PRESS PACK 41St EDITION of TRANS MUSICALES TRANS MUSICALES 2019 CONTENTS

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PRESS PACK 41st EDITION OF TRANS MUSICALES TRANS MUSICALES 2019 CONTENTS

PAGE 3 THIS YEAR’S TRENDS

PAGE 4 KEY FIGURES FOR THE 41ST TRANS

PAGE 5 GLOBAL SOUNDS

PAGE 6 SCHEDULE

PAGE 7 CREATIVITY AT L’AIRE LIBRE

PAGE 8 EDEN TOUR

PAGE 9 DANCE AT TRANS

PAGE 10 TRANS THROUGHOUT THE COUNTRY 10 Trans on Tour

PAGE 11 PROGRAMME

© Philippe Remond PAGE 12 HISTOIRES PROJECT PAGE 13 TRANS INTERNATIONALLY his festival edition is dedicated to Philippe Pascal, an artist who we’ve had the PAGE 14 CONTACT INFO Tpleasure to welcome several times at Trans Musicales. He first played at the festival’s inaugural PAGE 15 ARTIST INDEX edition in 1979 alongside Marquis de Sade, then PAGE 17 THE ARTISTS again in 1987 and 1988 with Marc Seberg, and in 1993 as part of the duo Philippe Pascale. In 1998, PAGE 28 PARTNERS Philippe played a solo show for the festival’s 20th anniversary, and again in 2003 accompanied by © Eric Vivier Blue Train Choir. 2 TRANS MUSICALES 2019 THIS YEAR'S TRENDS

e’ve often thought that globalisation would lead to the emergence of uniformity in music. But globalisation is Walso about people travelling, meeting and exchanging EXPLORE THE LINE-UP with others, and bringing back with them a suitcase full of snippets AT THESE EVENTS of cultures, languages and music. Wherever they go, they create and enhance originality just that little bit more, which in turn can become › CONFERENCES - that something extra special which connects audiences when played live on stage. CONCERTS RENNES – Les Champs Libres This year’s line-up features artists from more than 48 countries › THE MANY FACES OF MUSIC IN performing in around 20 different languages. While these figures are AFRICA TODAY important (and without a doubt a new record for the festival), they Conference: Jérôme Rousseaux Concert: Continuadores certainly don’t summarise all the ethnic and regional Host: Pascal Bussy et Jérôme Rousseaux realities which ID papers and administrative border From a musical genre and aesthetic point of view, there’s definitely a strong groovy FRI 6 DEC | 2PM-4PM issues will never be able to recount. undercurrent in this year’s line-up, coming from jazz, R&B, soul and funk sounds. › THE CONDITIONS FOR MUSICAL Hip-hop also has a larger presence with no less than seven different languages CREATIVITY IN AFRICA TODAY and numerous offshoots identified (boom bap, trap, electro, cloud rap, Afro, Conference & host: Jérôme Rousseaux experimental, Latino and even chanson-like rap). et Pascal Bussy Concert: Guiss Guiss Bou Bess As for reggae, it’s making a breakthrough - and not in its classic Jamaican form. SAT 7 DEC | 3.30PM-5.30PM Instead, here it’s unexpectedly merging with music from elsewhere for some spectacular results (Korean pansori, Californian pop, Japanese min-yō and English punk).

Electronic dance music is coming to life in other forms this year via syncopated post-industrial rhythms of TRANS MUSIC MAPS From November, discover the map charting the early 80s, such as futuristic Detroit electro or the 41st Trans Musicales at explore.lestrans.com European electronic body music.

Finally, African music remains largely represented at the 41st edition of Trans Musicales. It is forever undergoing transformations locally, while also witnessing change coming via its dispersed musical heritage spread throughout the Caribbean and the American continent. 3 TRANS MUSICALES 2019 KEY FIGURES FOR THE 41ST TRANS MUSICALES

› 25 VENUES › FESTIVAL FIRSTS of which 20 play host to gigs 1ST TIME PLAYING 1ST TIME PLAYING IN FRANCE IN EUROPE ACID ARAB (LIVE) CHOUK BWA AND THE ALYONA ALYONA ÅNGSTROMERS AMAMI CLAUDE FONTAINE › 5 DAYS BANTOU MENTALE COCHEMEA of festival in the centre of Rennes DJEDJOTRONIC CONTINUADORES JAWHAR GO GO MACHINE ORCHESTRA L’ÉCLAIR JOEY QUINONES & THEE SINSEERS › 6 DATES LOS BITCHOS MEGATIVE MAVERICK SABRE MINYO CRUSADERS in the Grand Ouest Trans on Tour NST & THE SOUL SAUCE MEETS KIM region MARINA SATTI YULHEE MEDLINE SAHRA HALGAN MEZERG U-ZHAAN, ROY & DOPENESS MUSH › 85 GROUPS VELVET NEGRONI OZADYA (YT PROD. & + 2 DANCE PEKODJINN) DJ SET MADE ESPECIALLY FOR TRANS COMPANIES SHHT DARZACK SHORTPARIS EDGAR SLIFT GILBERTO RODRIGUEZ Y LOS › 50 COUNTRIES STATS INTOCABLES REPRESENTED TAU GROOVE CONTROL TRIBADE GUISS GUISS BOU BESS YĪN YĪN HADI ZEIDAN KADOR LOUS AND THE YAKUZA MEZERG PLETNEV 4 SAHRA HALGAN TRANS MUSICALES 2019 GLOBAL SOUNDS

› KENYA NAIROBI COCO EM › MALAWI LILONGWE KADOR › MOROCCO CASABLANCA DRISS BENNIS AKA OCB › MOZAMBIQUE › IRAN/ISRAËL › USA MAPUTO CONTINUADORES [N/A]* LIRAZ › AUSTRALIA › ARGENTINA › ALGERIA › TAIWAN DALLAS MARC REBILLET › LEBANON [N/A]* LOS LOS ANGELES CLAUDE FONTAINE | JOEY BUENOS AIRES CATNAPP [N/A]* ACID ARAB › NIGER KAOHSIUNG GO GO MACHINE BEYROUTH HADI ZEIDAN BITCHOS QUINONES & THEE SINSEERS [N/A]* ACID ARAB ORCHESTRA › BRAZIL › BURKINA FASO MONTREAL BEN SHEMIE | MEGATIVE › TURQUIE GUARULHOS EDGAR OUAGADOUGOU ART MELODY › RWANDA › JAPAN NEW YORK MEGATIVE [N/A]* ACID ARAB [N/A]* GYSTERE KOMBISSIRI SONGØ [N/A]* LOUS AND THE YAKUZA TOKYO MINYO CRUSADERS MINNEAPOLIS VELVET NEGRONI SÃO PAULO GEZENDER | [N/A]* U-ZHAAN, ROY & SAN DIEGO COCHEMEA › CAMEROON | GHANA | › SENEGAL VICTOR RUIZ DOPENESS SAN FRANCISCO GILBERTO RODRIGUEZ MADAGASCAR DAKAR GUISS GUISS BOU BESS Y LOS INTOCABLES › CHILI [N/A]* GYSTERE › SOUTH KOREA › SOMALILAND BUSAN OCEAN HYE › HAITI [N/A]* MEDLINE › DR CONGO HARGEISA SAHRA HALGAN SEOUL NST & THE SOUL SAUCE › RUSSIA GONAÏVES CHOUK BWA & › COLOMBIE KINSHASA BANTOU MENTALE › SOUTH AFRICA MEETS KIM YULHEE SAINT PETERSBURG PLETNEV | THE ÅNGSTRÖMERS LUMUMBASHI LOUS AND THE BOGOTÁ ÁCIDO PANTERA MTHATHA SONGØ SHORTPARIS [N/A]* GYSTERE YAKUZA › PERU › SUDAN › JAMAICA › ERITREA [N/A]* DC SALAS [N/A]* MARINA SATTI [N/A]* MEGATIVE [N/A]* AMAMI › URUGUAY › TUNISIA › ETHIOPIE [N/A]* LOS BITCHOS TUNIS JAWHAR *[N/A] = Not available [N/A]* LES AMIRALES 5 TRANS MUSICALES 2019 WED 4 DEC THU 5 DEC FRI 6 DEC SAT 7 DEC SUN 8 DEC TNB TNB LES CHAMPS LIBRES LES CHAMPS LIBRES 20H00 ROUGE GORGE (FRA) 20H00 ROUGE GORGE (FRA) 14H00 > 16H00 CONFERENCE + CONTINUADORES 15H30 > 17H30 CONFERENCE + GUISS GUISS BOU (MOZ) ETIENNE DAHO (FRA) ETIENNE DAHO (FRA) BESS (SEN / FRA)

UBU UBU UBU UBU - FAMILY FRIENDLY CONCERT UBU - CLOSING PARTY CONCERT FOR YOUTH CENTRES 16H30 > 17H15 SAHRA HALGAN (SOM / FRA) 16H30 > 17H15 AMAMI (SUI / ERY) 15H00 > 15H40 CLAUDE FONTAINE (USA) 21H00 > 21H40 DC SALAS (BEL / PER)* 17H45 > 18H30 CONTINUADORES (MOZ) 17H45 > 18H30 L’ÉCLAIR (SUI) 21H40 > 22H30 CLAUDE FONTAINE (USA) 14H40 > 15H20 U-ZHAAN, ROY & DOPENESS (JPN) 19H00 > 19H45 KADOR (MWI / FRA) 19H00 > 19H45 LIRAZ (IRN / ISR) 23H00 > 23H45 VELVET NEGRONI (USA) OPENING PARTY 00H15 > 01H00 SYLVIE KREUSCH (BEL)

