Clameurs is the current repertoire played and toured by the orchestra. It will also be the name of our tenth album at the beginning of this year. An album recorded in bits and pieces during the orchestra’s work sessions in very different places, depending on our residencies.
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What’s next? Do we (re)start cycling (zero), or (re)start something? Everything transforms or goes up in smoke, it’ll take the time and tears it takes, we could do without the tears. Elude, elude. Lots of concerts this month are putting a bit of it in our veins. Fresh globules, liveliness, movement that helps us to (re)create (movement), that which is said to be perpetual but which we know little about or prout (sic, we still have to allow ourselves) is not infinite, even if it is great (time). When will we be able (?) to offer you this record that we hope, go figure, but in the coming months. An object without a puck, whose form (1.0) has yet to be found, but which will be our music + a little something extra. Looking forward to it.
In the meantime, let’s meet up again at these September concerts, the repertoire of the moment, arranged in different lengths-colors, according to the fashionable back-to-school cut to be found in these different places, not everyone having the same for sure tastes and colors. In the meantime, in the hubbub of the cave, we’re concocting something new for us/you, music not heard, projects by the handful that will blossom/go out with elegance or fuss… and on your side we wish you: active human/spectators full of desires, a full page not yet blank to fill.
(Center Pompidou members only)
As promised a short while ago, the postman is making a comeback. His leather bag slung over his shoulder and his yellow bicycle. A little cardboard box stuck in the spokes to make a little noise. But it’s not a motorbike engine you hear in the morning fog, it’s a thundering drum roll you can hear as far as the eye can see, so loud you wonder if it’s the lion roaring in his chocolate savannah. But no, the circus today is without the lion. The circus today is Pic. In any case, it’s our very own circus. Under our huge, grandiose big top, with its string of wooden tiers, its black-painted floor, its secret passageways and its canvas with a sophisticated sound because we’re a musical orchestra. It’s Pic at la Grainerie, near Toulouse. Our red little marquee bar, set up not far away as a compadre to warm our butts, and see you underneath the before and after.
It’s December, and already the last of them. It looks like we’ve just started, but that’s just an illusion. Behind us: sixty or so performances, played out, dreamed about, applauded or sweated over. Thousands of spectators everywhere with their eyes wide open. Pleasures both small and enormous. Yes, an enormous thing to perform, but even more to move… and to place (that’s why we’re stopping, come on…).
So here’s a rooster crowing. Pic’s last. A whole team remembering these adventures, how many people? Forty, fifty, sixty? From the making of the steel utensil to the last-minute replacement for the fateful fall. An epic team. Some bought caravans, to huddle together in the hollow of the yellow and red canvas. Others climbed mountains, ugly plastic helmets crushing their blond curls, their muscles tetanised by the climb.
While others, inspired by these raw circus adventures, have invented a strange musical UFO. There are seven of them. A little form! (hmm compared to Pic) Offbeat compositions for a survival manual on an 8m track around a metal tree. Because endings are also new beginnings, Cosmo*phonie, a preview of a creation to be released in June 2025, opens the Place au Chap ball.
Before long, a great little film will be hitting the airwaves, concocted for us from Argentina by our friend Guadalupe Marín Burgin, with her big eyes and fine fairy fingers. It’s the first in a series of what we’ll easily call ‘clips’. These are moving images of some of our recent music, recorded over the course of our rehearsals and travels. We’ll be talking about travelling, about moving, about moving mountains, or moving through them. Let the music and images speak for themselves, in their own language, and let them collide, like the stones on the road, rolling and gathering moss until they are big, green and light (for their size).
We’ll call this series Clameurs, like the repertoire we’re playing these days, and this first opus Zutzuite, which begins deaf and ends bright.
Look, listen and tell us how and how much.
Release of Zutzuite, Clip and Single on 20 September!
Alongside this outing, the launch pad for an artistic form combining our music with the still and moving images of Guadalupe Marín Burgin, Surnatural Orchestra will be in concert on 13 October at Point-Fort, Aubervilliers, a new home for our activities. For us, it’ll be a vernissage, a landing, a cross-fertilisation… And we hope to see many of you there, open to this promising venue. See you there, out of curiosity.
doors open at 6pm
concert 6.30pm
174 avenue Jean Jaurès
93300 Aubervilliers
Métro 7 : Fort d’Aubervilliers
(à 5 minutes from the station)
Bus : 134 / 152 / 173 / 234 / 248 / 250 / 330
What are you up to these days ?
