Laika Fatien - vocal /
Robert Glasper - piano /
David El Malek - sax ténor /
Daryl Hall - doublebass /
Gregory Hutchinson - drums
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2° Album de LAIKA "Misery"
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DOWNBEAT MARCH 2009:
LA FNAC en parle:
La chanteuse et comédienne Laïka Fatien débute sa carrière de lieder en 2004 avec la sortie de son premier album « Look at me now » … Encensé par les médias et plébiscité par le public dès sa parution, « Look at me now » annonce une carrière très prometteuse … C’était sans compter sur la discrétion de cette chanteuse qui aime mûrir les choses et prendre son temps … Résultat, Il nous aura fallu attendre 4 ans et cette année 2008 afin de pouvoir redécouvrir cette magnifique voix, et ce grâce à la sortie de son nouvel album intitulé « Misery », hommage à la légendaire Billie Holiday. Enregistré en février dernier à Paris, Misery bénéficie d’un line up de musiciens exceptionnels liant tradition et modernité afin de porter ce très beau projet. Outre une sélection très personnelle de chansons et des arrangements très originaux, la voix de Laïka nous envoûte par sa sensualité, son ampleur, son sens du texte et de la musique. Avec Misery, C’est une artiste confirmée qui nous revient, une artiste dont le succès ne fait plus aucun doute. Confirmation !
BIO in english:
Born in Paris of an Ivory Coast father and a Moroccan-Spanish mother, Laïka was raised mainly by women (her grandmother, mother, and aunt) in a Moroccan Jewish family. She leans towards her maternal Sephardic culture, open to different styles of music in the Mediterranean. It shouldn't be surprising that Jazz –which finds its universality in the fact of being an adopted language and culture– should have constituted the natural horizon of her curious personality, willing to take a strong stand.
Her schooling (Ariam Ile de France, Cim, IACP) would not give a true picture of her singing : a personal expression founded on authentic living of Jazz. It's not for nothing that she has a close rapport with the likes of Antonio Hart, Roy Hargrove, David Linx… that is, a school of musicians intent on a kind of mirror of the self : to be oneself by using a language established by great predecessors – who are not to be destroyed but respected and repaid with interest. Billie Holiday, Carmen McRae, Shirley Horn, Nina Simone and Abbey Lincoln are Laïka's inspiration, not just models to adopt or discard on a whim. She also made herself known through Claude Bolling's big band. She also has collaborated with Sixun, Julien Lourau, Steve Williams, Antoine Roney, Michael Bowie, David El Malek, Richard Galliano, Toot Thielemans, Robert Glasper, Gregory Hutchinson, Peter Martin, Daryl Hall, Vince Benedetti...
Laïka has also taken to the stage in a different guise, that of theatre, and quite seriously: studies at the ﾉcole du Théâtre de Chaillot with Aziz Kabouch, master classes with Irina Brook at the Cartoucherie, with Philippe Adrien, and Jack Garfein of the Actors' Studio. Her participation in the musical comedy “A Drum is a Woman”, by Orson Welles and Duke Ellington, with Bolling and Jérôme Savary (Palais de Chaillot, 1996) was quite appropiately a synthesis of music and theater.
From then on she has lead a double career as musician/actress: Eva Kaczor's “Oli-Ola”, role of Oli-Ola in 1999; Jean-Luc Jeener's “Peau d'Ane”, at the Théatre du Nord Ouest, role of the fairy in 1999/2000; Xavier Lacouture's “Variations sur un Thème”, role of little prince in 2000; Antoine Campo's “L'Indien en Smoking”, music by Villa-Lobos, at the Conservatoire de Montreuil, role of Yara in 2000; “Los Sobrinos del Capitán Grant”, adapted from Jules Verne, staging by Paco Mir at the Zarzuela Theater, Madrid, role of the Maori's princess in 2001/2002/2003/2004/2006 ; “Tectonics Clouds”, opera/jazz of José Rivera & Laurent Cugny, staging by François Rancillac at the Théâtre de la Ville (Paris), Vienne Jazz Festival, Comédie de Saint Etienne and The Grand Theatre (Nantes) role of Celestina del Sol in 2007, 2009.
She has also played in Claude Lelouch's film Hasards ou Coïncidences.
Yet it is as vocalist and leader of her quintet that her full personal expression soars and affirms itself. When fashion dictates turning our backs on Jazz classics, Laïka would rather make them her own, adding her singular touch: the well-trodden songs she interprets are completely made anew.•
BIO en français:
Née d’un père ivoirien et d’une mère hispano-marocaine à Paris, Laïka a été élevée essentiellement par des femmes (sa grand-mère, sa mère et sa tante) dans une famille juive marocaine. Elle tient à sa culture maternelle séfarade, ouverte sur les musiques méditerranéennes. Il est à la mode de parler de métissage ; parlons plutôt d’une culture assumée, de rencontres abouties. Il n’est peut-être pas étonnant que le jazz — qui trouve son universalité dans le fait d’être un langage et une culture adoptés — ait constitué l’horizon naturel d’une personnalité curieuse et désireuse de tenir un discours fort.
...suite de la bio sur le blog.
NO SOMA en concert ! Vendredi 12
fevrier - 21h au Cithea Nova Entree libre
No Soma,
un gang de 5 cosmonautes qui debarquent munis de leur musique jazz, hiphop,
rock, hybride et joliment alambiquee. Les melodies sont subtiles et
hypnotiques, le mur du son regulierement fracasse a coup de cuivres, de
cymbales et de distorsions. En bref, cherchez pas, ca vient d'ailleurs
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Le CITHEA NOVA 112-114 rue Oberkampf Paris
75011 Metro; Parmentier ou Menilmontant
Just checking in with you my friend and hoping you are well!
A THOUGHT ABOUT ATTITUDE ...
"The longer I live, the more I realize the impact of ATTITUDE on life.
Attitude, to me is more important than facts. It is more important than the past, than education, than money, than circumstances, than failures, than successes, than what other people think or say or do.
It is more important than appearance, giftedness or skill. It will make or break a company ...a church ...a home.
The remarkable thing is WE HAVE A CHOICE EVERYDAY regarding the attitude we will embrace for that day. We cannot change our past ...we cannot change the fact that people will act in a certain way.
We cannot change the inevitable. The only thing we can do is play on the ONE STRING we have, and that is our ATTITUDE ...I am convinced that life is 10% what happens to me and 90% how I react to it. And so it is with you... WE ARE IN CHARGE OF OUR ATTITUDE."
ATTITUDE IS EVERYTHING ... MAKE YOURS POSITIVE!
THANK YOU FOR YOUR FRIENDSHIP AND YOUR MANY KIND WORDS!
Please stay in touch from time to time and let me know how you are!
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"Un poil de pub" Vendredi 15 concert à la Caravelle 34 quai du vieux port 'côté mairie'. Trio avec Sibonguilé Mbambo: chant percussions, Jeremy demaesmaker: saxophones percussions et Hassan Tighidet: guitare, percussions. Viendez tous!
Dear colleague Laika, how are you? Thanks for your friendship on myspace, happy Xmas and all the best for 2010. An embrace from Rome....Nino. Peace and love!!