20H30 > 21H15 PTIT FAT (FRA)* 21H15 > 22H05 LES GRYS-GRYS (FRA) 22H35 > 23H25 U-ZHAAN, ROY & DOPENESS (JPN) 23H55 > 00H45 BANTOU MENTALE (COD / FRA / IRL)

L’ÉTAGE LE LIBERTÉ L’ÉTAGE LE LIBERTÉ L’ÉTAGE LE LIBERTÉ 16H00 > 16H40 LESNEU (FRA) 16H00 > 16H40 JAMES ELEGANZ (FRA) 16H00 > 16H40 LES AMIRALES (FRA / ATH) 17H10 > 17H50 GRAND SINGE (FRA) 17H10 > 17H50 JAWHAR (TUN / BEL) 17H10 > 17H50 MOHICAN (FRA) 18H20 > 19H00 TANGLED TAPE (FRA) 18H20 > 19H00 JAUNE (FRA) 18H20 > 19H00 MOUNDRAG (FRA) 19H30 > 20H10 MELOMAN & MÁNI (FRA) 19H30 > 20H10 TEKEMAT (FRA) L’AIRE LIBRE L’AIRE LIBRE L’AIRE LIBRE L’AIRE LIBRE L’AIRE LIBRE 20H30 ALBER JUPITER (FRA) 20H30 ALBER JUPITER (FRA) 20H30 ALBER JUPITER (FRA) 20H30 ALBER JUPITER (FRA) 17H00 ALBER JUPITER (FRA) LOUS AND THE YAKUZA LOUS AND THE YAKUZA LOUS AND THE YAKUZA LOUS AND THE YAKUZA LOUS AND THE YAKUZA (BEL / COD / RWA) (BEL / COD / RWA) (BEL / COD / RWA) (BEL / COD / RWA) (BEL / COD / RWA)

LE TRIANGLE - DANCE AT TRANS LE TRIANGLE - DANCE AT TRANS * + IN-BETWEEN SETS 20H00 COMPAGNIE MASSALA : NÄSS (FRA) 18H00 COMPAGNIE MASSALA : NÄSS (FRA) ENGRENAGE[S] : COMMUNAUTÉ ENGRENAGE[S] : COMMUNAUTÉ (FRA) (FRA)

HALL 3 PARC EXPO HALL 3 PARC EXPO HALL 3 PARC EXPO 20H00 > 20H30 VINCENT BLACK (FRA)* 20H30 > 21H00 JEAN-LOUIS-PRESQUE (FRA)* 20H30 > 21H00 WUNDERBAR (FRA)* 20H30 > 21H20 TAU (DEU / IRL) 21H00 > 22H00 SHHT (BEL) 21H00 > 21H50 MUSH (GBR) 21H50 > 22H40 MARINA SATTI (GRE / SDN) 22H35 > 23H25 STATS (GBR) 22H40 > 23H40 YĪN YĪN (NLD) 23H30 > 00H20 ÁCIDO PANTERA (COL) 00H25 > 01H25 LOS BITCHOS (AUS / SWE / URY / GBR) 00H40 > 01H40 SAN SALVADOR (FRA) 01H10 > 02H00 MEZERG (FRA) 02H25 > 03H25 SUN (FRA / DEU) 02H40 > 03H40 SLIFT (FRA)

HALL 8 PARC EXPO HALL 8 PARC EXPO HALL 8 PARC EXPO 20H30 > 21H00 KOSMO PILOT (FRA)* 21H15 > 21H45 MEDLINE (FRA / CHL)* 21H30 > 21H55 MARLON (FRA)* 21H00 > 21H50 ART MELODY (BFA) 21H45 > 22H45 GO GO MACHINE ORCHESTRA 21H55 > 22H55 JOEY QUINONES & THEE SINSEERS (TWN) (USA) 22H40 > 23H30 MAVERICK SABRE (GBR) 23H40 > 00H30 GILBERTO RODRIGUEZ Y LOS 23H45 > 00H45 GROOVE CONTROL (FRA) 00H20 > 01H10 COCHEMEA (USA) INTOCABLES (USA) 01H45 > 02H45 01H40 > 02H30 SONGØ (FRA / ZAF / BFA) CHOUK BWA & THE 01H30 > 02H30 TRIBADE (ESP) ÅNGSTRÖMERS (HTI / BEL) 03H45 > 04H45 NST & THE SOUL SAUCE MEETS KIM 03H30 > 04H30 GUISS GUISS BOU BESS (SEN / FRA) YULHEE (KOR) 05H30 > 06H30 MINYO CRUSADERS (JPN) 04H45 > 06H30 BRE.TONE DJ (FRA)

HALL 4 GREENROOM PARC EXPO HALL 4 GREENROOM PARC EXPO HALL 4 GREENROOM PARC EXPO 22H00 > 22H50 BEN SHEMIE (CAN) 23H00 > 00H00 POING (FRA) 23H00 > 01H00 OZADYA (YT PROD. & PEKODJINN) DJ SET (SUI) 22H50 > 01H00 DRISS BENNIS AKA OCB (MAR) 00H00 > 01H30 HADI ZEIDAN (LBN) 01H00 > 02H30 COCO EM (KEN) 01H00 > 02H00 DJEDJOTRONIC (FRA) 01H30 > 03H30 GEZENDER (BRA) 02H30 > 04H00 DRUIDE (FRA) 03H30 > 05H30 SHLAGGA (FRA) 04H00 > 05H00 BILLX (FRA)

HALL 9 PARC EXPO HALL 9 PARC EXPO 22H00 > 23H00 MEGATIVE (CAN / USA / JAM) 21H45 > 22H30 CATNAPP (ARG / DEU) 23H00 > 00H15 OCEAN HYE (KOR) 22H30 > 23H30 DARZACK (FRA) 00H15 > 01H15 SHORTPARIS (RUS) 23H30 > 01H00 PLETNEV (LTU / RUS) 01H15 > 02H15 MARC REBILLET (USA) 01H00 > 02H10 ACID ARAB LIVE (FRA / ALG / NER / TUR) 02H15 > 03H05 EDGAR (BRA) 02H10 > 03H40 VICTOR RUIZ (BRA) 03H05 > 04H20 DJ SUSPECT (FRA) 03H40 > 04H40 ALYONA ALYONA (UKR) 04H20 > 05H15 GYSTERE (FRA / BRA / CMR / GHA / 6 HTI / MDG) TRANS MUSICALES 2019 CREATIVITY AT L’AIRE LIBRE In partnership with L’Aire Libre © Laura Marie Cieplik

Every year, Trans Musicales gives a young artist the opportunity to create an original live show especially for the wonderful L’Aire MORE THAN 20 YEARS OF CREATIVITY! Libre theatre. Since 1997, the festival has welcomed more than 20 1997 Yann Tiersen presents Le Phare artistic creations to its stage as part of this collaboration. 1998 Mathieu Boogaerts This winter, discover the exclusive show from Lous and The La chanson du Yakuza. Following a residency of several days, she will perform 1999 Théo Hakola presents Zorro andalou five shows alongside her musicians especially for the occasion. 2000 Françoiz Breut LOUS 2001 Kohann 2002 Venus AND THE YAKUSA 2003 Sharko L’AIRE LIBRE I Saint-Jacques-de-la-lande 2003 Eiffel 4 › 7 DEC | 8.30PM (stage times) 8 DEC | 5PM (stage times) 2004 Santa Cruz

23-year-old Lous has already lived several lives between Africa and 2004 Yann Tiersen & Shannon Wright Belgium, which all helped forge her personality and that rare, intense 2005 Katerine look. As a compositor, songwriter and singer with a particularly striking 2006 Peter Von Poehl timbre, the young musician has built on these contrasts which today 2007 Tunng feat. Buck 65 & Serafina Steer add an emotional richness to her tracks, as she writes heart-rendering 2008 Orka feat. Yann Tiersen pop songs on serious topics in the same vein as Stromae. Lous dreams 2009 Gaëtan Roussel big (“I want to be the example of a black woman who found success 2010 Stromae alone, despite all opposition”), and thanks to her characteristically 2011 Kütu Folk bright energy, she’s sure to reach those dreams - whatever the cost. 2012 Iceberg: High On Democracy SUPPORT 2013 Benjamin Clementine › ALBER JUPITER 2014 Jeanne Added Style: Krautrock / Post-rock 2015 Paradis Origin: France (Rennes) 2016 Fishbach 2017 Nakhane › See artist biography page 17 2018 Aloïse Sauvage © JelizaLoup 7 TRANS MUSICALES 2019 EDEN TOUR In partnership with LE TNB © Jono Luis Bento

was clear he was taking a risk artistically. While the desire to change ETIENNE DAHO might well have unsettled a few fans a first, over the yearsÉden has

