In 2018

I will have the pleasure to present Aria Primitiva Trio in concert
and with an album at Booster / wtpl-music.

Line up

Nadia Ratsimandresy - Ondes Martenot - Keyboards - Sampler
Cécile Thévenot - Keyboards - Sampler
Thierry Zaboitzeff - Bass guitar - Electric cello - Vocals - Sampler

The concert pianist Cécile Thevenot performs hers and Thierry Zaboitzeffs compositions at the grand piano.

Five female dancers - bodies in concert - enter the stage, creating a physical dialogue with the pianist's performance, thus embodying and externalising the interior sounds and texture of the music. 

Fantastical lemur-like creatures - distorted, constricted and oppressed - invade the concert pianist’s perfect harmonic world, so that even the artificially encapsulated world of high culture, where the pursuit of perfection doesn’t leave any room for doubts, cannot escape from the tension of everyday cares and worries. Nightmarish realities and fears, but also a shadow of the desire for freedom, appear as incarnated thoughts and feelings. The five dancers’ moving bodies - sometimes individually, sometimes in pairs, sometimes a seemingly inextricable agglomeration of extremities - constitute and articulate the physicality and motivations of strange, otherwordly creatures. Are they the pianist’s alter egos or dark suppressed aspects of her soul? While she is playing, these beings become her fellow antagonists and collaborators. They are suffused by the dense, mighty live music and then are driven or tortured, hunted or released, by the sounds around them. They resist – and they react. 

A project of Gérard Hourbette and Thierry Zaboitzeff
Art Zoyd + guests

" The idea is to show that this music written in the late seventies/early eighties to the present can be part of our repertoire and be played again whenever the fancy takes us, by new musicians or with new arrangements, that may be spectacular or imaginative. It is a recital, more or less chronological, of the pieces that are considered as our reference or "cult" pieces (our records or CDs are still sold, talked about or reissued 20 or 40 years on). The concert will therefore only include pieces from Art Zoyd's repertoire, from Symphonie pour le jour où brûleront les cités (Symphony for the Day Cities Will Burn) to The Fall of the House of Usher, including Nosferatu, Berlin, Marathonnerre, Phase IV and so on. "

Serge Bertocchi : saxophones
Romuald Cabardos : percussion, pads
Daniel Denis : percussion, pads
Cécile Thévenot : Keyboards
Gérard Hourbette : samplers
Daniel Koskowitz : percussion, pads
Michael Nick : violin
Nadia Ratsimandresy : keyboards
Jean-Pierre Soarez : trumpet
Thierry Zaboitzeff : bass, cello, voices
Sylvie Debare : Technical direction, lights
Pierre Sampagnay : sound
Tim Buquet  : backline

2016 Feb. 26 Traunstein - Germany
Chiemgau Theater

Co-composer and multi-instrumentalist for the Art Zoyd Birthday Concert (45th anniversary), live at the Rock In Opposition Festival 2015; a project of Gérard Hourbette and Thierry Zaboitzeff: Art Zoyd + guests

Serge Bertocchi : saxophones
Romuald Cabardos : percussiond, pads
Daniel Denis : percussions, pads
Cécile Thévenot : keyboards
Gérard Hourbette : samplers
Daniel Koskowitz : percussions, pads
Michael Nick : violin
Nadia Ratsimandresy : keyboards
Jean-Pierre Soarez : trumpet
Thierry Zaboitzeff : bass, cello, voice

Sylvie Debare : Technical direction, lights
Pierre Sampagnay : sound
Tim Buquet : backline