SAGES COMME DES SAUVAGES - KÙZYLARSEN

By replacing the word images with savages, the duet implies that the wise ones might not be as tamed as they seem and certainly no silent postcards.

Sage Comme des Sauvages

Sages Comme des sauvages is a French duet that implies much more than one country and two people: their debut album Largue la peau, is furrowed by journeys and returns, musing and borrowings. Their name is a pun, a word play. In French, the expression sages comme des images means to be seen and not heard, litteraly “tamed/wise as a picture”. By replacing the word images with savages, the duet implies that the wise ones might not be as tamed as they seem and certainly no silent postcards. Like any good pun, their name is hard to translate, but not more than Einstürzende Neubauten.

Before becoming a duet, Ava Carrère and Ismaël Colombani had followed diverse and dense sidestreets. French-American raised in Greece, Ava Carrère’s family history explains her speaking five languages and her porosity towards any kind of culture. She came to music after studying visual arts, during an art residency in Berlin. Autodidact and unable to write music, she doodled songs on Garage Band and turned them into performances, pretending to play cardboard bass, doublebass and guitar while singing her whacky chansons, inspired by her life in Berlin. But as she returned to France, where music scenes are more partitioned, her set appeared problematic: too unclassifiable, too many entangled languages… Stubborn, mundane and lucky, she managed to insert herself in the alternative chanson scene. She’s about to meet Ismaël.

In collaboration with FrancoFaune and Ubu. 

Kùzylarsen

Having found peace while traveling the planet, Mathieu Kùzylarsen wants to invite you for a similar experience. With his oud and electronic bass, he and his compagnon Alice Vande Voorde sweep you away through delicate arrangements and his gentle vocals. Topics like the unbearableness of being, but also love and sensuality, are made more accessible by the music evoking both oriental and western echoes. In Kùzylarsen’s world, you are in a peaceful Babylonian garden, while thunder rumbles in the distance.