t’s a rather special occasion for Trans Musicales to host Étienne gone on to become a true classic for many fans who took the time Daho on stage. Why? Well, the first time he played here was in fact to understand the artist’s favourite album, for the musical change it Ialso our first year in action, way back in 1979. After a crazy live show represents and also the themes touched upon in his personal lyrics. from the short-lived collective called Entre Les Deux Fils Dénudés Apart from the album Éden, this show is the opportunity for Étienne de la Dynamo, the Oran native who grew up in Rennes soon broke Daho to take a look back at tracks released the year before (in 1995, through as an artist in his own right, as the following year he was back during a collaboration with English group Saint Etienne), and more on the very same stage at the Salle de la Cité. However, this time globally at this pivotal period in his career. During this time, he cut he was accompanied by his group of musicians, Marquis de Sade, loose from certain rules of pop that were a little too restrictive for his and going by the name Étienne Daho Jr. Over the next few years, his love for liberty. And what’s more, it enabled him to continue reinventing name was splashed across the media and he had a string of hits from his creative ambition. 1984 onwards. He came back to the festival again in 1986 during peak TNB I Rennes “Daho-mania”, for a huge show called “Daho and Friends”. WED 4 DEC | 8PM (door times) Forty years after launching on to the scene, Étienne Daho today has THU 5 DEC | 8PM (door times) a special status on the French pop and chanson scene. Rather than SUPPORT settling for a nostalgic journey through his back catalogue with a “best-of” show, the musician sees his reunion as a “re-creation”, and › ROUGE GORGE © Amélie Taillard as an opportunity to shine the spotlight on his album Éden. He wants Style: Synthpop to do justice to one of his favourite albums from his discography, which Origin: France (Rennes) when released in 1996, threw numerous listeners and music critics off › See artist biography course for various reasons. page 25

Up until that point, Daho was aesthetically renown for his tinkling guitars, funky rhythms and irrefutable tunes. However, here Étienne Daho had immersed himself in 90s London and its English electronic sounds, beginning a transformation fuelled on acid grooves, jazz, trip- hop, house and jungle – just like David Bowie was doing at exactly the same time. What’s more, he evolved vocally, as his vocal phrasing become freer thanks to a sort of spoken-singing that he’d already experimented with in the past, enabling him to play with more laid- 8 back, drawling groove often associated with Serge Gainsbourg. It TRANS MUSICALES 2019 DANSE AT TRANS In partnership with Le Triangle

Engrenage(s) are a Rennes-based dance company Seven men elevate the power of unity in this who have been around since 2003. Created by intense, acrobatic dance performance. Their Franck Guizonne (aka Franco) and Elodie Beaudet, driving force? Rhythm! An incessant, obsessive this choreographic creation unites five dancers for rhythm which boils over and breathes energy into a show which examines the place of hip-hop and the body. Näss is a dialogue between traditional its cultural melting pot in the context of division. North African music and dance which marked the Les Trans has supported Engrenage(s) in bringing choreographer’s childhood, and which has been this creative piece to life, and an extract from rewritten to intertwine with the urban cultures Communauté will be previewed. he discovered and embraced in France. Näss is — on the border between the non-believer and the Choreography & direction: Franco Guizonne et sacred, between unrestrained modernity and an

Elodie Beaudet attachment to rituals which hold their defence. Company: Engrenage[s] The dancers dare to confront contradictory bodily states, asserting the popular, urban dimension of hip-hop dance. — Choreography & direction: Fouad Boussouf Company: Massala

Engrenage[s] Massala 9 TRANS MUSICALES 2019 TRANS THROUGHOUT THE COUNTRY

TRANS ON TOUR This year, Trans has supported: Local bands will be offering a sneak preview of the festival, touring the Grand Ouest area in and around Rennes. The Trans Tour plays a major role in the support that Trans offers artists. This support is split into three phases:

SEVERAL GIGS IN THE PERSONALIZED TRAINING WORKSHOPS 3 DAYS OF REHEARSALS AT GRAND OUEST BEFORE ON JOBS IN THE MUSIC INDUSTRY L’UBU TRANS MUSICALES © Théo Didier › MELOMAN & MÁNI › MOHICAN › BONJOUR MINUIT Electro-hip hop / cloud rap Chanson hip hop / electro-pop FRI 29 NOV › UBU Alter Real THU 14 NOV Meloman & Máni Meloman & Máni › 6PAR4 Moundrag Moundrag FRI 22 NOV TeKeMat Songø TeKeMat © Winnie Gotmilk BARY2SAX BREST › MOUNDRAG › SONGØ Prog-rock Psychedelic Afro-pop SAINT-BRIEUC

LORIENT RENNES LAVAL © FraKK’Art Studio › TEKEMAT Brass house SAINT-NAZAIRE SINCE 2002, 105 BANDS HAVE TAKEN PART IN THE TRANS TOUR, INCLUDING: › L’HYDROPHONE THU 28 NOV 2018 ATOEM / Initials Bouviers Bernois / PRAA / MoHican RexRegis TeKeMat 2015 Her Maø 2014 Fragments › LE VIP 2012 Mermonte › LA CARÈNE SAT 23 NOV THU 21 NOV Meloman & Máni 2011 Juveniles Les Amirales Songø 2008 Papier Tigre Moundrag + guest Songø 2007 GaBlé 10 2002 Bikini Machine TRANS MUSICALES 2019 PRO- GRAMME

4DEC 6DEC 8DEC › Concerts for youth centres: U-Zhann, Roy › Conference-concert: The many faces of › Creativity at L’Aire Libre: Alber Jupiter & Dopeness music in Africa today / + Lous and The Yakuza Ubu (Rennes) Concert : Continuadores (Saint-Jacques-de-la-Lande) Les Champs Libres (Rennes) › Creativity at L’Aire Libre: Alber Jupiter › Closing party: Claude Fontaine + Lous and The Yakuza › Danse at Trans: Cie Massala + Velvet Negroni + DC Salas + Sylvie (Saint-Jacques-de-la-Lande) + Engrenage[s] Kreusch Le Triangle (Rennes) Ubu (Rennes) › Concert: Rouge Gorge + Etienne Daho TNB (Rennes) › Meet and greets & Debates Le 4BIS / Maison des Associations (Rennes) › Opening event: U-zhaan, Roy & Dopeness + Bantou Mentale + Les Grys-Grys + Ptit Fat › Concerts at l’Ubu & at L’Étage (Rennes) Ubu (Rennes) › Creativity at L’Aire Libre: Alber Jupiter + Lous and The Yakuza (Saint-Jacques-de-la-Lande) 5DEC › Concerts at Parc Expo (Bruz) › Concert: Guiss Guiss Bou Bess Centre Pénitentiaire des Hommes de Rennes-Vezin 7DEC › Meet and greets & Debates Claude Fontaine Le 4BIS / Maison des Associations (Rennes) › Family friendly concert: – Ubu (Rennes) › Concerts at l’Ubu & at L’Étage (Rennes) › Conference-concert: The conditions for › Creativity at L’Aire Libre: Alber Jupiter musical creativity in Africa today / + Lous and The Yakuza Concert: Guiss Guiss Bou Bess / Les Champs (Saint-Jacques-de-la-Lande) Libres (Rennes) › Concert: Rouge Gorge + Etienne Daho › Danse at Trans : Cie Massala + TNB (Rennes) Engrenage[s] – Le Triangle (Rennes) › Concerts at Parc Expo (Bruz) › Creativity at L’Aire Libre: Alber Jupiter + Lous and The Yakuza (Saint-Jacques-de-la-Lande) › Concerts at l’Étage (Rennes) › Meet and greets & Debates 4BIS / Maison des Associations (Rennes) › Concerts at Parc Expo (Bruz) 11 TRANS MUSICALES 2019

HISTOIRES VINYL EXHIBITION PROJECT PARC EXPO - HALL 5 400 albums, 400 Trans references: after originally launching this project to celebrate Trans’ 40th anniversary to the day The Histoires project delves back into Trans Musicales’ past, last June, whereby 200 musical releases were displayed on bringing its archives to life via different types of events. the walls of L’Ubu, this year we truly wanted to develop this subjective overview of shows that stood out in 1979.

