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• • • • • The GROTORKèSTRE • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • |
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ri | • was formed in march’ 94 following a huge desire... • It is great music with little music • and excites like no other ... • It is the story of a bloke made whole with his music, • It’s the story of thirty musicians with theirs ... • It’s the story of thirty musicians with theirs ... • " When he leaves alone on my sad pavement, I felt a great emptiness in my ear... " • The virtualities of this music are quite breathtaking • even unreasonable... • Plenty of undescritable lightening, • this expressionist breath impresses us... • The music swells out, • The image becomes rainbow-coloured, • The song is born, • and time is dislocated until the ultimate note so feared... THE GROTORKèSTRE IS SUPPORTED BY ... -Le Fond Social Européen -Le Ministère de l’Emploi et de la Solidarité -La Drac Rhône-Alpes -Le Conseil Général de la Drôme -La Ville de Livron sur Drôme -Le Fond de Soutien aux Variétés • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • |
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Contents:
• The music of the Grotorkèstre • is entirely original. • The Grotorkèstre and the Grototobus. • SOME DATES... • WHAT THE PRESS SAYS... • I - TECHNICAL CONDITIONS • II - FINANCIAL CONDITIONS THE DOCUMENT AS BEEN MADE THANKS TO ... Photography P. Petiot / S. Ramadier. Translation M. Buxton. Design: artventures_designstudio Ulrike Verena Heuter SITES OF GROTORKèSTRE... http://le.grotorkestre.free.fr http://www.legrotorkestre.com |
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ri | The music of the Grotorkèstre is entirely original. Etienne Roche directs and composes for a group of thirty musicians. - a rhythmic section : guitar, double bass, tuba, soubassophone, two drums and percussion - all the family of saxophones. - trompets et trombones. - vibraphone, violin, accordion, clarinets,flute et bassoon. - kora et traditional occidental oboe. The Grotorkèstre as recorded a live album in Saint-Gaudens in May 97; a seconde, soon. The Grotorkèstre and the Grototobus. The Grotorkèstre moves by the Grototobus. When the good weather comes by, the Grotorkèstre adds a gallery to its Grototobus which once unfolded endows it with a stage and scenary. The orchestra instals the sound and lighting system and does its sound check. Thanks to this formula of spectacular suppleness, the Grotorkèstre can play in a public square, a beach or ad hoc events. The organiser must provide a space with fixed boundaries and acces to sufficient electrical power. • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • SOME DATES... 1994 March: First rehearsal of the GROTORKèSTRE 1995 5 th August: First part of concert of H.Salvador - Crest Jazz Vocal 23 - 26 August: Aurillac Street Festival 1 th October: Festival " Rêves de rue " - Suresne 1996 12 th April: Train Théâtre - Portes les Valence 7/8 September: 25ème anniversary of FooßbarnThéâtre 1997 28/29 March: Villeurbanne 09 - 11 May: Festival "Intérieur Rue" of Montreuil 15 th May: "Les Fuites du Jazz" of Saint-Gaudens Live recording of the album. 28 th June: Festival "Les Pascalines" - Clermont-Ferrand 04/05 July: Festival "La Saint-Gaudingue" - Saint-Gaudens 1998 16/18 April: Bourges Spring - Festival Fringe 24 th April: CCO - Villeurbanne 30 th April: Train Théâtre - Portes lès Valence 3 th October: International Jazz Festival of Rive de Gier 1999 6 th June: Festival “Fort en Jazz” - Francheville 1 th July: Vienne Jazz Festival 17 th July: “Les Nuits de l’Enclave” (Valréas) 27 - 01 August: Tour in Savoie with the Grototobus 17/18 Sept: Opening of the “Vélo-Théatre” (Apt) 19 th October: Valence theatre - National Stage 2000 20 th April: Concert at the farm - Chabrillan 11/12 June: “Moers Festival” - Germany -International Jazz Festival . 22 th July: “Les Noctibules” - Annecy 16 th Sept: Münster - Germany. • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • WHAT THE PRESS SAYS... Festival Crest Jazz Vocal - Dauphiné Libéré, 8th August 1995 "What temperament that this inclassable music, of incredible modernity (...) It contains for you some little airs from popular balls. It is a music where jazz and java make friends, where there is an African party and salsa from the surburbs. (...) The warm sonorites of the brassy music with an omnipresent rhythmic section from where sometimes escapes the twinkling of a xylophone, the nostalgia of an accordion or the far back call of a saxophone. With a infinite tenderness where humour is never very far away, Étienne Roche directs his music with dynamic physical energy(...) The music knows what to say today. It has a force and an authenticity which pushes you to admiration. " Jazz magazine - P.-H. Ardonceau - Déc. 1997 "Etienne Roche is a rabelaisian character... The music hits hard in every kind of music... It is an incredible melting pot where caribean music, hard-bop, operetta, pop-music, brass street bands and shattering free jazz jostle. Untruly simple melodies which immediately hook, the listener... Popular airs. Knowing riffs. Sensual violin . “ Festival des Fuites de Jazz - St-Gaudens - Dépêche du Midi, 17 Mai 1997. "Crazy. Suprising. Generous. Inventive. Almost gluttonous. It is necessary to see the effort they are putting into their instruments as if they are playing the last piece of their life. You must see how they are enjoying themselves to understand that the starting point of their quality is their complicity. Briefly, the Grotorkestre is phenomenal. " Libération - Marco Jéru - Octobre 1999. “No less than 30 musicians shining under the baton of Etienne Roche, forming together a mult-vitamined creature with multiple accents delivered in a deluge of incredible sounds.(...)Brass instruments are great conductors to circulate energy. (...) This phenomena para musical can be consummed in concert and without moderation. • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • I - TECHNICAL CONDITIONS In concert, the Grotorkèstre is made up of thirty musicians, accompagned by a general manager, a sound engineer and two drivers. The time taken for installation and sound check = 4 hours. For the stage equipments, two possibilities are open to you : *Stage, sound and lighting are at your expense ( Technical forms available) ........................or....................... * The Grototobus concept, see below. II - FINANCIAL CONDITIONS The prices indicated below are the net prices and include all the social charges. Concert price: 42 000 francs all inclusive. Travel expenses: 18 francs all inclusive for km return between Grillon (Nord Vaucluse) and the place of the concert. Catering and meals for 36 people Sleeping accomodation according to the place and houre of the concert. Cost of the concept GROTOTOBUS: 10 000 francs all inclusive. The concept includes a stage, the sound system (except the speakers in front wich are to be decided upon according to the concert and the lighting. At your expense there remains the cost of a limit space, the necessary electricity supply and the security. (plan and technical forms) Other expenses : The rights of the composer are your expense and are to be declared directly to the SACEM. SEASON 2000 • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • |
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