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XYQuartet is one of the most appreciated groups of the new Italian jazz scene. With three albums and many concerts in Italy and abroad, it was awarded "second best Italian group" by the magazine Musica Jazz. Born in 2011 in Italy, XYQuartet is a fusion of saxophonist Nicola Fazzini and bass player Alessandro Fedrigo. They create an original, exciting and innovative music with Saverio Tasca at the vibes and Luca Colussi at the drums. This project passes through different kinds of music and artistic languages updating them to Contemporary. The group explores new ways of composing with a quirk approach. For XY, to restructure the music form is an ethics to build-up the beyond-jazz. The "X" by Fazzini and the "Y" by Fedrigo represent two approaches, two ideas, two complementary artistic identities but also two instruments, like the alto sax and the acoustic bass guitar. After "Idea F" and "XY", "Orbite" is the third album by XY Quartet, released on April 12, 2017, not a random date, because in the same day, but in 1961, astronaut Yuri Gagarin became the first man to orbit the Earth. This release date is no coincidence: as a matter of fact, on 12th April 1961, Yuri Gagarin was the first man to journey into outer space and complete an orbit of the Earth. Musically speaking it's a big step towards the evolution of this band's musical language which goes from jazz to contemporary music, from prog to post minimalism and from pop to the latest NY in influences. To do so, they research and develop this new language in a creative and influent way, putting together all these different musical codes in a very homogenous form.

iT: Another Crying Game (Slo)

“We sing with our bodies. And if we dare, we open our soul through it. Whether we are aware of it or not - voice declares us. Voice defines our being. Voice is emotional, physical and therefore spiritual.”

Crying Games is perhaps Irena Tomažin Zagoričnik’s most recognisable piece and one she last presented at Druga Godba in 2012, where it met with a rapturous response. Another Crying Game, performed under the ‘iT’ moniker, continues and extends that earlier project, playing the music off against fragments of text and song lyrics, and interweaving voice, melody, monologue, dialogue, recordings, and loops that are cancelled by noise or refined in isolation. Another world premiere for this year’s festival.

https://youtu.be/bIIuOY4waWg

Elodie Pasquier

Elodie Pasquier is currently composer and leader of the "Mona" quintet, with an album signed with the Laborie Jazz label. Her solo also holds an important place in her artistic life, with an album planned for 2019, still with the Label Laborie Jazz.

Today, Elodie is the clarinettist of Jean-Marie Machado's "Danzàs" orchestra (ECM Records - La Buissonne), "Les Etrangers Familiers" of the Compagnie des Musiques Ouïr, "The Very Big Experimental Toubifri Orchestra" (Iran le Label) alongside Loïc Lantoine, her brand new quartet surrounded by Ch. Monniot, D. Ithursarry and A. Benoit.

She was also noticed as a guest or in meetings with Vincent Courtois, Franck Vaillant, Seb Boisseau, Tri Collectif, pAn-G, Fatso, la Marmite Infernale, Cirque Plume...

Elodie has also been the clarinettist of "orTie" (Laborie Jazz), "Marimbas de l'Exil" (Franco-Mexican opera / Charlotte Nessy), "Kazio Show", "Singe". She will have been a member of the Lyon collective "Grolektif" for 4 years.

She is now an associate artist of the Label Laborie Jazz, and accompanied by Metisse Musik.

Elodie Pasquier have been awarded the Prize for Best Instrumentalist at the Tremplin d' Avignon, winner of the Tremplin Jazz(s)Ra with the duo "orTie", elected "Etoile du Jazz" by Citizen Jazz, Best Instrumentalist at the Tremplin Jazz d' Oloron-Sainte-Marie.

Elodie Pasquier: clarinet, bass clarinett

https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=2&v=1jL-e_DsEH8

Elodie home page

Tickets: 15 €, retired, unemployed, students, members of Helsinki Jazz: 10 €

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