Sylvain Rifflet « Troubadour » at Sunset-Sunside

In the Oc language, Trobador designates the "finder", at the same time creator, composer and performer of poetry and music. Sylvain Rifflet is a worthy descendant of these twelfth-century troubadours, whose last quartet portrays him: from project to project, he finds new ways to combine and make the word jazz resonate. By taking an interest in monodic medieval music, accompanied at the time by a drone, he adopted a shruti-box, an Indian instrument. Alolone on stage, he confronts the marvelous hushed and airy sound of his saxophone with this fascinating drone, around the first musical poems of love and some jazz standards....

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In the Oc language, Trobador designates the "finder", at the same time creator, composer and performer of poetry and music. Sylvain Rifflet is a worthy descendant of these twelfth-century troubadours, whose last quartet portrays him: from project to project, he finds new ways to combine and make the word jazz resonate. By taking an interest in monodic medieval music, accompanied at the time by a drone, he adopted a shruti-box, an Indian instrument. Alolone on stage, he confronts the marvelous hushed and airy sound of his saxophone with this fascinating drone, around the first musical poems of love and some jazz standards.

Dans la langue d’oc, Trobador désigne le “trouveur”, à la fois  créateur, compositeur et interprète de poésie et de musique. Sylvain  Rifflet est un digne descendant de ces troubadours du XIIe siècle dont  son dernier quartette fait le portrait : de projet en projet, il trouve  de nouvelles manières de conjuguer et faire résonner le mot jazz. En  s’intéressant à la musique médiévale monodique, accompagnée à l’époque  par un bourdon, il a adopté une shruti-box, instrument indien à anches  libres et à soufflet. Seul sur scène, il confronte le merveilleux son feutré et aérien de son saxophone à ce fascinant drone, autour des premiers poèmes musicaux de l’amour et de quelques standards de jazz. Un solo soufflant au son d’un saxophone volant en suspension autour d’un fascinant bourdon.

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