Music, electric guitar and effects, pic, Christian Vasseur
2021

1'30 avant la fin du monde (4)

1'30 avant la fin du monde (3)

1'30 avant la fin du monde (2)

1'30 avant la fin du monde (1)

Charlie Beresford, guitar
Christian Vasseur, weissenborn 
2022
Weissenborn made by Ermanno Pasqualato

Christmas On Stowe Hill (Charlie Beresford)

Improvised prelude, excerpt from the CD Hiwaya by Djuwel (Playa Sound).
Eleven strings alt guitar by Philip Woodfield.
Photo by François Daumerie.

Prélude au Lamento

Musique réalisée pour un court métrage d'Arnaud Ferret. Tous les sons sont réalisés avec un liuto forte 12 cordes de Michael Haaser, quelques objets plus des bruits de porte, une sonnette, des sons radiophoniques extraits de la bande son du film. Merci à Hervé Séchet pour sa chanson.


Suite Chandernagor

Composed and played by Christian Vasseur
Recorded by Olivier Lautem in 2007
Ph.F.Daumerie

Chanson

All instruments and voice by Christian Vasseur.
Around 1995! Ph. François Daumerie

Ma valse a mis le temps 1

Paysage 2

Music by Christian Vasseur
Guitar and voice : Marie-Caroline Lebriez, Claude Burvenich
Diatonic accordion and voice : Laure Chailloux
Cello and voice : Timothée Couteau
photo : Philippe Lenglet
Recorded in 2008

Morphée Absent

Music by Denis Streibig (electronic)and Christian Vasseur (electric and midi guitars) 2006, photo Denis Streibig


Les chromonautes (with Denis Streibig)

Improvisation tribute to Jimmy Hendrix. 
Christian Vasseur,  nylon guitar. 
26/01/2016

Tombeau de Johnny Allen Hendrix

Tribute to Paul  Bley, made with improvisations stratums. Nylon guitar, 12 strings liuto forte and ukrainian bandura. Sample from Paul Bley's Alone Again. Commissionned by Victor Sequi for Alina Records (2016)

Play Blue

CHAOS for soprano and octet cellos. 

Comissionned by le Festival de musique sacrée de Perpignan.
Première's recording on March 31/2018 at Eglise des Dominicains in Perpignan.
Dorothée Pinto, soprano and Otto Celli (Joël Pons, Melina Rouquie, Marie- Madeleine Mille, Edgar Cassellas, Florence Marie, Isabelle Nazon, Anna Carne and Shani Megret).

-Inspired by the very beginning of Ovide's Metamorphoses, Chaos is the evocation of the origin of the world as imagined by the Greek and Latin cosmogonies. The poet's words come to life thanks to the singer, priestess-shaman-choryphée who says and sings the cosmic transformations while guiding the cellos choir, shaper of a protean matter in search of balance.

-At the beginning the singer is motionless, placed in front of the octet in the center. She has her head bent down, her hands hiding her face. Little by little in silence she straightens her head and her hands slowly reveal the face. Then the lips come to life slowly, a breath is born, primitive sounds before the verb animate the body of the singer in a calm and minimal gestures as if she discovered her own power, her vital energy. Then the words come to tell the chaos and the birth of the world. At the end the universe contracts, words are lost, we return to primitive sounds, breath and nothing. The singer's face gradually disappears behind her hands, the cellos replay the initial chaos.


Texte d'Ovide :
Ante mare et terras et quod tegit omnia caelum unus erat toto naturae uultus in orbe, quem dixere chaos: rudis indigestaque moles nec quicquam nisi pondus iners congestaque eodem non bene iunctarum discordia semina rerum. nullus adhuc mundo praebebat lumina Titan, nec noua crescendo reparabat cornua Phoebe, nec circumfuso pendebat in aere tellus ponderibus librata suis, nec bracchia longo margine terrarum porrexerat Amphitrite; utque erat et tellus illic et pontus I et aer, sic erat instabilis tellus, innabilis unda, lucis egens aer ; nulli sua forma manebat, obstabatque aliis aliud, quia corpore in uno frigida pugnabant calidis, umentia siccis, mollia cum duris, sine pondere, habentia pondus. Hanc deus et melior litem natura diremit. 

