Carolina Katún / First Album

<p><strong>Carolina Kat&uacute;n: TEOL</strong></p><p><strong>&quot;Al silencio&quot;</strong></p><p><strong>Release on </strong><a target="_blank" href="http://www.jazzlandrec.com/">Jazzland Record</a><strong>&nbsp;in october 2018</strong></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><strong>The first album by the Mexican-Swiss singer CarolinaKat&uacute;n &quot; Al Silencio&quot; is an&nbsp;ode&nbsp;to silence.</strong></p><p><strong>The minimalist, crossover music is&nbsp;emphasized by a great variety of vocal sounds which&nbsp;revisit emblematic songs of the Latino American songbook.</strong></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><em>Carolina&nbsp;Kat&uacute;n choreographs the words that illustrate her songs with a diaphanous supple gesture. She delivers them to us with gentleness and accompanies the message she wants to convey until our faces are bathed with joy, gratitude and melancholy as well which Carolina Kat&uacute;n has to offer are delicately chiseled songs, in which a virtuoso&nbsp;music intertwines&nbsp;with a deep and blissful poetry.</em></p><p><em>- G. Tondini</em></p><p><img width="100%" alt="" src="https://d3v4jsc54141g1.cloudfront.net/uploads/project_image/image/525015/abbaye3--1528654138.jpg" /><em>&copy; Nicolas Moreaux</em></p><p><strong>Carolina talks about &quot;TEOL&quot; and the album &quot;AL SILENCIO&quot;</strong></p><p>TEOL is a creative band made up of some of Paris&#39; top jazz musicians. They share a similar musical vision and appreciation for traditional forms of music, a deep friendship and a sensitivity for perfectly accompanying the voice that binds the group together.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><em>&quot; There are meeting places in the music planet that have nothing to do with chance. It happened to meet the double bass player <strong>Nicolas Moreaux&nbsp;</strong>in Montreux Jazz Festival, then&nbsp;the guitarist <strong>Pierre Perchaud</strong>&nbsp;and the drummer <strong>Arthur Alard.</strong> This is how TEOL was created two years ago. <strong>TEOL</strong> means &quot;The spirit of the tree&quot; in Maya. This tree whose pollination depends on the winds, speaks several languages, sings different sorts of musics. &quot;</em></p><p>This band started playing together in 2016 mainly in Paris Jazz clubs. While interpreting and arranging, following the wishes of each musician,&nbsp;a collection of songs&nbsp;gradually&nbsp;emerged, mainly composed of latino American songs.).</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><iframe src="https://cdn.embedly.com/widgets/media.html?src=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fembed%2FcyIHwL9zr8I%3Ffeature%3Doembed&amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DcyIHwL9zr8I&amp;image=https%3A%2F%2Fi.ytimg.com%2Fvi%2FcyIHwL9zr8I%2Fhqdefault.jpg&amp;key=cb39d84f05d8439bbe96012f078e02b0&amp;type=text%2Fhtml&amp;schema=youtube" width="500" height="281" scrolling="no" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen=""></iframe></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><em>&quot; in Al Silencio&quot;, I was willing to tribute to some of the key songs that have impacted my life so far. This repertory is composed of a few of <strong>Latino American emblematic songs</strong> such as la ranchera mexicana &quot;La llorona&quot;, and others which are more unknown, as precisely &quot;Le tengo al silencio&quot;, an ode to silence...</em></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Through pieces by <strong>Robert Wyatt</strong> or <strong>Purcell</strong>, the band opens up to other horizons such as pop of baroque music.&nbsp;The specific&nbsp;quality of the band is to make each piece their own in <strong>a common spirit</strong>, bringing <strong>new arrangements</strong> in&nbsp;great&nbsp;simplicity. The group&#39;s&nbsp;openmindeness&nbsp;Carolina&nbsp;Kat&uacute;n to fit in.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><em>&quot;It&#39;s an eclectic repertory that enables me to explore all that is vocally possible, to give tribute to all those who have influenced me : <strong>Mercedes Sosa, Chavela Vargas</strong>, Lila Downs, Bjork, Sisdel Endresen.. The band&#39;s attitude, which is to make an already existing repertory song into an original way their own, gave me the creativity I was looking for and enable me to achieve myself. &quot;</em></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>My collaboration with Pierre Perchaud and <strong>Khadija Benouataf</strong> composer gave birth to 2 original&nbsp;<em>compositions sung in French. One of them &quot;Au fil de l&#39;eau&quot; will be made into a clip.