[Jazz and New traditions of Vivarais and the Cévennes]

Shaking styles and genres, bagpipes are setting off, emphasised by an accordion and strongly backed up by percussion and a sousaphone forming a powerful rhythmic unity. You're thrilling, moved by the wild accents of this musical procession masterly and voluptuously on the march.
Your eyes and ears get wide open.
On a stage, in the street, or anywhere else, nothing lacks to the performance
Lovers of traditional music and enthusiasts for new sensations are satisfied: the polyphonic search, in a domain that until recently remained monotonous and repetitive, gives more profoundness and deepness to the usual accents of the traditional music with mouth instruments.

Both for today and tomorrow

  
A new musical proposal  
 Our band, Le Syndrome de l'Ardèche, mixes up tones in anew way just as well onto festive traditional music (branles, bourrées, polkas waltz or farandoles from the regions Vivarais, Cévennes Velay Dauphiné) as onto personal compositions.
Every arrangement is original and a large part is attached to instrumental improvisation.
Our repertoire keeps growing richer in rhythmic inflexions from other sources.
French bagpipes, percussion instruments from the Maghreb, the sousaphone and diatonic accordion have found their fulfilment within an unexpected musical innovation, which surprises by its authenticity linking the Middle ages to the twenty-first century.
 

Performance possibilities

 
 

Formula Concert: performance inside or outside according to the season. Adaptable duration.*
Formula Parade: organised musical stroll.*

* To the previous formulae, a moment of dance can be added

The musicians

 
 

Isabelle BAZIN Diatonic accordion
Pierre-Vincent FORTUNIER Bagpipes from the Centre of France and Violin
Dominique GENTE Bugle
Joannes KOTCHIAN Tuba
Patrick SIBILLE Percussion instruments
Stéphane MEJEAN Music director, bagpipes and saxophones

Contact

 
 

LES SONNEURS DES 2 COTEAUX
2, rue Charles Forot
07300 Tournon/Rhône

Tel/Fax: 00 33 (0)4 75 07 00 76
Mail : le.syndrome@wanadoo.fr

Music extract on request