Titled Mazel Tov!, leap from universal meaning and good wishes, here is the second CD signed by LES NUAGES ENSEMBLE, new precious goal of a journey through the varied and tortuous paths of the klezmer music. Thirteen tracks that confirm the maturity of the project, in its approach made of rigor and simplicity, technical skill and courage. Mazel Tov! includes a compendium of songs inspired by the Ashkenazi musical tradition, but allows evasion in other territories, always respecting philologically the assumption of wandering music. The four musicians offer their own version of klezmer music, combining female taste, passion and the research for the original arrangements that now characterize their style
Mazel Tov!, leap from universal meaning and good wishes, is the second CD signed by LES NUAGES ENSEMBLE, new precious goal of a journey through the varied and tortuous paths of klezmer music. Thirteen tracks that confirm the maturity of the project, in its approach to the genre made of rigor and simplicity, technical skill and courage.
Mazel Tov! includes a compendium of songs inspired by the Ashkenazi musical tradition, but also allows evasion in other territories, respecting philologically the assumption of wandering music.
The four musicians, after eight years in this genre, offer their own version of klezmer music combining female taste, passion, and research for original arrangements that now characterize their style. Thirteen tracks that confirm the maturity of the project, in its approach made of rigor and simplicity, technical skill and courage.
Precious interventions of singing voices and narrative. OXANA MOCHENET becomes the protagonist in some Yiddish songs, coloring the songs with the warm tones of her gentle but firm voice. EUGENIO ALLEGRI, theater actor well known in the Italian theater scene, with almost provocative accents can make visible an ideal setting, and tells an excerpt from the Canticle of the Creatures. An intriguing album, seductive and unusual. Almost a reflection of the character and peculiarities of the female quartet from Turin.
LES NUAGES ENSEMBLE was born in Turin in 2007 by four musicians from different paths career. After obtaining a diploma in Conservatory, they lived musical experiences in the landscape of Irish folk, Scottish and Swedish, in ethno-world music as well as classical and orchestral ensembles.
Fundamental, for LES NUAGES ENSEMBLE, were the studies at the Conservatoire Charles Munch in Paris, where they took part in a klezmer music specialization course, after which they matured the decision to create a group of women only in order to increase the presence of women in a musical field still frequented almost exclusively by men.
Passionate in captivating, engaging and characteristics of klezmer music melodies, LES NUAGES ENSEMBLE wish to contribute to enhancing the dissemination of this kind, relatively little known in Italy.
The goal was to unite the musical skills arising from a classical education to the practice of a kind based on a tradition mainly popular, with the intention to deepen the study of the history, the spirit and the Jewish culture.
During their journey they played in very different contexts of particular prestige (billboards of world music, classical music, jazz, theater festivals in Italy and abroad, contexts promoted by Jewish Communities). Also significant collaborations in reading and theater performances. In 2011 they released their first CD Appartenenze followed now by Mazel Tov! for the label Felmay.