TRANS MUSIC MAPS The long-awaited result? This visually immersive experience looking back at festival highlights and discoveries will cover a Trans have collaborated with Klaxoon on the Trans Music Maps whole wall of Hall 5 during the festival. project since 2007. This interactive web app enables you to travel back through each and every Rencontres Trans Musicales line-up, festival by festival, since 1979. LA TABLE The source for Trans Music Maps is our website dedicated to our TRANS MUSIC MAPS

heritage: histoires.lestrans.com (live since the beginning of October). PARC EXPO – HALL 5 © Marion Bornaz It brings together records of the festival’s previous line-ups, as well as Every evening during the festival, come test out the app on a information on the artists, photos of their Trans Musicales shows and large tactile screen in Hall 5 at Parc des Expositions. Try it out links to listen to their music (via streaming websites, where applicable), SACEM EXHIBITION - and dive into 40 years of Trans Musicales history! ND showcasing the album dating back to the year they played. 2 EDITION LE LIBERTÉ › explore.lestrans.com Trans Music Maps | 2018 edition SACEM (The Society of Authors, Composers and Publishers of Music) has been around since 1851, and is today made up of more than 170,000 members from 167 different countries! This exhibition goes behind the scenes and shows a

© Marion Bornaz lesser known side of what it’s like to be a musician. Expect notifications of musicals works, song lyrics and sheet music, illustrated with corresponding album covers taken from Radio France multimedia library, as well as photographs › HISTOIRES DE PUBLICS from the bottom of the festival’s archives. The Histoires de Publics collection brings together and showcases › musee.sacem.fr festivalgoers’ souvenirs in a dedicated online space. And also: For the second edition, contributions will be on display in Hall 5. From November to December, there will be an

© Ph Remond exhibition at Bruz multimedia library and a retrospective Find full details of this project in the Histoires press pack exhibition at the Rennes headquarters of Crédit Mutuel  de Brétagne Direction Départementale d’Ille-et-Villaine. 12 available in the press area. TRANS MUSICALES 2019 TRANS MUSICALES INTERNATIONALLY

ince opening up the programme to international and European artists in 1981, Trans Musicales has continued to showcase INTERNATIONAL › New in 2019! Smusic from all four corners of the globe. FESTIVAL PARTNERS Conference and presentation on the French music industry – in English. And the 41st festival edition is no exception as this year musicians are coming from more than 48 different countries, a record for the event. › LE BUREAU EXPORT This year, Trans Musicales is hosting a conference in English Le Bureau Export’s partnership with Trans Musicales goes back some aimed at international music industry professionals and This exceptional cultural and geographical diversity can also be seen 20 years now, and since 2015, they’ve helped bring 75 industry media. Held at the festival’s industry professional’s village on in the delegation of foreign music industry professionals and media, professionals from the world over to the festival. Friday 6th December (time tbc), this conference will offer an which grows bigger year after year. On average, about 150 foreign introduction to the French music industry – one of the most music industry professionals including 30 different media outlets attend › GLAZ MUSIC important in the world – and all it specific features. the festival every year. They come from Europe but also from the USA, Glaz Music is made up of 25 different music industry organisations Canada, Latin America, Africa and as far as Asia to experience this Géraldine Zanaska, a new addition to Trans Musicales’ from various musical genres. Based in Brittany, they work collectively unique event. international relations team for 2019 and co-founder of towards developing musical artists and groups internationally. All of the Franco-British agency Compass Music, will host the There are many different networking opportunities for them to meet these organisations represent the musical diversity that coexists in conference with a panel of French professionals from different and exchange with their French counterparts. This year, there’s a new Brittany and the various ways of working. Together, they champion the sectors of the music industry, including Vincent Nicod - booker conference format aimed at the international delegation, enabling them wealth of variety of Brittany’s musical creativity. and promoter at WART - and Abigaïl Aïnouz - editor in chief to get a better understanding of the French music industry context. and creative director at General Pop. 2019 will also be the opportunity to celebrate the 4th consecutive year of renewing the partnership between Trans Musicales and the influential American radio station KEXP. For the past three years, they’ve filmed Key Figures: Glaz Music in Rennes since A unique partnership with Institut Français 29 live sessions featuring artists on the festival line-up in various unique 2015: and Le Bureau Export locations of architectural prowess in the city of Rennes. 68 foreign delegates from French embassies and Institut 26 different countries across Français involved abroad 5 continents 10 music industry Brittany-based organisations bands from Brittany played 73 involved: production companies, music live on stage 25 venues, festivals and publishers 13 private showcases

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NOTES : ...... › ACID ARAB �� SAT 7 DEC / HALL 9 �� › ALYONA ALYONA › ART MELODY SAT 7 DEC / HALL 9 THU 5 DEC / HALL 8 Discovered during the unforgettable Trans �� When she was a teacher in the Ukrainian province Art Melody isn’t a new kid on the West African rap Musicales 2013 closing party, Acid Arab (at the of Kirovohrad, Alyona Savranenko saw her whole block, but the whole world should soon know his time made up of DJs Guido Minisky and Hervé › ÁCIDO PANTERA world turn upside down after posting her first hip- husky voice and punchy, even warlike, flow which Carvalho, and producers Pierrot Casanova and THU 5 DEC / HALL 3 hop track Рибки on YouTube in 2018. She was met deliver his incredibly powerful messages. Backed Nicolas Borne) were looking to unite artists Since 2013, these two Columbian musicians have with immediate success, and the video launched by the Bordeaux-based producer Redrum, he who could carefully produce dancey electronic created a musical hybrid of synthetic sounds Alyona Alyona’s career. In a country where not alternates the ambiance depending on the project tracks with Arabic and Middle-Eastern sounds. and regional traditional rhythms (cumbia, porro, speaking Russian is a political gesture, Alyona (Afro-soul, East Coast hip-hop or even electro-hip- They reached out to people both humanly and bullerengue, champeta…) in their very own way. Alyona raps her ironic lyrics in Ukrainian and hop with Joey Le Soldat as part of Waga 3000). musically, and were met with success which sent During their frenzied live shows, expect diverse impresses with her flow and stage presence. Tôk Tôko is the first track to drop from his album them around the world playing a multitude of gigs. Afro-Columbian instruments (bombo, alegre…) Zoodo, in which traditional percussion instruments They next went on to become a collective, racking to mix with the keytar and dialogue with a kuisi, NOTES : ...... �� can be heard evoking industrial music. The sound up numerous collaborations including one with a Native American flute. After the huge wave of �� has a sort of added futuristic-Afro dimension to it, Algerian keyboard player, Kenzi Bourras, who has electro-cumbia these past few years, Ácido Pantera �� making it just as intense as it is engaging. now joined the band. Their new album Jdid is out are taking the Columbian sound even further. now on Crammed Discs, and the “most exported NOTES : ...... NOTES : ...... �� French group of 2017” is giving us the honour of �� › AMAMI FRI 6 DEC / UBU �� their first concert in France, showcasing the record. �� The Amami trio is made up of Ines Mouzoune (bass, What’s more, a whole host of guests will be along vocals, synths, effects), Raphaël Anker (electronic for the ride, such as the saviour of modern raï percussions, drum machine, EWI, effects) and Gabriel music, the Algerian Sofiane Saidi; the great Turkish › ALBER JUPITER Ghebrezghi (vocals, Casio keyboard, effects), and singer Cem Yıldız; as well as Filles de Illighadad, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 DEC / L'AIRE LIBRE together they serve up their own vision of a tropical the enchanting songstresses from Nigerian Sahel. Alber Jupiter, the duo comprised of Nicolas Terroitin transcontinental sound. From Caribbean rhythms Musically, their dialogue between Western techno (bass) and Jonathan Sonney (drums) create characteristic of digital dancehall (dembow) to and Arabic music is unique, with hints of raï, Iraki- musical landscapes around repetitive patterns and East African monotonous chants via frenzied dub Syrian dabkeh, Chaoui incantations, Palestinian psychedelic effects (delay, reverb). Evoking the with a boost of acid techno, the inspiration behind arghul, Tunisian mizwad and even psychedelic post-rock sound of Godspeed! You Black Emperor, these Geneva-natives’ thrilling, dancey, cross-bred goblet drums. Having gone far beyond the two Alber Jupiter take us on an interstellar trip to sounds seems unlimited. founders’ expectations, Acid Arab has well and krautrock lands via motorik beats. truly become the most effective way to push the party boundaries. 17 TRANS MUSICALES 2019 › BANTOU MENTALE › BILLX › CATNAPP › CLAUDE FONTAINE WED 4 DEC / UBU SAT 7 DEC / GREENROOM SAT 7 DEC / HALL 9 SAT 7 DEC / UBU - FAMILY FRIENDLY CONCERT SUN 8 DEC / UBU Created by Cubain Kabeya, drummer and Nice-native Billx is a rather prolific producer from Argentinian artist Amparo Battaglia combines hip- Faced with a choice between bossa nova and songwriter-composer from Kinshasa, Bantou the hardcore scene. He’s recently made a name hop and electronic R&B, with heavy breakbeat, reggae, Claude Fontaine picks both. With a Mentale is a four-piece made up of guitarist Chicco for himself for having successfully drawn together devilish pop and much more to create intense shared love for Brazilian and Jamaican music, the Katembo, singer Apocalypse as well as Irish two scenes that are renowned for being rather atmospheres with lyrics inspired by snapshots American singer has just released her debut album, producer-composer Liam Farrell (alias Doctor L). incompatible: psy-trance and hardtek. Playing of nightmares. With an experimental approach, dedicating one side of the record for each genre. Their Afro-rock incantations mix dub bass and hardcore and psychedelic tracks with radical breaking beats and rumbling bass, it was only She’s even surrounded herself by some of the beats with electro-hip-hop, making for a sound that beats that hark back to gabber, he’s recently been natural that the Modeselektor (Trans Musicales biggest names from the two scenes (guitarist Tony blends the numerous influences from the band dabbling in some traditional sounds (be they Indian, 2007) duo signed the Berlin-based artist to their Chin, drummer Airto Moreira). Imagine if Claudine members’ previous projects. The result explains Oriental and even Irish), making him one of the label, Monkeytown Records. Longet were to have discovered a passion for Kabeya’s intention: “It’s not really a new Kinshasa major names on the Frenchcore scene. NOTES : ...... tropical music… Claude Fontaine whispers dream- sound, but rather a new world sound.” �� NOTES : ...... like songs against a backdrop of sunny rhythms �� NOTES : ...... �� and sounds like a forgotten singer of the sixties. �� NOTES : ...... �� › CHOUK BWA & THE �� › BRE.TONE ÅNGSTRÖMERS �� › BEN SHEMIE SAT 7 DEC / HALL 8 THU 5 DEC / HALL 8 THU 5 DEC / GREENROOM Since 2013, this DJ duo from Rennes have been The group unexpectedly came about when Brussels When recording his electro-sounding debut solo spreading party vibes wherever they go, thanks › COCHEMEA duo The Ångströmers met Haitian group Chouk THU 5 DEC / HALL 8 album, Suuns singer-guitarist Ben Shemie set to their modern yet erudite mixes. Their preferred Bwa Libète, making for blindingly obvious results. After having been at the beck and call of others himself a challenge: record the lot in one go and not soundscape? Groovy, radiant house music, be it While the former are known for their amateur noisy (Sharon Jones and The Dap-Kings, The Budos change a thing afterwards. It’s a risk worth taking in more on the Afro, funky or disco side of things. With experimentations and modular synths, the latter are Band, Antibalas, Archie Shepp, Quincy Jones, the search for authenticity and happy accidents. Up their positive vibes and masterful technique, they amongst the most distinguished representatives of Amy Winehouse, David Byrne…), now saxophonist on stage, Canadian Ben Shemie continues in this do it all on vinyl. Expect a closing set by the book traditional Haitian music, notably those linked to Cochemea Gastelum is serving up a rather personal same experimental vein. Surrounded by machines, at Parc Expo. voodoo culture. When these two groups merge, project which explores his Native American roots his vocoded vocals lay atop synth pads making for NOTES : ...... expect electronic sounds close to a hypnotic dub (he’s a descendant of the Yaqui and Mescalero an exciting, adventurous journey. �� mixed with incantatory vocals and rhythms created �� Apache) through spiritual jazz rich in percussion th NOTES : ...... �� from 17 -century African percussions. The result? A sounds. It all came about from some improv �� completely heady ceremony. �� sessions with a dozen or so musicians, making for �� NOTES : ...... some spiritual, shamanic ceremonial sounds. �� NOTES : ...... �� 18 �� TRANS MUSICALES 2019

