Brocante Sonore

Zic Zazou

Company
The Zic Zazou musicians have been touring with the same line-up for the last 30 years. The nine men all play multiple instruments and are inventors of instruments. The music that they produce is full of humour and poetry, in a blend of all styles with especially important influences from jazz, rock, avant-garde, chanson, brass and classical music.

Performance
The setting: a hodgepodge of junk iron, machine parts, tubes, pipes, and other bric-a-brac; a drowsy kind of factory interior in a dusky light, in which nine virtuoso soloists and experimental composers set to work in the style of Chaplin or Tati. Non-stop chords resonate – not a thing escapes the melodic-percussive madness of these sound-workers, who, dressed in their blue overalls manage to tease unforeseen sounds from even the tiniest of nails. Clattering, hissing and scraping, ringing, squeaking and whistling, emphasised by clarinet, saxophone and tuba, swells to a riotous brigade sound. Samba, punk and polka, flamenco with bottles and ping-pong with frying pans in A minor make the hall vibrate, sparks fly and sirens wail while only the factory punch-in clock remains silent.

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Musicians: Michel Berte, Hervé Mabille, Patrice Boinet, Frédéric Obry, Jean-François Hoël, Alain Graine, François Trouillet, Bruno Hic, Pierre Denis
Director: Jean-Marie Maddeddu
Artistic direction: Jean-François Hoël
Stage design: Bertrand Siffritt, Yves Guyard
Lighting: Gilles Robert
Sound: Jean Luc Mallet
Invention of instruments: Alain Graine

When: Nov. 3rd 2012, 10.30 p.m.
Where: Waschhaus Arena, Schiffbauergasse 5
Entrance fee: Price category A
Length: 75 min
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Supported by Institut français

Kindly supported by Waschhaus Potsdam