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International Guitar Festival Fribourg
September 23. - October 2, 2011 |
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Gérald Zbinden (Guitar)
Switzerland
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The avant-guitariste Gérald Zbinden was born in 1956. He lives near Gruyères in the French part of Switzerland. Diploma at conservatory of Montreux.
Collaborations with Daunik Lazro, Gary Lucas - Ex-Captain Beefheart - (CD down the rabbit hole), Emilie Lesbros, Harald Kimmig, Makoto Sato, Camel Zekri (Festival de l'Eau), Fabrice Charles, Günter Müller (radio DRSII), Hélène Breschand (CD l'intense), Iwana Masaki - dance (Festival Belluard), Jacques Demierre, Keith Rowe (Festival Belluard), Marcel Papaux, Michel Doneda (CD instant songs), Ninh Le Quan, Raymond Boni(European/Russia-tour, CD release in 2008), Shunishiro Hisada, Tetsu Saitoh, Urs Leimgruber (Festival Belluard), Dominique Répécaud, Etage 33, Foofwa d'Imobilité - dance, Franziska Baumann, Henry Kaiser (SKIF Russia), Alexei Pliousnine (SKIF), Denis Beuret, Daniel Studer, Christian Wolfarth, Vinz Vonlanthen & others.
Main activities involve not only musicians but also writers, dancers, painters and video-artists. Gerald Zbinden gives musical workshops with non musicians to prevent Burn out at University of Fribourg. As member of M.Ar.Im (musiques et arts improvisés) he animates musical outdoor group- work in the mountains where he lives. Other pedagogic activities include conducting of ensembles with 10-12 musicians.
Recordings:
DOWN THE RABBIT HOLE with Gary Lucas "Recorded at Artefax Studios in Lausanne, this album brings together two world class avant-guitar masters, Gary Lucas and the Swiss guitarist Gerald Zbinden, for a soundclash of epic proportions. The pair met in Saint Petersburg Russia at the 2004 SKIF Festival where they immediately bonded, and vowed to come together for an improvisatory studio session that would display the full panoply of their guitar styles in a voyage into uncharted sonic realms. The result is "Down the Rabbit Hole", a glorious panopticon of refractory post-modern guitar as viewed through the lens of Lucas and Zbinden's protean shape-shifting, kaleidoscopic music and 6-string sorcery. The pair conjures up images of blasted lunar landscapes, melting arctic icecaps, volcanic molten eruptions from the earth's core. Joining them on some tracks are the peripatetic polyrhythms of free-jazz drummer Marcel Papaux."
MOSCOW TAXI with Raymond Boni, will be released in 2008
L'INTENSE with Hélène Breschand & Michel Doneda, released in 1999
INSTANT SONGS with Michel Doneda & Marcel Paupaux, released in 1997
As guest:
SPRING ROAD 01, Michel Doneda, Tetsu Saitoh & others
zwanzigmal SoloSchichten, 2002, a project of Bamberg & Micol
COMPLOT 1, A project of ARTEFAX with Mathias Demoulin, Daniel Perrin & others
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Emilie Lesbros (Vocals)
France
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After studying the violin for 10 years, fascinated by the voice, Emilie Lesbros enters the conservatory and begins studying jazz and classical singing.
Passionately interested in these two vocal techniques, she also experiments with different styles (baroque, contemporary, electronic music, experimental rock...) and, wanting to utilise the whole range of these experiences, starts to search for her musical and vocal personality.
She starts to find and develops her personal vocabulary in 2002, when she works with Barre Phillips and Lionel Garcin on improvised and experimental music.
Meeting these accomplished musicians, coupled with her travels around the world enable her to widely explore her voice and lead her to find her own solo vocal in 2005.
She tells stories with or without words, through matter and sound projection, with humor, gravity and emotion...
Today she participates in numerous creative and improvisational projects that suit her language: collaborations with, collective EMIR, Raymond Boni, Daunik Lazro, Hélène Breschand, Fantazio, David Allen, Giorgio Rossi, Eve Risser, Catherine Jauniaux, Geneviéve Sorin, Archaos ...
She is also the singer of the experimental rock group Rosa, as well as Fonétic, which specialises in destructured jazz with contemporary harmonies.
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