Laurence Revey

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Laurence Revey (2009)

Laurence Revey is a Swiss music producer, composer, singer and author. with a vocal range of almost four octaves, up to the two-stroke F sharp.

Life

Born in Switzerland, she trained as an actor with Philippe Brigaud and Claude Matthieu in Paris. She attended courses at the Actors Studio at the American Center in Paris. She then studied opera in Geneva and classical singing at the Conservatoire de Lausanne. The contact with African musicians aroused her interest in dialects and dialects, which she later added to her repertoire alongside French and English. First solo appearances as a singer in bars followed.

Projects

She recorded her first demo CD in London with the support of English producer Pete Brown . The Englishman Chris Birkett put together her first album with her. She recorded an album with producer Hector Zazou . In a next step she engaged musicians from the Northern European electro jazz scene for an electronic version of the project: Nils Petter Molvear (ECM), Bugge Wesseltoft, the London collective Transglobal Underground (Natacha Atlas), the Swiss double bass player Mich Gerber and the Icelandic Gus Gus.

She appeared in various functions in international stage shows and received the special prize presented by the international jury of the Paléo Festival , followed by her “Solo in Silence”, a performance for solo voice and live sampling . The Montreux Jazz Festival invited them to “Laurence Revey & Friends”. Laurence Revey then went to the USA, where she was inspired by the New York underground scene, especially Arto Lindsay , for his own compositions and texts, and then traveled to Iceland, where she worked with the Icelandic producers Bardi Johannsson and Valgeir Sigurdsson recorded the album "Laurence Revey".

She then recorded the title IMMORTAL, for which Chris Elliot composed the arrangements for the strings. IMMORTAL is the theme song to Richard Berry's 22 Bullets , an action film with Jean Reno in the lead role. 2013 Laurence Revey played her album (Tribal-Rock) Opus 1 / Origins: "Alpine Blues / Le Blues des Alpages" in London with Mike Pela

In 2016 “Alpine Blues / Le Blues des Alpages” was released in Switzerland. The CD includes the book: "Le Blues des Alpages & Alpine Blues" (Editions d'en Bas). In it, the author reports on her influences, the origins of her music and the artistic collaborations of the first few years. The English copywriter and poet Pete Brown , the dialect author Joël Nendaz , the Swiss writer Pedro Lenz and the Icelandic author Andri Snær Magnason were involved in the project.

Numerous titles of the singer have been selected for international compilations, in addition to songs by Daniel Lanois, Talvin Singh, Lamb, Miriam Makeba, Goldfrap, Cesaria Evora, Sigur Rós, Angelique Kidjo, Ute Lemper, Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan and others. v. a.

Discography

  • 1997 - "Derrière le Miroir" (Mirror) - (with Chris Birkett)
  • 2000 - "Le Cliot di Tsérafouin" - (The Fairy Hollow) - (with Hector Zazou, Gabriel Yacoub)
  • 2001 - "Le Creux des Fées / The Remixes" (with Nils Petter Molvear, Gus Gus, Mich Gerber, Bugge Wesseltoft, Transglobal Underground)
  • 2008 - "Laurence Revey" (with Arto Lindsay, Tony Levin, Bardi Johannsson, Valgeir Sigurdsson, Huun Huur Tu)
  • 2010 - "L'Immortel / 22 Bullets" - (Soundtrack) - (with Pete Davis, Chris Elliot, Gerry Leonard)
  • 2016 - Opus 1 / Origins "Alpine Blues / Le Blues des Alpages" (with Mike Pela, Tony Levin, Gerry Leonard, Pete Davis, David Rhodes, Hamid Mantu, Kenneth Kapstad)

Compilations

  • 2000 - One Voice - World Music Network (UK)
  • 2001 - Corso Como "Ying / Yang" Talvin Singh - Afro Celt Sound System ...
  • 2002 - Alps Music Rough Guide - World Music Network (UK)
  • 2003 - Strictly Mundial Compilation (Germany)
  • 2004 - Corso Como "North / South" Lamb - Mari Boine - Lisa Gerrard ...
  • 2005 - Nu Jazz Vol 4 (Austria)
  • 2006 - Off the Beaten Track - World Music Network (UK)
  • 2006 - Uzakataki Yakin - The Distant Near (Turkey) Miriam Makeba - Angelique Kidjo ...
  • 2007 - Fabricantes de Ideas en Europe (Spain) Ute Lemper - Kimmo Pohjonen…
  • 2007 - Corso Como "Il Sacro / Il Profano" Daniel Lanois - Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan ...
  • 2008 - Corso Como "Mare Nostrum" (Italy)
  • 2008 - Les Divas de la World - Cesaria Evora, Noa ...
  • 2009 - Sound Trip Iceland (Germany) Sigur Ròs…
  • 2010 - Corso Como "The Best of 10 Corso Como" Lamb, Cassandra Willson, Talvin Singh ...

Movie

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  • 2005 - "Au Sud des Nuages" - soundtrack
  • 2005 - "Snow White" soundtrack
  • 2010 - "L'Immortel / 22 Bullets" - soundtrack

theatre

  • 1995 - "Promotion Michel Piccoli", Bouffes du Nord
  • 2002 - “L'Ë é le Fouà”, production by the Théâtre de Vidy
  • 2006 - “Les Bacchantes”, Teatro Malandro - choir director

Publications

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  • 2011 - “ Langue et culture  : les patois valaisans” by Laure Grüner in: Le Cahier II , Swiss Academy of Humanities and Social Sciences, edited by Andres Kristol.
  • 2012 - “Cippe à Corinna Bille”, inFolio, Etudes Littéraires, Le Cippe.
  • 2016 - “Le Blues des Alpages / Alpine Blues”, Editions d'En-bas.

Awards - appearances at official celebrations

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  • 1995 - Special prize of the international jury of the Paléo Festival.
  • 1998 - Suisa Music Foundation Prize.
  • 1999 - Prix de la Création, Pro Helvetia.
  • 1999 - Monte Carlo TV Festival
  • 2002 - United Nations Palace, Geneva.
  • 2002 - Closing ceremony of the Swiss National Exhibition.
  • 2006 - Swiss contribution to the Olympic Winter Games in Turin.
  • 2006 - Forum Barcelona (Spain).
  • 2007 - Loterie Romande (Lausanne) 70th anniversary.
  • 1998–2014 Distribution and Works Committee of SUISA - (Swiss Association of Authors).
  • 2015 - Expo Milano 2015. 

Web links

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  1. ↑ Anja Barckhausen: Hypnotizing Rhythms . Nürnberger Nachrichten, Nuremberg 2013.
  2. ↑ Le Nouvelliste: Laurence Revey retourne à la source. www.lenouvelliste.ch, archived from the original ; accessed on March 27, 2017 .
  3. ^ Joao Pimentel: O grande varejo da cultura independente mundial . O Globo, Brasil 2003.
  4. ↑ Christophe Schenk: La fée prend son envol en Islande . L'Hebdo, Lausanne 2006, p. 109 .
  5. ↑ ekide100: Laurence Revey - Immortal. Retrieved June 20, 2010 .
  6. ↑ Bruno Pfeiffler: Le blues des alpages . Marianne, Paris 2002.
  7. ↑ Edition en-bas: Le blouse des alpages et alpines blues. D'en bas, accessed November 20, 2016 .
personal data
SURNAME Revey, Laurence
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss singer and composer
DATE OF BIRTH 20th century