release Une Ode \u00e0 la po\u00e9sie des marges (<\/i>Production Collectif Eph\u00e9m\u00e8re \/ Distribution DistroKid)<\/a>. I ask the group what lies behind this evocative title and what listeners might expect from this exploration and mingling of forms:<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cOn our album, “Une Ode \u00e0\u00a0 la po\u00e9sie des marges” (An ode to the poetry of the margins), we showcase some relatively unknown authors, including Arthur Cravan and Joyce Mansour.<\/i> Their writing is organic and dazzling.<\/i> \u201c<\/span><\/p>\n

For Julien, the die was cast early, and the opportunity to inhabit poetic texts that hold such personal meaning has informed the artistic vision of the group: \u00a0<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThese authors have played a special role for me, they shook me up when I was a teenager, as did Boris Vian, who may have been better known, but during his lifetime often suffered from a lack of understanding.<\/i> He was a true ‘jack-of-all-trades’ of genius.\u201d <\/i>He adds: <\/i>\u00a0\u201cIn France we like to pigeonhole people, and he was just the opposite!\u201d<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n

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