« Naïssam Jalal et Yann Pittard relient traditions orientales, classique, jazz et électro, en tirant de paisibles mais entrainantes arabesques taillées dans l’impro ». (LYLO, n°286)
le nouvel album de NOUN YA
Aux Résistances
est disponible chez les disquaires et libraires indépendants:
Al kindi - Paris (05è)
Ishtar - Paris (05è)
le calife de belleville - Paris (10è)
l'invit à lire - Paris (10è)
le silence de la rue - Paris (11è)
souffle continu - Paris (11è)
le dépôt - Paris (11è)
le merle moqueur du 104 - Paris (19è)
le merle moqueur - Paris (20è)
monte en l'air - Paris (20è)
envie de lire - Ivry (94)
folie d'encre - Montreuil (93)
downtown music gallery - New York
Naïssam and Yann independently freed themselves from their formal classical training and went searching for different types of music. While she was discovering the joy of brass band in Mali, or studying nay at the Arabic Music Institute of Damascus, he was discovering the dotara (bengali mandoline) in India. Then, with plenty of music in their baggage, they met one day in 2004. Together they played, improvised, composed and then … traveled.
The duo NOUN YA was born out of their strangely mixed notes. She made him discover the smell of chicha, he made her discover the taste of milk that came straight from the cow. They have since played on all types of stages and all sorts of places from Paris to Bamako, Egypt to Mexico, Japan to Lebanon.
Sensuous and bewitching, ethereal and velvety,
The electro-acoustic compositions of NOUN YA are the result of an encounter between oriental traditional music, classical music, modern music and jazz. On stage, they improvise with magic, giving the illusion that they are more than two. Their energy is generous, the emotion they create is complete. Their repertory is the expression of their freedom.
Naïssam Jalal and Yann Pittard's biographies
* Naïssam’s biography
Naïssam Jalal was born to syrian parents in Paris in 1984. Aged of 6 years old, she entered the conservatory to study classical flute. At the age of 18 Naissam left the conservatory after discovering improvisation. This was followed by a tour in Mali with the funky brass band Tarace Boulba. At 19, she decided to leave France and go to Syria in search of her origins. After some time studying nay (classical arabic flute) at the Institute of Arabic Music in Damascus, she settled in Cairo for the next three years. There she met Fathi Salama with whom she played regularly in the most prestigious theatres. Later she participated in the creation of the group El Dor El Awal with whom she recorded two albums. She played all kinds of music with all kinds of musicians and developed a very particular sound between east and west. In 2006 she recorded the album Bakash with Miles Jay and Colter Frazier witch is distributed in all Middle East, France and United States. Since her return to France, she performs with the lebanese rapper Rayess Bek, in France, Germany and Marocco… In march 2008, she performed in the New Oriental Sounds Festival in Beyrouth with many artists from Lebanon, Egypt and Palestine and in july of the same year she participated in the Malta’s Arts Festival with the egyptian oud player Hazem Chahine.
* Yann's biography
Yann Pittard is a musician from Bretagne, born in 1983. He began to play the guitar in 1993, and performed many concerts very young with his own bands. He discovered improvisation at Uzeste Musical Festival and played with Marc Perrone and André Minvielle. In 2000 he's been the laureat of Vannes Jazz Festival with the blues-band "Sultans of strings". He moved to Paris to study music at the C.I.M., and then, he decided to go to India to discover bengali traditional music with "Baul" virtuoso Nimai Chan Baul (dotara, voice). Back to France, He entered the Conservatory of Paris (jazz & classical orchestration...) and got his Diplom of Harmony with Bernard Maury. In 2004, he spended time in Cairo to learn the oud (arabian lute) and egyptian classical music with Hazem Chahine and Abdu Dagher.
Inspired by music without borders, he has developed some original orchestral techniques & has collaborated extensively with Rayess Bek as well as composing original musics for films (Cousteau...) and performing with several bands (Paban das Baul group with Cheick Tidiane-Seick & Marque Gilmore , collective NoVisa featuring Malik Mezzadri or collaborating with celtic Plantec brothers, Ky with Maki Nakano...) from Mexico to Tokyo via Casablanca, Cairo & Calcutta.
Le duo NOUN YA expérimente des dégradés sonores de bleus et d'oranges.
Leur univers musical mélange des couleurs de la grande mosquée de Damas à celles d'une tempête à la pointe du Morbihan...
Un duo multiple,
Chacun de leur côté, Naïssam et Yann se sont affranchis d’une très solide formation classique en allant voir ailleurs s’ils y étaient. Tandis qu’elle goûtait aux joies de la fanfare au Mali ou qu’elle fréquentait le grand institut de musique arabe de Damas, il découvrait la dotara (mandoline bengali) en Inde. Des sons pleins leurs valises, ils se sont retrouvés un jour de 2004. Ensemble, ils ont joué, improvisé, composé, et puis…. voyagé.
Le duo NOUN YA est né de toutes leurs notes étrangements mélées. Elle lui a fait découvrir l’odeur de la chicha, il lui a donné le goût du lait tout juste sorti de la vache. Depuis ils ont joué sur toutes sortes de scènes, dans toutes sortes d’endroits, de Paris à Bamako, de l’Egypte au Mexique, du Japon au Liban.
Sensuelles et envoûtantes, aériennes et veloutées,
Les compositions electro-accoustiques de NOUN YA sont le résultat d’une rencontre entre les musiques traditionnelles orientales, la musique classique, moderne et le jazz…
Sur scène, ils manient avec magie des effets et samples en temps réel, donnant l’illusion d’être plus que deux. Leur énergie est généreuse, l’émotion qu’ils sucitent entière. Leur répertoire est l’expression de leur liberté.
Since 2004, Naïssam JALAL & Yann PITTARD perform together their new musical experience from Extreme-East to Extreme-West (Cairo, Paris, Beyrouth, festival Jazz à Vannes...).
They've developed some original orchestration's technic : they're only TWO but you can hear more (sometimes playing oud like a percussion, singing and blowing at the same time, with live loops...). There's NO synthetiser and NO pre-recorded samples, just live performing...
تحرر كل من نَيْسَم ويان، من التكوين الكلاسيكي المتين: بينما كانت هي تتذوق "الأفروبيت" في مالي أو تتردد إلى المعهد العالي للموسيقى العربية في دمشق، اكتشف هو الدوتارا(الماندولين البنغالية) في الهند، وقد التقيا في يوم من أيام سنة 2004، وملء حقائبهما الألحان. عزفا معاً، وارتجلا، وألّفا ومن ثم... سافرا.
ولد الثنائي نون ياء من كل هذه النوطات الممزوجة بشكل غريب، ومنذئذ عزفا في اليابان ولبنان ومصر والمكسيك وفرنسا ومالي.
إن مؤلفات نون-ياء الموسيقية "الكترواكوستيك (الكهروسمعية) التي تمتاز بالإحساس العالي الجاذبية. هي حصيلة تلاقي موسيقى تقليدية شرقية، وموسيقى كلاسيكية، وأخرى حديثة بالإضافة إلى الجاز... هما يتعاملان بصورة ساحرة على المسرح، مع مؤثرات و(نماذج) في الزمن الفعلي، موحيين بأنهما أكثر من عازفين اثنين. طاقتهما غامرة، والانفعال الذي يثيرانه كلي، ويعبر جدول أعمالهما عما لديهما من حرية.
Hello Naisam , I miss you very much , Happy to fined you here on myspace, Very beautiful music ,very interesting . we'll keep in touch , Love & peace , Raja .
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