Annick Nozati

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Annick Nozati (born January 15, 1945 in Paris ; † July 7, 2000 ) was a French improvisation vocalist .

Live and act

Nozati began her professional life as an actress in experimental theaters. Then came an invitation from Jacques Lasry to take part in a chime “Structures Sonores Baschet”, which - through the experience of such a break in vocal improvisation music - prompted her to begin working in music. She was interested in a variety of related areas: for contemporary and new music (she worked in particular with Georges Aperghis , whose works she interpreted for contemporary music theater, and Jean-Yves Bosseur), for poetry and sound poetry , visual arts , Dance and musical theater (she collaborated with Jorge Lavelli, René de Obaldia, Antoine Vitez, among others).

At the end of the 1960s she came into contact with the world of jazz , which resulted in numerous contacts: She worked with Gérard Marais (she played a role in his jazz opera “La Baraque Rouge” in particular), with Ambrose Jackson, Didier Levallet , the Art Ensemble of Chicago , Yochk'o Seffer and Steve Potts . In 1975 she decided to give up the profession of actress in order to devote herself entirely to improvisational singing. In 1979 she founded a duo with the French bassist Joëlle Léandre , which three years later expanded to include the Swiss pianist Irène Schweizer to form the trio Urban Sax .

She turned to musicology and music therapy and taught herself by participating in workshops and formations. Nozati's solo recordings also contain good examples of her improvisations with the sound sculptures of her first mentor Baschet. In 1983 she and Joëlle Léandre expanded the original Feminist Improvising Group to form the European Women Improvising Group (EWIG). Throughout her career she has worked closely with numerous top musicians of avant-garde jazz : occasionally (with Lol Coxhill , Philippe Deschepper , Barre Phillips , Yves Robert , Maggie Nicols , Beñat Achiary , Workshop de Lyon , Phil Minton , Peter Kowald and the Portuguese violinist Carlos Zingaro ) but also regularly (in a trio with Fred Van Hove , with whom she had already worked together since a legendary joint festival appearance in 1984, and the trombonist Hannes Bauer , with the French wind player Daunik Lazro in 1993 and in the same year in a quartet with Michel Godard , Gérard Marais and Jacques Mahieux ). She also appeared in contemporary music theater as an interpreter of the works of Georges Aperghis .

Nozati was also a painter - she saw her music as being particularly inspired by painting - and she taught vocal improvisation at various teaching establishments, including the French University of Lille .

Bad Alchemy highlights their "original voice acrobatics". Eugene Chadbourne recognized Nozati in the All Music Guide as follows: “... The music they began to make together (Van Hove and Nozati 1984) was both completely traditional and completely outside of musical traditions. ... (Even decades later) Nozati's singing style was based on a total presentation of her personality, including some aspects of the theater, which of course, due to her experience as an actress, could flow into the musical processes. Her vocal work tended to be completely spontaneous. ”And Fred Van Hove characterized her sovereignty within his nonet, in which she played for several years, with the words“ She was not afraid of the eight blaring men around her - she spoke Power word; she was the figurehead of the group. "

Selection discography

  • Annick Nozati (Comédia) 1983 - In and Out Records (solo voice, improvisation and composition: Annick Nozati, recording: Daniel Deshays)
  • Les Douze Sons (CD by J. Léandre) 1983 - Nato Records
  • Ok 1984, on Six Sequences pour Alfred Hitchcock - Nato Records
  • Uit (with F. van Hove) 1986 - Nato Records
  • Full Moon and Empty Head (with I. Schweizer) 1992, on Canaille '91 - Festival for Improvised Music
  • Organo Pleno (with F. Van Hove and J. Bauer) 1992 - FMP
  • Nuage en voyage (with I. Schweizer) 1993, on As You Like It - Festival 1991-1994 Vol. 1 - Zoo Records
  • Suite for B ... City (at t'Nonet Fred Van Hove) 1996 - FMP
  • La Peau des Anges 1997 - Vand'Oeuvre / Victo Records

literature

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  1. ↑ This is a multimedia sound art that the brothers Bernard and François Baschet developed in 1952 together with Teddy Lasry as a combination of acoustic and visual art and in which sounds are generated on plastic, which attracted musicians from the experimental scene from all over Europe - see pictures
  2. ↑ Bad Alchemy 51 (PDF; 3.9 MB)
  3. ↑ “... the music they (van Hove and Nozati in 1984) began making together was at once totally traditional and completely outside musical traditions. (...) The Nozati singing style was based on a total presentation of her personality, including some aspects of theater that naturally filtered into the proceedings through her activities as an actress. Her vocal creations tended to be completely spontaneous ”. Eugene Chadbourne, All Music Guide https://www.allmusic.com/artist/mn0001292219 and also http://www.cmt.com/artists/az/nozati_annick/bio.jhtml
  4. ↑ "She was not afraid of the eight blaring men around her, she put her foot down, she was the signboard of the group." Quoted from: Eugene Chadbourne, ibid

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personal data
SURNAME Nozati, Annick
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French singer and improvisation vocalist
DATE OF BIRTH January 15, 1945
PLACE OF BIRTH Paris
DATE OF DEATH July 7, 2000