› COCO EM › DARZACK › DJ SUSPECT › DRISS BENNIS AKA SAT 7 DEC / GREENROOM SAT 7 DEC / HALL 9 FRI 6 DEC / HALL 9 OCB Coco Em is a Kenyan DJ based in Nairobi, who With the energy and freshness of youth, musical Having grown up on a diet of rare groove soul and THU 5 DEC / GREENROOM first got into mixing thanks to a love for hip-hop. genius Théo Rocca has already developed his funk and the funkiest sounds from the golden age of Producer and founder of record label Casa Voyager, She’s since moved towards a more Afro-electro, own musical language, that of an ageless techno hip-hop, DJ Suspect have become the international Moroccan Driss Bennis goes by various names Afro-house rich sound that’s filled with numerous with signs of the 80s, acid techno parts, mind- reference in the above styles. In fact, he also depending on the music he’s making, which can central and southern African styles (kuduro, kwaito, blowing synth-pads and lots of instruments (African, appears on productions from famous labels such be anything from hip-hop under the alias DJ.Booth, soukous...). After recording a Boiler Room session tribal, electronic…). On stage, Darzack also plays as BBE Records or Heavenly Sweetness. Member to house music under his real name. When playing in Nairobi and playing at some of the biggest electronic instruments while bouncily dancing of The Funk League, as well as 45 Live and Dusty as OCB, electro is on the menu, and today Driss electronic events around Africa (from South Africa around, living his music to the max and passing on Donuts, his funky hip-hop mixes are enriched with Bennis is one of the best ambassadors of this to Tunisia, via Uganda and Niger), Coco Em is now his infectious energy to the crowd. tropical sounds with a party spirt that always takes syncopated sound invented by techno pioneers in spreading her contagious sounds across the whole over his shows. NOTES : ...... Detroit at the beginning of the 80s. world, starting in France at Trans Musicales. �� NOTES : ...... NOTES : ...... �� NOTES : ...... �� › DC SALAS SUN 8 DEC / UBU › DJEDJOTRONIC › DRUIDE › CONTINUADORES Brussels native Diego Cortez Salas is a DJ/producer THU 5 DEC / GREENROOM FRI 5 DEC / GREENROOM THU 5 DEC / UBU with Peruvian roots who first started out on radio During his first live show at Trans Musicales in 2008, Not only is Franck Charpentier a plastic artist who’s FRI 6 DEC / LES CHAMPS LIBRES at the age of 15, before going on to develop an Jérémy Cottereau’s productions were the perfect output often appears in the guise of a collage, Created by two multi-instrumentalists (Ailton extremely open taste for electronic music culture. match for the densely compressed, saturated but he’s also a figure in the Rennes underground José Matavela and Tiago Correia-Paulo), He sure has a knack for mixing syncopated electro sounds of label Boynoize Records, who had just scene. As a musician, he moved from punk in the Continuadores is an audiovisual project which futuristic tracks with house (be it deep or disco), signed the artist. Since then, he’s followed his own 80s to industrial-electro the following decade, then nostalgically pays homage to Mozambique’s first electro-pop songs or even sometimes old Belgian path, mutating his sound towards the origins of performing as part of the duo Tank Debil. For the years of independence, from the revolution to the new-beat gems, one after the other, which dancers electro. But this isn’t electro in the generic, clichéd past ten years or so, his industrial-electro mixes emergence of Mozambicanicity (the country’s welcome with open arms. sense, but actually in the original style inherited with punk synthetics are like a ceremonial outlet singular and plural cultural identity). The duo by Kraftwerk and Sakamoto, and then brought to celebrating the glory of men and machines. presents a dreamlike show in semi-darkness, NOTES : ...... �� life by Cybotron around 1983 as they imagined the where Matavela’s superb vocals mix with electronic NOTES : ...... �� sound of 2020. Djedjotronic has gone back in time plumes that trace the outlines of romantic, sensitive �� to play music of the future - and the future is now. �� pop. �� NOTES : ...... NOTES : ...... �� 19 TRANS MUSICALES 2019

NOTES : ...... › EDGAR › GILBERTO �� › GUISS GUISS BOU FRI 6 DEC / HALL 9 �� RODRIGUEZ Y LOS �� BESS Brazilian artist Edgar develops a visual and musical THU 5 DEC / CPH DE RENNES-VEZIN universe built on his social and environmental INTOCABLES FRI 6 DEC / HALL 8 FRI 6 DEC / HALL 8 SAT 7 DEC / LES CHAMPS LIBRES concerns (our relationship with technology, Inspired by jazz, psychedelic rock and Afro-Cuban › GRAND SINGE As a percussionist, singer and dancer, Senegalese natural resource management, pollution…). He THU 5 DEC / L'ÉTAGE rhythms (guaguancó - a subgenre of rumba, as artist Mara Seck is the complete package. His exudes sheer dexterity as he switches from rap Dressed in ape-like masks and capes worthy well as són and salsa) in equal measures, the aim is to create modern music around sabar, to spoken word, delivering his message like a of Belphegor, together the improbably-named singer-guitarist from San Francisco Bay serves a Senegalese tradition which refers to a musical whistleblower, backed by apocalyptic electro-hip- rappers Zo, Miqi O and Boucherie Chevaline make up an unusual musical project which combines style, a family of drums and also a rather sensual hop atmospheres elaborated by Pupillo (drummer up the collective Grand Singe. Together with their percussions, keyboards, bass and trumpets. Their dance. When he met Stéphane Constantini in 2016 from Chico Science & Nação Zumbi, who appeared nonsensical lyrics which play about with a collision tracks release a somewhat sensual, spiritual force (a Frenchman living in Dakar who masters Mandinka at Trans Musicales in 1995). What’s more, he unites of words and homophony, plus old-school beats thanks to their progressive, captivating formations, percussions and electronic productions), the two style and substance with his homemade costumes with an irresistible groove, they create a universe and vocal improvisations give an added mystical artists brought the concept of electro-sabar to life, made from recycled materials, fully personifying his filled with mystery. Hailing from Besançon, this trio touch to this elusive groove. merging traditional and electronic percussions with message on stage. serve up a fresh hip-hop sound filled with good singing and dancing making for an authentic ritual NOTES : ...... vibrations. NOTES : ...... �� for the body and soul. On stage, they’re also joined �� NOTES : ...... by a percussionist and two dancers. �� NOTES : ...... �� › GO GO MACHINE �� › GEZENDER �� FRI 6 DEC / GREENROOM ORCHESTRA FRI 6 DEC / HALL 8 › GROOVE CONTROL Member of the São Paulo collective Mamba Negra, SAT 7 DEC / HALL 8 As the first ever Taiwanese group to be invited to › GYSTERE Brazilian Tiago Franco has developed a sombre, Having formed at Trans Musicales in 2009, play Trans Musicales, Go Go Machine Orchestra are FRI 6 DEC / HALL 9 immersive electronic universe often based on the Rennes hip-hop collective Groove Control one of those bands (like Anna Meredith in 2016 or 80s child Adrien Peskine grew up on a diet of acid sounds. His records released on International have since toured their multi-disciplinary show Thor & Friends in 2017) whose compound sound Japanese cartoons and the French kids’ TV show DeeJay Gigolo Records and Mamba Rec explore throughout France. Dancers (Mike and Linda is born from minimalist, repetitive music à la Steve Club Dorothée, and now the shape-shifting artist an alternative path through house, techno and Hayford, Cambo and Ska), rappers (Simba and Doc Reich. However, by mixing acoustic (marimba, has created a multimedia concept going by the electro, all while sticking to the standard textures Brown), DJ (DJ Freshhh) and beatboxer (O’slim) are drums, piano), electric (guitars) and electronic name of Gystere. Between his over-the-top fake and colours. The resulting audio explorations are back again today with a new concept, retracing sounds (synths, music machines), the five-piece TV shows with a VHS aesthetic, his vintage-tinged his hallmark. their artistic evolution over the years. They’ll also also draw from jazz, prog rock and post-rock – oft videos and his group dressed in extravagant NOTES : ...... be joined by guests Saro and DJ Netik. reminiscent of Tortoise – to paint majestic, dream- clothing which don’t deny the Sun Ra or Funkadelic/ �� Parliament similarities, Gystere has built a logical �� like soundscapes. NOTES : ...... �� world where the driving factor is music. His funk �� sound is played by a cosmically cosmopolitan band �� 20 (with members from Madagascar, Haiti, Ghana, TRANS MUSICALES 2019

