From the album "Trapani - Halq al-Waady".
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L' ENFANCE ROUGE - Azizati


L' ENFANCE ROUGE. The Red Childhood. A French-Italian Trio, then a Occidental-Oriental Sextet, based in between Reykjavik and Borj El Khadra. More than 1800 concerts from 1995, from Vilnius to Tbilissi, from Berlin to Sevilla as from Paris to Siracusa. Electricity. Blue lights. Still uncontrolled.

Avant-rock. Without boundaries, neither musical nor geographical. The European press talks about them as crossroads between introversion and acceleration, between cerebralism and wildness or barbarity. Unpredictables.

From its beginning, L’ ENFANCE ROUGE performed more than 1800 concerts from Vilnius to Tbilissi, from Swinoujscie to Sevilla as from Prague to Tunis, invited by international festivals, theatres and clubs.

"Rostock-Namur" the last-but-one album of L' Enfance Rouge has been released totally free downloadable on the web site www.enfancerouge.org (with more than 17.000 downloads).

TRAPANI ~ HALQ AL WAADY, recorded in between Tunis (TN) and Lecce (I), is the newest album produced by L' ENFANCE ROUGE. A certain pan-occidental electricity melted with splendorous oriental grandness. An inventive synergy in-between larsens, feed-backs and these famous arabic quarter-tones. The arrangements are signed by Mohamed Abid, unchallenged 'ud master from the "Orchestre National de la Rachidia", composer and teacher at the "Institut Supérieur de Musique" of Tunis.

If the whole occident is to be closed again on itself, its musicians are getting internationalists. By specifying that on both sides of the Mediterranean Sea there was of course no will to carry out a fashionable and well-formatted world-music, nor no orientalist tourism or intellectual colonialism.

Trapani-Halq al Waady : a direct and short from-North-to-South line. Trapani is the last European port, Halq al Waady is the first Ifrikian harbour.

L' ENFANCE ROUGE :
François R. Cambuzat - voice & guitar, Chiara Locardi - voice & bass, Jacopo Andreini - drums
On Tour : Occidental Trio and/or Oriental Electrical Sextet.

SOME CONCERTS:
Montreux Jazz Festival (CH), Fusion Festival (DE), Festival Musicas Do Mundo (Sines, PT), Klangbad Festival (DE), Dour festival (B), festival Garorock (Marmande-F), festival Artefacts (Strasbourg-F), festival Musiques Volantes (Metz-F), festival Rockomotives (Vendôme-F), festival des Volcaniques de Mars (Clermont Ferrand-F), Festival itinérant Trasporti Marittimi (Europe), festival BadBonn Kilbi (CH), festival Bear Rock (Andenne-B), Brise-Glace (Annecy-F), Maroquinerie (Paris-F), L'Antipode (Rennes-F), L'Ampli (Pau-F), Grand Mix (Tourcoing-F), la Laiterie (Strasbourg-F), la Cave à Musique (Mâcon-F), l' Olympic (Nantes-F), Noumatrouff (Mulhouse-F), VIP (St Nazaire-F), Antirouille (Orléans-F), Dachstock Reitschule (Bern-CH), L'Ancienne Belgique ( Bruxelles-B), 4ad (Dixmuide-B), G's Club (Barcelona-E), Col-legi Major L. Vives (Valencia-E) ...

DISCOGRAPHY :
SWINOUJSCIE-TUNIS, L'Enfance Rouge, 1996 Compilation /// « RADIOIRA », il Manifesto, I, 1997 /// TAURISANO-CAJARC, Taccuini C.P.I, Polygram, 1998 /// REUS-LJUBLJANA, L'Enfance Rouge, Tripsychord, 1998 Compilation /// « TRIENNI » TalpClub, G3G Records Barcelona, S, 1999 Compilation "Il Mucchio Selvaggio", I, 2000 /// DAVOS-LEROS, Audioglobe, I, 2000 /// Compilation "Cosmonaute", AnorackRecords, F, 2003 /// ROSTOCK-NAMUR, Audioglobe-L'Enfance Rouge, 2003 /// KRSKO-VALENCIA , Wallace Records, I , October 2005 /// KRSKO-VALENCIA (+ 2 unpublished numbers), T-Rec Records, F , May 2006 /// LA REPUBLIQUE DU SAUVAGE, Irfan (F) + FromScratch (I), 2007 /// TRAPANI - HALQ AL WAADY, March 2008, T-Rec Records, F + Wallace Records, I.

VIDEOS:
- IN SEXTET (+ maghrebi musicians) :
Azizati (live at L'Antipode - F) ; http://www.dailymotion.com/unjour_peutetre/video/x6s7cm_azizati_music
Terre d'élections (live at L'Antipode - F) : http://www.dailymotion.com/unjour_peutetre/video/x6s7gq_terre-delection_music
- IN TRIO :
Barrio Chino (live at Brise-Glace - F) : http://www.dailymotion.com/relevance/search/enfance%2Brouge/video/x3gx3k_barrio-chino
Hurricane Lilly (live at Brise-Glace - F) : http://www.dailymotion.com/relevance/search/enfance%2Brouge/video/x3twz3_lenfance-rouge-hurricane-lilly_music

PRESS CUTS :
...The UFO of the season ! This is the perfume of freedom... Libération-F

Particularly exotic journey : the music is like the Vesuvius downhill after the eruption, guitars got the slow combustion, and explode sometimes into geysers and pierce erratic crevasses... This electric craft - made with pencil more than bludgeon - pushes the notion of the musical violence into its most unseen entrenchments. In France, very few musicians are able of that kind of scenarios... Les Inrockuptibles- F

...Collusion of worlds dives us into a fantasy and unreal landscape, between urban shadows and desertic vertigo, between the warm languor of the arabic chant and the raw urgence of the European electric energies. A lucid and wild music. Mouvement - F

... You are in a trip, cradle exotic with instruments, and - BANG ! -, they awake you like rare into an electric rage worthy from the good days of Einstürzende Neubauten... But you can't find any other more dorsal sharper than this North-south one, that comes a lot further into North and South. From one side: the oriental splendour driven by a 'Oud master, and on the other a pure virtuosity of chaos, completely bursted out, between collapse of larsens and sismic ruptures... Magic-F

...Instrumentists who decided to overtake any genre of any time... La Repubblica - I

...Singularities that give a perfume to reactive compositions, soft and acid, for a dreamlike geography outside of the beaten track. Le Monde de la Musique-F

... pan-mediterranean free-rock ... Il Mucchio Selvaggio- I

...Well celebrated by Sonic Youth and Thurston Moore, L'Enfance Rouge blasted-off the audience... Concert&co.com

...Extra-europeans grooves, occidental & ghoulish feedbacks, oriental & uncut quarter-tones. This new record is huge, but especially unique: nobody before succeed so honestly in blending these genres -and please don't talk about a Kashmir of Zeppelinesque memories. With the musicians of the Orchestre de la Rachidia from Tunis, L' ENFANCE ROUGE went much further, beyond the Western fortress... A.D. / T.M. #08


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