Félix BLUME
“Death in Haiti: Funeral Brass Bands & Sounds from Port au Prince”
16,00€
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Recorded in Port au Prince by sound artist Félix Blume in early December 2016, Death in Haiti plunges the listener into a world of pain, loss and solemn celebration as each funeral comprises of its own live jazz band as well as a plethora of characters like the joker (le blaguer) who cracks jokes and tales about the recently deceased.
A beautiful document of a thriving tradition, a counterpart or updated version of those famous Dirge Jazz records such as the New Orleans’ Eureka Brass Band on Folkways.
About the artist:
Félix Blume is a sound artist and sound engineer. His personal work is based on field-recordings and uses sound as a raw source, in sound pieces, radio plays, videos, actions and installations. A particularity of his work is that the audio and visual aspects are closely intertwined. As a sound collector, he has a large sound library recorded from different parts of the world that he freely shares on the Internet. His work as sound engineer focuses on sound recording, sound design for documentaries, feature films and video art, collaborating with different directors and visual artists.
Des musiques et des moments de funéraille enregistrés à Port au Prince en Haïti en décembre 2016 par Félix Blume.
“Death in Haiti” plonge l’auditeur dans l’intimité de la douleur et de la perte accompagnée de brass band aux accents de la Nouvelle Orléans avec parfois l’intervention de personnages caractéristiques chacun jouant un rôle précis, et des discours au bord de la transe.
Trippant !