Cameroon and Brazil) who aim towards jazz and NOTES : ...... �� progressive sounds filled with aesthetic nods to the › JOEY QUINONES & › KOSMO PILOT �� THU 5 DEC / HALL 8 80s (keytar, slap bass), in which Gystere shows off �� THEE SINSEERS SAT 7 DEC / HALL 8 And that makes 11! Every year since 2009, the his romantic R&B vocals with a feminist stance. For their debut single released earlier this year, Saint-Malo DJ takes his winter residence at Trans NOTES : ...... Joey Quinones & Thee Sinseers successfully Musicales, exploring the outer limits of a vast �� › JAUNE polyphonic world, concocting mixes to match his �� FRI 6 DEC / L'ÉTAGE covered James Brown’s 1961 rhythm & blues track �� Producer and drummer in-demand (he’s in Frànçois I Don’t Mind, sounding like a modern group version anagrammatic pseudonym: cosmopolitan! He & The Atlas Mountains, who played at Trans of the godfather of soul. As proud representatives takes us on a journey through popular music from › HADI ZEIDAN Musicales in 2012), Jean Thevenin decided to no of the East Los Angeles’ Chicano community, where the world over, playing Asian funk, bossa-nova, longer hide behind his drums and come forward doo-wop and soul occupy a special place, singer- Caribbean psychedelica, jazz beats, hip-hop and FRI 6 DEC / GREENROOM to centre stage. Jaune nurses his Blessures de trumpet player Joey Quinones and his Sinseers quirky French chanson one after the other. Kosmo Born and raised in Beirut, these days you’ll find l’Égo (wounded ego) in his melancholic songs venture on the path of rhythm & blues, New Pilot intermingles everything this planet has to offer, DJ Hadi Zeidan in Paris with his unrestrained which deploy an intimate pop filled with electronic Orleans-style jazz and even rocksteady, making for serving up some incredible sounds! taste for vintage analogue synthesiser sounds, instruments. His partners in crime, Frànçois Marry a formidable musical voyage which blasts away any Oriental percussions and hypnotic grooves typical NOTES : ...... and Amaury Ranger (from Frànçois & The Atlas notion of time and borders. �� to current house and disco sounds. On top of his �� Mountains, of course) will come lend Jaune a hand mixes and compositions, the artist-activist created NOTES : ...... �� on stage this time round at Trans Musicales. Beirut Electro Parade, which lends its name to a �� nomadic festival and a music label that promotes NOTES : ...... �� modern electronic music from the Lebanese capital �� › L’ÉCLAIR �� FRI 6 DEC / UBU and the Middle Eastern region. �� › KADOR Formed by six Swiss groove fans, L’Éclair play NOTES : ...... THU 5 DEC / UBU progressive funk enriched with Afro-Cuban jazz �� influences (congas and bongos), dub-esque �� › JAWHAR Kador is a mysterious bunch of musicians and �� FRI 6 DEC / L'ÉTAGE video-makers led by Malawian rapper Edash Quata sound effects (echo and delay) and 70s-inspired Tunisian-born Belgian Jawhar Basti weaves a pop- and guitarist MCA, who depict an apocalyptic vision synthesiser sounds. Built around psychedelic jam › JAMES ELEGANZ folk sound that’s inspired as much by chaabi as it of the world through a narrative conceived as a film. sessions, these dance tracks evoke the origins is the sombre sounds of Timbre Timbre, or Nick Quata’s abrasive vocals – reminiscent of Epic Rain of disco, that time when funk collided with Lain- FRI 6 DEC / L'ÉTAGE Drake’s smooth folk sound. Like the latter, he too (Trans 2011) – tell the story against a soundtrack of American music. Recently signed to Bongo Joe, Rennes native James Eleganz is the outrageous has a delicate, ethereal, murmuring voice which hip-hop beats, electro-dub sounds not dissimilar to L’Éclair’s perfectly cut live show is as flawless as singer from the energetic electro-rock group sings of love, loss and disillusionment with the Ez3kiel (Trans 1999) and heavy, bluesy rock guitars. a DJ set yet fuelled by improvisation, making for a Success (who played at Trans Musicales 2008), Arab Spring. His vocals – a mix of Arabic, Italian fabulous groove machine. who fled to California to inject some life into his NOTES : ...... and French – spell out his own poetry and feeds off folk-rock songs for his debut solo album. In his new �� NOTES : ...... emotive melancholia. �� look as a singer-songwriter, Eleganz has truly come �� into his own as he takes us on a phantasmic voyage NOTES : ...... �� across the American expanses, singing murder �� ballads filled with dark romanticism. �� 21 TRANS MUSICALES 2019 › LES AMIRALES › LESNEU › LOS BITCHOS › MARC REBILLET SAT 7 DEC / L'ÉTAGE THU 5 DEC / L'ÉTAGE FRI 6 DEC / HALL 3 FRI 6 DEC / HALL 9 A close friend of Miossec, with whom she Taking his name from Lesneven, a small town in When the London-living Uruguayan expats Unknown only a few months ago, this Dallas- collaborated live on stage and on record, the his native Finistère department in Brittany, Victor Carolina Faruolo and Agustina Ruiz met Australian based musician recently got his name heard on violinist virtuoso Mirabelle Gilis met the Ethiopian Gobbé’s (singer in Slow Sliders, who played Serra Petale, the three young women discovered the internet after the videos he filmed in his flat singer Sara Petit during a trip to London. Along Trans Musicales in 2014) solo project takes us a shared passion for instrumental rock and Los when viral. Standing alone behind his sampler and with drummer Guillaume Rossel (DBFC and Rachid to a dreamlike land filled with melancholy. On a Destellos’ Peruvian chicha. As three have become keyboard, he delivers exhilarating, ecstatic soul Taha), the two musicians created Les Amirales, the backdrop of heavy bass, tingling guitars and bright five on stage, Los Bitchos nonchalantly weave performances into the microphone. It’s a mix of name that’s a rough mixture of their names and a keyboards, Lesneu’s atmospheric songs are the sunny instruments filled with a psychedelic scent joyous tension, liberating freedom and infectious nod to the seafaring city of Brest, where the group ideal vehicle for his incantatory vocals. and chichi. Driven by an infectious enthusiasm, this pleasure – the sign of a true entertainer. And his are based. Together, the three musicians create glamourous group is fun, radical and leaves no one art of improvisation means that each of his shows NOTES : ...... electronic pop featuring smooth harmonies that �� feeling indifferent. are truly unique. often ride a melancholic wave, but don’t hesitate �� NOTES : ...... NOTES : ...... to follow a path towards disco, rock and country. �� NOTES : ...... �� › LIRAZ �� FRI 6 DEC / UBU �� Born in Israel after her Iranian parents fled their › LOUS AND THE › MARINA SATTI homeland at the start of the revolution, singer- YAKUZA THU 5 DEC / HALL 3 › LES GRYS-GRYS actress Liraz Charhi uses singing as a way to 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 DEC / L'AIRE LIBRE Marina Satti is a multi-talented Greek artist (theatre, WED 4 DEC / UBU connect to her Persian roots. Sung in Farsi, her 23-year-old Lous has already lived several lives classically trained singer and pianist, jazz…) whose Maximum R&B! Hailing from Alès, these children of repertoire mixes original tracks and covers of between Africa and Belgium, which all helped music embodies the multiculturalism of her roots. The Kinks and The Pretty Things have taken The Iranian stars. Her music makes for a mixture of forge her personality and that rare, intense look. With every polyphonic chorus, she creates a fusion Who’s slogan and made it their own, delivering a traditional Persian sounds, 70s Iranian pop à la As a compositor, songwriter and singer with a pop sound mixing modern and traditional elements blues, rock’n’roll, R&B sound all rolled into one, Googoosh, as well as modern day rhythms thanks particularly striking timbre, the young musician (Arab, Oriental, Balkanise music…), in which she just like the Brits tried to do during the 60s blues to producer Rejoicer. For her musical approach, has build on these contrasts which today add an transfers a message of hope to the Greek youth boom. Les Grys-Grys are true purists of that era: think A-Wa or Altin Gün with a Persian aesthetic. emotional richness to her tracks, as she writes and all those in need, as seen in her video for they added a ‘y’ in their name in Byrds-esque style, Mantissa. NOTES : ...... heart-rendering pop songs on serious topics in the they record in analogue, and they perform timeless �� same vein as Stromae. Lous dreams big (“I want NOTES : ...... �� songs that alternate twirling harmonica and guitar to be the example of a black woman who �� sounds. found success alone, despite all opposition ”), �� NOTES : ...... and thanks to her characteristically bright energy, �� she’s sure to reach those dreams - whatever the �� cost › MARLON SAT 7 DEC / HALL 8 NOTES : ...... A “child of Trans Musicales” in a quasi-literal sense �� (his dad was a member of the group Excès de Zèle, 22 �� who played at the first ever festival edition in June TRANS MUSICALES 2019

