Tamia Valmont

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Tamia Valmont , mostly known as Tamia (born July 29, 1947 ) is a French singer and dancer who has emerged primarily in the field of new improvisation music and who makes use of shamanic vowel patterns.

Career

Tamia appeared in 1972 at the Châteauvallon Jazz Festival with the unit of Michel Portal and became known through the live recording of the concert, the album À Chateauvallon - No, No But It May Be . As a result, she performed as a soloist and also used the multi-track technique, around 1980 at the Paris Festival d'Automne . She performed at the Tokyo Festival at the invitation of Toru Takemitsu .

As Tamia, she went on a European tour with Joe McPhee ( Topology , 1981). Between 1983 and 1992 she released three records with Pierre Favre . She toured the United States with him in 1985. In the same year she performed at the Rumori Mediterranei Festival with the Musica Munta Orchestra , which also included Gianluigi Trovesi , Lindsay Cooper and Paul Rutherford as well as the singers Lauren Newton , Lucilla Galeazzi and Norma Winstone ( Annìnnìa , 1986). Some of her songs have also been remixed by Amon Tobin .

Valmont taught vocal techniques at the Center d'informations musicales in Paris . Nancy Huston was inspired by her to the main character of her novella Fault Lines .

Discography

Solo albums

  • Solo (1978, T Records)
  • Senza Tempo (1981, T Records)
  • Les chants de la Terre (1999, Universal Music)

Albums with Pierre Favre

  • Blues for Pedro Arcanjo , (1983, T Records-Gemini)
  • De la Nuit ... le jour (1988, ECM )
  • Solitudes (1992, ECM)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Maxwell Steer Music and Mysticism 1997, p. 86
  2. ^ Leonard Feather , Ira Gitler : The Biographical Encyclopedia of Jazz. Oxford University Press, New York 2007, ISBN 978-0-19-532000-8 , p. 221.
  3. ↑ Tamia, 'Les chants de la terre' (1999, Octopus)
  4. ^ N. Huston Fault Lines , Kindle Edition 2008, Author's Note
personal data
SURNAME Valmont, Tamia
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Tamia
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French singer (also dancer)
DATE OF BIRTH July 29, 1947