</em></p><p><em>&quot;I discovered the writing of a very dear friend who has been able to adequately transcript what Pierre&#39;s compositions meant for me. That song also gave birth to my collaboration with the producer <strong>Thibaut Ponce</strong>, who imagined a wonderful script for the <strong>video clip</strong>.&quot;</em></p><p><img width="100%" alt="" src="https://d3v4jsc54141g1.cloudfront.net/uploads/project_image/image/525005/TEOLpochetteMP1-1528652823.jpg" /><em>&copy;&nbsp;Matthieu Ponchel</em></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Thanks to the work of an exceptional soundman, his fine approach and understanding of the band&#39;s expectations, TEOL quickly found it way in the studio des Bru&egrave;res in Poitiers.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><em>&quot;<strong>Tony Paeleman</strong> belongs of the same family of musicians met thanks to Nicolas Moreaux. The sound he has been able to bring was far beyond my expectations&quot;&nbsp;</em></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Another great encounter with a&nbsp;worldly&nbsp;known Jazz musicians will make us play together on a few pieces of this record.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><em>&quot;&nbsp;I&nbsp;happened to meet an incredible artist and so beautiful person : The Norvegian&nbsp;pianist <strong>Bugge Wesseltoft</strong>, who accompanies us on a few pieces of this album, and&nbsp;the truth is, that he loved our music so much that he suggested me to produce the album on his <strong>label Jazzland Records</strong>.&quot;</em></p><p><img width="100%" alt="" src="https://d3v4jsc54141g1.cloudfront.net/uploads/project_image/image/525021/IMG_3556BW-1528654873.jpg" /></p><p><em>&quot;I&#39;m deeply grateful to Bugge and the musicians for believing so much in this project. They have given me the energy I needed to find out the best existing ways to make this music live.&quot;</em></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>The musicians:</p><p><strong>Nicolas Moreaux,</strong> (double bass) awarded in 2013 by the <strong>Grand Prix&nbsp;de l&#39;Acad&eacute;mie Charles-Cros</strong> for his record &quot;Fall Somewhere&quot; on the Label Fresh Sound New Talent is well known for his gifted compositions and talented&nbsp;sideman</p><p><strong>Pierre Perchaud </strong>(guitar) : Recognized as one of the <strong>best French Jazzmen</strong>, nominated by the Victoire du Jazz as &quot;the artist of the year&quot; in 2016. Pierre Perchaud develops a lyrical interpretation of his own.</p><p><strong>Arthur Alard</strong> (drums) : strongly influenced by his playing African drums in his early childhood, Arthur Alard will go on with his career and will be rewarded the Price of Excelence at the CMDL. He&#39;s famous for his creativity and his crossover&nbsp;music style.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><strong><strong>L&#39;ALBUM :</strong></strong></p><p>1. Paloma Negra&nbsp;</p><p>2. Au fil de l&#39;eau&nbsp;</p><p>3. El Curruch&agrave;&nbsp;</p><p>4. La Llorona&nbsp;</p><p>5. Sea Song&nbsp;</p><p>6. Automne&nbsp;</p><p>7. Alfonsina y el mar&nbsp;</p><p>8. Arenita Azul&nbsp;</p><p>9. Dos Cruces</p><p>10. When I am laid&nbsp;</p><p>11. Zamba de los humildes&nbsp;</p><p>12. Al silencio&nbsp;</p><p>13. Pajarillo verde</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>With :</p><p><strong>Pierre Perchaud</strong>&nbsp;(cavaquino, bonjo, guitares folk, guitare &eacute;lectrique)</p><p><strong>Nicolas Moreaux&nbsp;</strong>(contrebasse)</p><p><strong>Arthur Alard</strong>&nbsp;(percussions et batterie)</p><p><strong>Bugge Wesseltoft&nbsp;</strong>: Piano (2), Accordion (6)</p><p><strong>Julien Pontvianne</strong>&nbsp;: Tenor saxophone (11)</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Recorded,&nbsp;mixed&nbsp;and mastered&nbsp;by&nbsp;<strong>Tony Paelman&nbsp;</strong>at the<strong>&nbsp;Studio des Bru&egrave;res </strong>in&nbsp;Poitiers.</p><p><img width="100%" alt="" src="https://d3v4jsc54141g1.cloudfront.net/uploads/project_image/image/525025/ArlesIsaBW--1528656186.jpg" /><em>&copy; Isabel Nao</em></p>