1979, two months before he was born), Marlon lives he covers rare jazz and funk tracks that have been impressed with their self-produced debut album that Africa (Afro-blues, Afro-fuk, Ethiopian groove), his musical life in panoramic: classically trained sampled in numerous hip-hop songs – and as a DJ in 2018 (T.I.M.E Machine), confirming a freestyling Asia (Thai pop) or the Caribbean (reggae, cumbia opera singer, funky drummer, sound engineer and specialising in rare grooves. talent that has already been viewed several as well as music linked to Cuba, like són, salsa, DJ/party-starter on rare special occasions. His hundreds of thousands of times on YouTube. bolero-són and boogaloo). It all makes for a joyful, NOTES : ...... musical baggage is definitely pretty open, and his �� unique experience. NOTES : ...... �� mixes adapt to any situation. With a super groovy �� NOTES : ...... Saturday slot in Hall 8, he’s already stated his set �� will be black music-orientated �� NOTES : ...... › MEGATIVE �� FRI 6 DEC / HALL 9 › MEZERG �� Megative came about from Tim Fletcher and Gus THU 5 DEC / HALL 3 �� › MOHICAN Van Go’s (ex-members to The Stills) desire to mix Mezerg is a DIY musician with endless inventiveness! SAT 7 DEC / L'ÉTAGE punk and reggae in the same vein as The Clash’s This one-man band mixes acoustic instruments When up on stage, Rennes-native MoHican make › MAVERICK SABRE Sandinista!. Their idea? Create “the B album of (prepared piano, drums) with electronics (synths, organic instruments (drums, bass, trumpet) coexist THU 5 DEC / HALL 8 this double album that Combat Rock never was”. theremin) and loves performing in the most unlikely with electronic sounds, resulting in a French From the start of his career under the guidance of After a key encounter with singer Screechy Dan, of places (in the back of a van, on the metro, in chanson, electro-pop tinted hip-hop sound. Driven rapper-singer Plan B (who played at Trans Musicales the dub poet from Kingston, as well as the arrival of the toilets…). Mezerg is a virtuoso with a punk spirit by the singer’s poetic momentum, the group makes 2005), to regularly collaborating with Jorja Smith NY producing duo Like Minds, Megative could then who can go from ragtime to classical with a collision the French language stylishly swing, conforming to today, this English-Irish artist has quickly found the launch their mission! And the results are dazzling, of techno beats, and describes his style as piano this new scene that reinvents the codes of French- path to success thanks to two albums that mix classic with sombre, haunting reggae that rings of The boom boom. At Trans Musicales, he’ll showcase a sung pop. and contemporary R&B sounds. After debuting with Specials, King Tubby and dub à la Lee Scratch one-off artistic creation created especially for the NOTES : ...... a retro-soul sound, these days his tracks are more Perry. occasion. �� stripped-back, modern and emotional, fiercely �� NOTES : ...... NOTES : ...... �� dealing with Irish social problems and still lead by �� his strikingly intense soul vocals. �� NOTES : ...... �� › MELOMAN & MÁNI › MINYO FRI 6 DEC / L'ÉTAGE CRUSADERS Straight from Rennes’ scene lead by the group FRI 6 DEC / HALL 8 › MEDLINE Columbine, Vincent Gardenat and Etienne Manivel, Following the Fukushima disaster in 2011, guitarist FRI 6 DEC / HALL 8 aka Meloman & Máni, deliver a hip-hop sound with Katsumi Tanaka left in search his of Japanese Orlando Diaz Corvalan – aka Medline – is a multi- hints of trap, cloud rap and synthwave. While both identity, and instead discovered min’yō – songs instrumentalist, record label head (My Bags) and members come up with their own beats, up on associated with the working class. Tanaka then digger extraordinaire who specialises in unusual stage Meloman raps while Máni is on the decks. gathered together a dozen musicians to adapt covers and vinyl obscurities. His talent shines Meloman rapidly bandies about the punchlines – these traditional songs to music from elsewhere, be through in both his wonderful records - in which in both English and French, and the duo sure 23 TRANS MUSICALES 2019

NOTES : ...... synthetic waves and metallic percussions which of the Romanians from Khidia (Trans Musicales › MOUNDRAG �� produce quasi-industrial echoes. Her approach to 2016). Pletnev appears to be having a ball making SAT 7 DEC / L'ÉTAGE �� techno it truly organic, fresh and one of a kind. this dancey electronic sound that’s deliciously Camille and Colin Goallen Duvivier are brothers. �� hypnotic and rich in traditional instruments from One plays the drums, the other the keyboard, and NOTES : ...... �� various origins. both sing. Together, they prove you don’t need › NST & THE SOUL �� guitars to play rock’n’roll. Having earned their �� NOTES : ...... MEETS �� stripes in the band Smooth Motion (who played at SAUCE KIM �� Trans Musicales in 2017), the two musicians play YULHEE �� heavy psych, a musical hybrid that came to life SAT 7 DEC / HALL 8 › OZADYA (YT PROD. at the end of the 60s when early hard rock and The story behind this South Korean came about & PEKODJINN) DJ progressive rock were yet to even lay out their after an unexpected encounter between NST & › POING The Soul Sauce, a reggae band lead by bassist Noh SET FRI 6 DEC / GREENROOM rules. Somewhere between The Nice and Black SAT 7 DEC / GREENROOM Seon Teck, and Kim Yulhee, a singer specialising in Since his band I Come From Pop played at Trans Diamond Heavies, live on stage Moundrag are Ozadya is a collective and record label which pansori – the traditional art of musical storytelling. Musicales in 2007, François Joncourt has invested powerful and energetic, and hold a special place unites rappers, DJs, producers, beatmakers, VJs NST & The Soul Sauce are shaking up tradition in more electronic, abstract musical landscapes for improvisation. and graphic designers, and they’ve been shaking by subjecting these age-old musical tales, that which see maritime beats mix with continental NOTES : ...... the Geneva scene for several years now. YT Prod are usually only accompanied by a drum, to a rumblings. It’s a piece of precise, pared-back �� and Pekodjin are two DJs and beatmakers from the �� reggae treatment with some added roots and dub. sound design which acts as an immersive narrative, collective, and they’ll serve mixes combining each �� When Kim Yulhee sings her stories above these drawing bridges between different moments in of their preferred sounds: Brazilian baille funk and th hypnotic grooves, the marriage between these two electronic music history from the 20 century, trap for YT Prod, and Afro-electro, Latin house and aesthetics on geographical polar opposites sound musique concrete and techno. › MUSH other warm tropical rhythms for Pekodjinn. They’ll so self-evident. SAT 7 DEC / HALL 3 certainly set the house on fire. NOTES : ...... �� When Brit rock toughens up and gets increasingly NOTES : ...... NOTES : ...... �� political, we can always rely on a Northern band �� to report on the situation from a distance with a �� faint smile in the corners of their mouths. Leeds- based Mush bring a touch of lightness with ironic › PTIT FAT WED 4 DEC / UBU post-punk gems which play around with the whole › OCEAN HYE FRI 6 DEC / HALL 9 › PLETNEV While he’s been flying solo under this moniker for absurdity of the current situation. Successors to SAT 7 DEC / HALL 9 Ocean Hye (pronounced “he-yay") is a South Korean the past few years, Mathieu Maurice is perhaps Gang of Four and Pavement, these fans of devilish Originally from Saint Petersburg but today based DJ who’s recently bounced onto underground most known as a voracious musician devouring guitars and syncopated rhythms with an added in Vilnius, Lithuania, Alexander Pletnev is a DJ/ techno scene in Busan – the major port town in the lots of musical projects. Whether he’s dabbling shot of punk make Mush a mischievously raw producer who’s certainly come a long way since his south of the country. During her progressive sets, in jazzy trip-hop with L’entourloOp!, or the funky band. deep house beginnings going by various different she likes to build up the ambiance mixing tribal soul band Funk You Very Much, working alongside names. These days he’s flying under his surname, tech house inspired by African and South American James Eleganz (Trans Musicales 2011) in Rivoli, or offering up a very different sound that’s somewhere funeral rites sounds with frenzied rhythms of even part of the electro-hip-hop duo Joy Squander between the tribal techno of the Italian Fango (Trans 24 Musicales 2015) and the Middle Eastern fragrance TRANS MUSICALES 2019

