« What’s in a Bird ? » se demandait Bashung… Dans BlauBird, il y a cette voix grave venue du lyrique, des textes délicats et des mélodies nocturnes douces et fortes à la fois. Après avoir chanté Mahler, Dowland et Schubert de nombreuses années, BlauBird nous offre son abandon à elle-même, son étrangeté et ses émotions à fleur de peau. Elle affirme ainsi une identité singulière dans le monde de la chanson actuelle, à la fois poétique, mélodieuse et nourrie d’influences du monde entier. Sur son deuxième album, « Le Ciel est Partout », elle a travaillé à Montréal avec François Lalonde, percussionniste, réalisateur et arrangeur, que l’on avait vu aux côtés de la chanteuse Lhasa de Sela. Ainsi, avec une voix envoûtante où l’on entend parfois Barbara ou Joan Baez, BlauBird nous mène toujours plus loin dans son univers … vers des contrées vaporeuses et apaisées, au confluent des musiques traditionnelles, du folk, du classique et de la pop. En français, mais aussi parfois en anglais, yiddish, arabe ou espagnol, nous nous envolons sur les ailes de l’Oiseau Bleu retrouver ses racines en Europe de l’Est et se perdre dans les jardins suspendus d’Orient …

« Rarement l’âme d’une artiste transparaît aussi nettement dans sa voix. » – Télérama

« L’oiseau bleu enchantera notre hiver. » – La Vie

«… BlauBird impressionne avec ce nouvel essai ! » – Rock&Folk

Son album « Le Ciel est Partout » (Elles et O Records / Kuroneko – sorti en novembre 2022) a été :

– Prix Catalyse du « Prix Moustaki 2023 »

– Coups de Coeur de l’Académie Charles Cros 2023

– Lauréate finaliste du Prix Joséphine des Artistes 2023

« LE CIEL EST PARTOUT … OÙ NOUS NOUS EMBRASSONS » M.Maeterlinck

Born in 1978, Brisa Roché was raised without electricity on the northwest US coast, where she surfed the waves made by an artist
mother and adventurer father, before leaving home with her guitar at 16 to spend the glory days of Grunge
in Seattle. There she traded her acoustic for an electric and began roughening up her voice of young Joni
Mitchell, inspired by the release of PJ Harvey's "Dry". 
The death of her father inspired Brisa to turn towards the masculine night-life world of jazz. She moved
to Paris and plunged into role of bandleader and frontwoman, improvising 5 nights
a week in the stone "caves" of St. Germain, cutting her teeth and learning to command the stage, putting the vulnerability of her own songwriting temporarily aside, in favor of the  vocal
freedom possible through jazz. However, discovered by Blue Note and signed to EMI in
2004, Brisa released a critically acclaimed first record that veered instead towards spacey, cinematic pop.
With "The Chase", she was ready once again to confront songwriting.
Her second album, "TAKES" came out on Discograph, psyche-pop with layers of dreamy Californian
vocals and an accessible folk element, including collaborations with Nick Zinner of The Yeah Yeah Yeahs.
After a 60 date tour, Brisa decided to produce on her own, went into hiding with her band and came out with
an astonishingly compact third album recorded by Henry Hirsch (Lenny Kravitz, Madonna, Mick Jagger..), hard heavy vocals with Blondie-esque hooks, a band-sound bordering
on garage... "ALL RIGHT NOW".

Brisa's most recent album release, entitled "Morning Noon and Night"  (THE LIGHTNIN 3) revealed a "girls' group" combining the vocal talents of Rosemary Standley(Moriarty), Ndidi O, and Brisa Roché, and fun-based early-soul arrangements by Toby Dammit (current drummer for Iggy Pop), with renowned King Khan on bass.

Her new record, « BRISA ROCHÉ/SECOND DATE » is scheduled for release the summer of 2013, an idiepop-electronica collaboration with British artist Second Date.

Brisa Roché’s visual art has appeared on all three albums and at gallery show "happenings" where live
music/performance narrates the pieces on display,  ranging from large, brutally painted portraiture to
graphic black and white drawings.

She was recently chosen as muse for the crystal company Swarovski, and as such has been active in
mutually inspired creation between the collection "Rock Royalty" and her own vision as painter, composer,
and égerie.

Brisa Roché as actress (as well as her original music) appeared in the film "After" by Geraldine Maillet, and she will appear in Michel Gondry's "L'Écume des Jours".  She is preparing for a role in Jean-Philippe Martin’s feature film « De là où tu es, tu peux m'entendre”, and her voice highlights the film  "Une Pure Affaire". 

Alisa Ten is called “a girl with a magic voice” and “a singer free of genre and language barriers”. As a child she took part in operas of the Bolshoi Theatre and the Boris Pokrovsky Theatre with the younger group of the choir. Then she studied jazz vocals at the Moscow College of Improvised Music and ethnic singing in India, participated in baroque vocal master classes of Jean-Francois Novelli (France). Now Alisa Ten takes part in a variety of projects such as The Museum of Sound Figurines by Peter Ajdu (the project of the Faculty of Historical and Contemporary Performing at the Moscow Conservatory), TWO DAUGHTERS baroque music project, NOVOSELIE ethno-baroque project (Petrovsky chants & their stylizations), The Defesa Brasileira Theatre (performing Brazil Tropicália music), the Chronos ensemble (performing early Russian music reconstructions),  etc., gives solo concerts in the USA, Tunisia, Great Britain, France and Germany.

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