No Tongues at Bray Jazz Festival at Bray Town Hall

No Tongues are a boundary breaking French 4tet an a captivating musical journey that finds its inspirations in the many and varied vocal traditions across the globe.

Whether it is Northern European songs about ploughing, remote tribal Indian burial hymns, Inuit wedding songs or Siberian psalmodies, ‘No Tongues’ celebrate these and other song cultures within the context of jazz improvisation. In concert, the result is a stylistic diversity in music that can be atmospheric, trance-like and oddly shamanic.

No Tongues perform with two double basses, trumpet, saxophone and other objects. Their shows, sometimes performed in mask, are captivating, both musical and visually....

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No Tongues are a boundary breaking French 4tet an a captivating musical journey that finds its inspirations in the many and varied vocal traditions across the globe.

Whether it is Northern European songs about ploughing, remote tribal Indian burial hymns, Inuit wedding songs or Siberian psalmodies, ‘No Tongues’ celebrate these and other song cultures within the context of jazz improvisation. In concert, the result is a stylistic diversity in music that can be atmospheric, trance-like and oddly shamanic.

No Tongues perform with two double basses, trumpet, saxophone and other objects. Their shows, sometimes performed in mask, are captivating, both musical and visually.

The young quartet are recently chosen laureates for the prestigious Jazz Migration Award in France, having been selected from more than 100 contenders.

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