In this rather unsettling summer (after all, isn’t it?), we’re taking a sort of holiday together, a holiday to enjoy and share.
This summer, we’ll be playing PIC. In Prague, Czech Republic, at the hot Letní Letná circus festival. Lots of times, please.
And if you’re ever on the road, you’ll come across Nico (tenor sax, vocals) and Anne (dance, lights) on their bikes. Beautiful calves!
Whether these will be the first dates of a fantastic international tour, we don’t know.
PIC
Surnatural Orchestra
& Cirque Inextremiste
Letní Letná festival
Prague (Czech Republic)
August 15 to September 1
(OFF on 19 and 26)
What we do know, however, is that we’ll be rehearsing a series of them in the run-up to Christmas, this winter, in Toulouse (La Grainerie, Balma), under our big top, as open as possible. Performances will include Cosmo*phonie, a circus and music show initiated by members of the orchestra, and an almost non-stop forró festival… If, like the birds, you seek warmth when the cold rises, perhaps you’ll be there!
PIC
Surnatural Orchestra
& Cirque Inextremiste
la Grainerie - Toulouse
december 12 to 15 & 19 to 21
And do you know, after five years spent there building a place with our own hands (Caracol), we left the Echangeur (where a gentleman didn’t want us any more…), and headed for Pantin, where good friends welcomed us with open arms (le Tympan). These things take time and energy ! And so, searching high and low for a welcoming place to set down our trunks, we met up again with the folks from Le Point Fort, in Auvervilliers (inventors of the Villes des Musiques du Monde association), with whom we’re now looking forward to some wonderful artistic collaborations – keep your ears to the ground.
The past few months have also seen the fortuitous beginnings of a collaboration with Guadalupe Marín Burgin, an Argentinian painter and graphic designer. During a few concerts, she projected a series of colorful images onto us, images and sequences full of meaning that made us want to begin a long-term collaboration. Today, it’s a done deal, and this fall we’ll be unveiling a new kind of supernaturally imaged music video, not seen since the early days of mtv (all of which makes our audience so much younger).
An opportunity to salute Caroline Pageaud who, over the last few years, has worked with her brushes and pencils at our side, something she obviously continues to do, and you’d better follow her !
An overview of the hills and valleys through which PIC will pass?
It’s here :
▶ 2022
9, 10, 11 september — Paris, festival Village de Cirque
27, 29, 30 september, 1er et 2 octobre — Genève, Théâtre Forum Meyrin
11, 12, 13 october — Tarbes, Le Parvis
21, 22, 23 october — Auch, festival CIRCA
4, 5, 6 november — Mende, Théâtre de Mende
12, 13, 15, 16, 17 november — Blagnac, Odyssud
2, 3, 4, 6, 9, 10, 11 december — Antony/Châtenay-Malabry, L’Azimut / Théâtre Firmin Gémier
▶ 2023
13, 14, 15, 17, 18 january — Brest, Le Quartz
31 january 1str and 2 february — Quimper, Théâtre de Cornouaille, Scène nationale de Quimper
25, 26, 28, 29 april — La Rochelle, La Coursive
1er, 2, 3, 4 june — Elbeuf, Cirque-Théâtre
13, 14, 15, 16 june — Besançon, Les 2Scènes
How are you ? In your bodies in your heads? Maybe you are far away. But who isn’t today?! Are you free to go about? We wish you very much, whatever the mode. It happens in letters that the one who writes is more attentive to receiving news than to giving it. How are you ? On our side, in two words, we are concerned about pursuing our lives of inventions, and that transports us. Building the impalpable, masons without cement. But if all this is not addressed at a given moment, the sand slips between the fingers, the importance of the gesture crumbles. Will you be there ? There or as soon as possible? We are currently under our marquee, in Boulazac, in the Dordogne. Three dense weeks to finish making our show with the Inextremist and others, then play the first ones here. Will you be there ? We are aware of how lucky we are. A dry cold surrounds us under an often blue sky, the frozen ground cracks our soles. A winter, finally. A team of extraordinary people accompanies us, with nimble fingers. Caravanserai. Will you be there, in this wanted multiple marquee, drop-in daycare, full of sensational games and canvas house? We will make it live with you for the years to come, to sharpen your-our curiosity very strongly, to rub our noses. Will you be there? To rub their noses…
