Being Human Being feat. Enki Bilal, Erik Truffaz and Murcof - Live at D'Jazz Nevers Festival.

Format:

• Video

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

• Electronic Music.
• Contemporary.
• Europe.

Local Subjects:

• Electronic Music.
• Contemporary.
• Europe.

Genre:

• Performance

Physical Description:

1 online resource (40 minutes)

Place of Publication:

Paris, Ile-de-France : Qwest TV, 2014.

Language Note:

• In English.
• Original language in English.

System Details:

video file

Summary:

It’s the story of a sound and light show like no other. First because it suggests a story, rather than telling one. Second, and more importantly, because it documents the meeting of two popular artists obsessed with dreamlike futures and twilit atmospheres: comic book artist Enki Bilal and trumpet player Erik Truffaz. One shocked the comic world with his tortured strokes and his Nikopol Trilogy, while the other left his mark on the jazz world with his diptych The Dawn/Bending New Corners and his incursions into electro hip hop. Subsequently, faithful to their hybrid paths, the two men conceived Being Human Being as a work at the crossroads of genres: Do Erik Truffaz’s trumpet, Murcof’s machines and Dominique Mufcof’s percussion create the soundtrack for a handcrafted animated film? Is it poisonous nu jazz? Trance 2.0? A mass for a dystopian age? An apocalyptic ambiance? Does Enki Bilal create his work to resonate with the trio’s improvisations? Is it the screen that influences the instruments or the other way around? One thing is certain: onstage at the D'Jazz Nevers Festival, the atmosphere is unsettling, somber and synthetic, just like the characters the cartoonist works and reworks live on his graphic palette. Beyond concentrated, the quartet wears the serious expressions of actors totally immersed in their roles. Almost a year later, this creation was recorded on the Swiss label Mundo Recordings, but it’s from this live, instantaneous form that it draws its strength and its purpose. Mathieu Durand

Notes:

• Performed Maison de la Culture - Salle Philippe Genty
• Title from resource description page (viewed July 15, 2024).