French trad. A.-M. Boxus et J. Poucet, Bruxelles, 2005] 
Avant que n'existent la mer, la terre et le ciel qui couvre tout, la nature dans l'univers entier ne présentait qu'un seul aspect, que l'on nomma Chaos. C'était une masse grossière et confuse, rien d'autre qu'un amas inerte, un entassement de semences de choses, d'éléments divisés et mal joints. Jusqu'alors, nul Titan ne dispensait au monde sa lumière, la nouvelle Phœbé, en croissant, ne renouvelait pas ses cornes, la terre dans l'air qui l'entourait n'était pas en suspens, équilibrée par son propre poids et, le long des terres, Amphitrite n'avait pas étendu la large bordure de ses bras. Il y avait là bien sûr la terre, la mer I et l'air, mais la terre était instable, l'onde non navigable, et l'air sans lumière. Rien ne gardait sa forme propre, et les éléments se gênaient entre eux. Dans un même corps luttaient le froid et le chaud, l'humide et le sec, le mou et le dur, le lourd et ce qui était sans poids. Un dieu, avec une nature mieux disposée, mit fin à ce conflit.

Photo, Philippe Lenglet

Chaos

Soliloques en loque

Philippe Lenglet : slide guitar and objects(old modified Framus)
Christian Vasseur : weissenborn and objects(luthier Ermanno Pasqualato)
Recorded on 5/12/2018

Photo : Philippe Lenglet

Slide 4 (With Philippe Lenglet)

Kawol Samarkand recorded an entire album in an hotel room. The open window let in the street's noises while he was improvising.
I love this way and this improvised piece is a kind of tribute.
Kawol has his very own way, his very own style. Lyrical, often minimalist with some echoes of a strange blues, only a guitar without stuff.

An instrument : acoustic nylon string guitar (Sanchis flamenca)
A place : flat on Avenue de la Forêt Noire in Strasbourg (France)
A day : july 24, 2018
A moment : begining of the night
A Scenery : avenue with a church, a moon and some cars passing
A recording stuff : Zoom H1
A painting : Olivier Aubry

Kawol's Dream

Music, weissenborn (made by Ermanno Pasqualato), bow, electric guitar, electronic, recording, mixing and mastering : Christian Vasseur
Guest : Soliloques en loque (Philippe Lenglet and Christian Vasseur, electric guitar)
2018
Photo : François Daumerie

Shroad Movie Music

Track 17 from Barreaux dans le ciel, vol 2 of my trilogy A la limite du présent published by https://thirstyleaves.weebly.com/
I composed, improvised, recorded & mixed these tracks during a 4-month residency (February-May 2017) in the north of France, where I worked with many people, among which (disabled) pupils & prisoners. I asked them to read, write & record haiku poems. The sound of their voices became the basis of this music project.

https://thirstyleavesmusic.bandcamp.com/album/barreaux-dans-le-ciel-a-la-limite-du-pr-sent-vol-2-3

Les Nuages

First I recorded an improvisation with my flamenca guitar.
Secondly I recorded another improvisation (same mood and same duration) with my steel string guitar without listening to the first one.
Thirdly I recorded a last improvisation (same mood and same duration) with my archtop acoustic guitar (distant echoes of unique John's touch) without listening to the other tracks.
The result is an aleatory counterpoint with some random interesting meetings.
Thanks to Mister Chance!
Dedicated to John Russel.

Guitars, recording, mixing : Christian Vasseur 

Recorded at Studio Becquerel.
10/17/2018

John Russell's Dream

Charlie Beresford and Christian Vasseur, acoustic guitar
Painting, Olivier Aubry

Charlie sent me a solo improvisation, I overdubbed my improvisation on it.

December 2018

One Four With Charlie (with Charlie Beresford)

From : https://thirstyleavesmusic.bandcamp.com/album/un-amour-infini-a-la-limite-du-pr-sent-vol-3-3

"Un amour infini" is the third part of my trilogy "A la limite du présent" : 
https://thirstyleavesmusic.bandcamp.com/album/cent-millions-dann-es-a-la-limite-du-pr-sent-vol-1-3
https://thirstyleavesmusic.bandcamp.com/album/barreaux-dans-le-ciel-a-la-limite-du-pr-sent-vol-2-3

I composed, improvised, recorded & mixed these tracks during a 4-month residency (February-May 2017) in the north of France, where I worked with many people, among which (disabled) pupils & prisoners. I asked them to read, write & record haiku poems. The sound of their voices became the basis of this music project.

12 tracks, 65'34".
Paru le 25 février 2019 

Christian Vasseur: acoustic, electric, weissenborn & bowed guitars,
archlute, piano, indian harmonium, electronics, clapping, voice & field recordings.

Featuring:
- Dominique Dauzat: acoustic guitar on #1
- Noël Debève: trumpet improvisations on #1 & 4
- Shaman/Chaman (Patrick Sourdeval & C.V.) on #6

Mastering by Christian Vasseur.