circus concert under tent for all ages / from 6 years old
Plain of Lamoura 24750 Boulazac Isle Manoire
parking access via Boulazac Bourg
informations, booking
This show is hosted in residence and co-produced by: CIRCa Pôle National Cirque, Auch Gers Occitanie; L’Azimut – Firmin Gémier Theater – La Piscine, circus center in Ile-de-France (and the Smallest Circus in the World – center for circus arts and emerging cultures); the 2-pole Circus Platform in Normandy, La Brèche – National Center for Circus Arts in Normandy and the Cirque-théâtre of Elbeuf; the Fratellini Academy (Saint-Denis) as part of a residence of the Departmental Council of Seine-Saint-Denis; The Jean Moulin-Les Guilands departmental park (Bagnolet-Montreuil); The Agora – PNC of Boulazac Aquitaine. Its creation is also co-produced by the Théâtre de Cornouaille – national scene of Quimper, center of musical creation; The 2 stages – SN of Besançon; the MSM-Normandy urban community; The Parvis – SN of Tarbes Pyrenees; La Coursive – SN of La Rochelle; The 2Rue2Cirque cooperative; Cirque Jules Verne – National Circus and Street Arts Center – Amiens; Inextremist. It receives National Circus Aid from the DGCA and aid for creation from the CNM, the Ile-de-France Region and the Spedidam. Collectif Surnatural is supported by the DGCA/DRAC Ile-de-France ( collective agreement and 2021 recovery fund), the Ile de France Region (PAC – investment aid), the Conseil Départemental 93 (departmental company – investment aid), the CNM (investment aid), the SACEM (aid for large ensembles) and punctually by Spedidam.
photos : © Matthieu Mounier
booking : Marie-Edith Roussilon / diffusion@surnaturalorchestra.com
communication : Catherine Cristofari / cristojazz057@gmail.com
www.surnaturalorchestra.com
Under this name La Toile, initially, a way of meeting between the orchestra, its vast repertoire, its availability of inventions, and circus people in their diversity. The meeting takes place during a short residency, on the achievements of the protagonists, a pooling of desires, the sharing of combinatorial possibilities of track numbers/orchestral energy… to lead to a form of show mixing the universes to the point of to melt. The result is a show that is a priori unique, performed on an ad hoc basis, combining between 20 and 25 people on stage, with the beautiful fragility inherent in the proposal…
Very diverse Webs have taken place since 2009 in various forms with members of the companies Les Colporteurs, Cirque Inextremiste, Basinga (Tatiana-Mosio Bongonga), L’Immédiat, Bikes & Rabbits, Cheptel Aleikoum, Toi Dabord…
A first “Toile” meeting with the Compagnie Inextremiste finally, a few years ago, gave rise to several evolving forms, all very diverse, preambles to the creation of an original circus show : Esquif. Here we put the cover back together… Eel under rock?!
sortie vendredi 20 novembre 2020
Reportée depuis le printemps, la sortie de notre disque Tall man was here devait se tenir le 26 novembre,
sous les lampions étoilés de firmaments électriques…
Qu’à cela ne tienne, il sortira quand même.
Sans fête en chair, mais restent les os, qu’on peut cogner l’un contre l’autre et, si l’on y fait des trous, faire tinter comme des flûtes.
Attachons-nous ensemble au plus difficile : garder/transmettre l’envie, l’énergie, la gaité des possibles, aérer les cerveaux, qu’ils ne se ratatinent tout ce temps comme de vieilles pommes au fond des paniers, dire aux enfants que nos bouches restent là pour être vues à sourire et grogner, que l’Humanité vit dans l’échange et le brassage depuis toujours, que c’est grâce à ça qu’on en est. Qu’on peut réfléchir et penser par soi-même, partager et s’aider des autres, même quand les temps sont durs et contraints.
Alors oui, même en carton, ce sera la fête de le sortir ce disque…
Pour écouter et/ou commander, c’est ici.