Artwork design by moody alien.
Packaging design by Pat Kiout Productions.
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"Thanks
-to Yksvokïacht, Rengaw, Hctivokatsohc & Oigres Inurb,
-to Évelyne Dromart, Tristan Dagonnet, Bruno Duvergé & Maxime Delière for welcoming me so kindly in Sud-Artois,
-to all the kids making sounds with all sorts of noisy objects at school, as well as their teachers who were deeply involved in this residency: Maud, Lætitia D., Estelle, Valérie, Lætitia P., Sandrine, Nathalie, Isabelle, Lysiane & Daniel,
-to cc-Sud Artois and DRAC Hauts de France
-and, finally, to moody alien for his trust!"

Un amour infini

Un Amour Infini (from the third part of my trilogy "A la limite du présent")

Music and archlute: Christian Vasseur
Recorded in 2014

Prélude et Frère Jacques

Improvisation
Christian Vasseur: eleven string alto classical guitar (Philip Woodfield).
Second to eighth strings quarter tone tuned.
Recorded on 07/14/2020
Pic: Philippe Lenglet

Notturno 2

De bon matin pour 1 rasoir quintuplé

Musique au poil, barbante et rasoir.
After many randomized double-blind tests, I can assure you that it is also appreciated by hairless people. 
Christian Vasseur: shavering, recording, editing, mixing and mastering on 02/16/2021

De bon matin pour 1 rasoir quintuplé

Christian Vasseur had been learning the guitar on his own for some time when he met his first teacher Pascal Boëls. 
Then, he took classes at the Conservatoire de Lille with Jean-Philippe Grüneissen and discovered the Renaissance Lute with Eugène Ferré at the Conservatoire de Toulouse for four years and took classes with renown Lute players such as Paul O'Dette and Yasunori Imamura. Practicing the Lute made him curious of improvisation and oriental music. At this time he began to perform on stage with various bands or solo, playing Early music with the Lute as well as contemporary music with the guitar. 
After several years of Early music repertory, He chose to dedicate himself to stage performance and music writing. At this stage, he started introducing some acting in his performances, mixing acoustic and electronic sounds, improvised and written pieces. 
For 15 years, he has been teaching musical theater and free improvisation classes to various groups of people : 
children and adults teen-agers in custody at the Maison d'Arrêt de Loos ; 
disabled adults and children (Compagnie de l'Oiseau Mouche at Roubaix, Ecole de Pratique Théâtrale at Villeneuve d'Ascq, psychatric hospital of Saint-André ). Meeting with highly vulnerable or helpless people has had a deep influence on the way he works today. 
Christian Vasseur has composed many pieces of music for various instruments and bands. Truly motivated by the possibilities offered by music applied to other disciplines, he works with video artists, dance and theatrical companies.

The Christian Vasseur' music borrows as much from classical tradition as from popular music. It is free of any form of dogma. As a polymorphic musician he every often takes part into interdisciplinary events where music combines itself with other artistic media, such as photography, video, dance and theatre. In theatrical events, his music acts as a counterpoint to the text, creating an extra voice, sometimes melodic, sometimes dissonant or noisy, based on the requirements of the staging, where acoustic and electronic sounds usually intermingle. Christian Vasseur plays lute too and composes new original music for this instrument. On top of solo concerts,he usually plays in a duet with cello player Jean-Christophe Lannoy (N’Gaddi), with guitar player Philippe Lenglet (Soliloques en loque, free improvisation), with belgian guitar player Gilbert Isbin (Bubble Fauna, free improvisation), with electronic music composer Denis Streibig (Les Chromonautes) with Djuwel (trio with singer and lute player Habib Guerroumi and Jean-Christophe Lannoy, two albums on Playa Sound label). He founded the band Mr Agata which plays tinny electro hardbarock opera music (La vie d'un homme on Dog Eared records). With the comedian musician Patrick Sourdeval he founded the duet Chamane/Shamane. He joined the electric guitars quartet OGR in 2010 and create the duet Fire Walk With Us with the eight string guitar player Steve Gibbs in 2018. Two CDs (Alam and Poèmes saturniens) was edited in may 2009 by Humming Conch.
More albums here : https://christianvasseur.bandcamp.com/
A trilogy is published by Thirsty Leaves :
https://thirstyleavesmusic.bandcamp.com/album/cent-millions-dann-es-a-la-limite-du-pr-sent-vol-1-3
https://thirstyleavesmusic.bandcamp.com/album/barreaux-dans-le-ciel-a-la-limite-du-pr-sent-vol-2-3
https://thirstyleavesmusic.bandcamp.com/album/un-amour-infini-a-la-limite-du-pr-sent-vol-3-3

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