(Trans Musicales 2014), this artist has always the blues of the desert from the West African sound filled with sugary pop tunes that’ll lead you NOTES : ...... �� shown his solid music culture as well as a mighty Tuaregs. It’s a headily joyful nostalgic sound. astray. �� good knowledge for groove. Well, that makes two NOTES : ...... NOTES : ...... �� invaluable attributes for this DJ who’ll be opening �� the festival! �� NOTES : ...... › SLIFT �� SAT 7 DEC / HALL 3 �� When it comes to the Toulouse natives from Slift, �� › SAN SALVADOR › SHLAGGA it’s often a question of planets, space exploration, SAT 7 DEC / HALL 3 FRI 6 DEC / GREENROOM fuzzy guitars and hypnotic rhythms. Inspired by half Labelled as a “people’s choir from the Massif Activist on the underground Marseilles scene and a century of krautrock, psychedelic garage rock › ROUGE GORGE Central region”, this ensemble takes its name cornerstone of the Metaphore Collectif, Schlagga MER. 4 & THU 5 DEC / TNB and space rock, this energetic trio with futuristic from their home town of Saint-Salvadour, a small has a rather jam-packed musical trajectory: from Rennes musician Rouge Gorge already graced ideas serves up frenetic sounds which like to take village in Corrèze with only 310 residents. Far from being a drummer, studying musique concrete and the stage at Trans Musicales in 2016, bringing a meandering detours, taking the listeners on a conventional traditions, this six-piece (three men, acoustic electro at a conservatory, and having a minimalist electro-pop cum chanson sound built journey to the stratosphere and beyond…. three women) practice the art of polyphonic singing passion for punk, metal, krautrock and extreme from vintage synthesizers and drum machines. in the Occitan language, multiplying the thrilling industrial – one after the other. This rich, coherent NOTES : ...... Choosing to sing in French, the musician evokes effect tenfold with percussions, evoking a North identity permeates his mixes which cause early �� those pioneers who popularised synth in the 80s, �� American pow-wow. These ancient texts passed 80s futuristic electro to collide with 90s hardcore �� such as Taxi Girl and Indochine, creating a uniquely on orally come to life in the imaginary folklore of breakbeat and hypnotic industrial techno. poetic universe. this community whose voices come together to be NOTES : ...... NOTES : ...... as one. �� › SONGØ �� SAT 7 DEC / HALL 8 �� NOTES : ...... �� Songø’s first time playing to the public was at Ubu, as �� th �� part of Trans Musicales 40 anniversary celebrations �� on 14th June 2019. That night, the crowd sure did › SHORTPARIS shake for this young band supported by Les Trans. › SAHRA HALGAN FRI 6 DEC / HALL 9 THU 5 DEC / UBU The band came about after an encounter between Dark clothes, closely-shaven, blank faces, defiant Military nurse, political figure and emblematic artist › SHHT South African singer Sisanda Myataza (who’s vocals FRI 6 DEC / HALL 3 air…. On first look, the guys from Shortparis appear from Somaliland (the self-declared state of North are rather incantatory) and the Burkinabé drummer SHHT is a hallucinatory five-piece from Belgium menacing. On stage, the group let it all go in dark, Somalia that declared independence in 1991), Sahra Petit Piment hooked up with two members of the who have a taste for the bizarre. Just like the persistent grooves with flights of lyricism from the Halgan is an icon and cultural ambassador for her Rennes group City Kay (guitarist/bassist Yoann psychedelic collage on the cover of their debut singer’s haunted voice. The minimalist darkwave country. With her extraordinary voice – which has Minkoff and keyboard wizard Loeiz, who played at album (where Tibetan monks read an astronomy from this Russian band born in Saint Petersburg a mix of African and Middle Eastern influences – Trans Musicales in 2015). Songø’s polyglot pop is a book blindfolded, accompanied by a pelican and is intense, anxiety-inducing and nourished on moves to the rhythms and keys inherited from hybrid of soul, electro and Afro beats, resulting in a a gorilla), their music is a bombastic mash-up of theatrics and punk spirit. With synthsy beats which Mulatu Atsaké’s Ethio-jazz, striking up a dialogue surprisingly psychedelic mix. Flaming Lips, Frank Zappa and Kanye West. An acid hark of Suicide and Liars, Shortparis is an icy – yet with Afro-rock guitars that amazingly evoke assouf, trip which fuses runny synths, auto-Tuned vocals fascinating – dance machine. NOTES : ...... and convoluted guitars, making for a deviant funk �� 25 TRANS MUSICALES 2019

Maarten Devoldere, Sylvie Kreusch has recently shape-shifting group where guitars, keyboards and alight the Spanish hip-hop scene – and it won’t be › STATS gone solo, and her first songs already give us an oriental instruments come together to create an long until the rest of the world goes up in flames FRI 6 DEC / HALL 3 inkling of the unique sound direction she’s going incantatory, kaleidoscopic folk rock sound. Filled too! For Londoners Stats, music is their outlet. Their to take. Take Seedy Tricks, where her throbbing with spirituality and mystical poetry, TAU’s sound is songs are snapshots which recount the life of your NOTES : ...... voice is seductively cold and takes on a few an ode to chaos and all things bizarre. �� average Joe Bloggs, who seems a bit suffocated by Oriental tinges, while haunting African percussions �� his business suit and liberated by synthsy rhythms NOTES : ...... �� and various ethnic sounds take place, evoking a �� and funk during a frenzied after-work drink. By synthetic pop version of Dead Can Dance. �� transforming the everyday, the band create a �� dancey yet smart pop sound that’s completely NOTES : ...... › U-ZHAAN, ROY & �� irresistible. �� DOPENESS �� › TEKEMAT WED 4 DEC / UBU NOTES : ...... SAT 7 DEC / L'ÉTAGE �� Having done the odd unusual collaboration over the �� Matthieu Letournel and Matthieu Garreau share the past 20 years with artists from all across the musical �� › TANGLED TAPE same name, the same uniform (baseball cap and spectrum (Ryuichi Sakamoto, Cornelius, Hifana, THU 5 DEC / L'ÉTAGE hoody combo) and the same unconditional love Oren Ambarchi, Jim O’Rourke…), tabla player This groove-infused band hailing from Toulouse is for techno music. Together they form Tekemat, U-zhaan is now teaming up with rappers Tamaki › SUN lead by singer Nelle Mess and songwriter N-Soul. an out-of-the-ordinary techno group and the most FRI 6 DEC / HALL 3 Roy and Chinza Dopeness (aka Kakato, the hip-hop Tangled Tape offer a collection of soul jazz and R&B minimalist brass band around. While one’s on the While there have been many male/female duos in duo who’ve been around more than 10 years). After sounds built on acoustic hip-hop beats. While they drums, the other plays the sousaphone, plus there’s rock music, SUN comes with a difference: you’ll a flurry of suave videos (such as the superb Bunka), declare Erykah Badu and J Dila as their sources of Mad Fab too - their DJ-ing secret weapon who’s find the woman on the guitar, and the man behind the trio have honed a unique minimalist aesthetic inspiration, their nu soul indeed reflects a desire to in the shadows, mixing their music live giving it the drums. Self-described as “brutal pop”, the in which Japanese rap is enhanced by the tabla’s create tracks where the past and present feed off that electro punch. Tekemat sure are a unique and Parisian pair are attempting the bold feat of filtering harmonic purity. A European first! one another, gracefully and sensually in response dancey acoustic sound system. through some metal sounds (double drum pedal, NOTES : ...... to one another. death growl) to their pop melodies. The charismatic NOTES : ...... �� singer is worthy of a metal Courtney Love, as SUN NOTES : ...... �� energetically and powerfully smashes the rule �� book to smithereens. ��

NOTES : ...... › VELVET NEGRONI �� › TRIBADE SUN 8 DEC / UBU �� › TAU FRI 6 DEC / HALL 8 After several years in the shadow of other �� THU 5 DEC / HALL 3 Tribade are a female rap trio from Barcelona artists (such as Bon Iver, with whom he recently Producer and sometime member of Camera (who who are afraid of nothing. Activists behind the collaborated), it’s under the alias Velvet Negroni that played at Trans Musicales in 2012), Irishman Shaun LBGT cause, the three MCs spit out biting lyrics American Jeremy Nutzman decided to launch solo. › SYLVIE KREUSCH Mulroney has reinvented himself as a psychedelic on religion, social reality and the hypocrisy of the SUN 8 DEC / UBU His suave vocals sit atop tracks free from all formal shaman in Berlin, baptising himself Nunutzi. In the privileged, against a backdrop of beats where While we’ve already heard her vocals on several constraint, as Velvet Negroni blurs the boundaries worldly German city, alongside his Venezuelan flamenco, soul and reggaeton collide. With three tracks as part of Warhaus alongside her compatriot between synth pop, R&B, rap, soul and even jazz. 26 associate Gerald Pasqualin, he’s launched TAU, a videos and an album to their name, Tribade has set TRANS MUSICALES 2019

From slow tempo tracks with a subaquatic vibe to delicate pop gems, Velvet Negroni paints a moving, › WUNDERBAR SAT 7 DEC / HALL 3 fascinating sound. After several years in various psychedelic electro- NOTES : ...... pop Rennes-based bands (YUMMY YUMMY, �� Interstellar Overdrive), Emmie has now put away �� his keyboards. Instead, he’s concocting DJ sounds going by the name of Wunderbar, creating mixes anchored in the world of 21st century rock’n’roll. › VICTOR RUIZ What to expect? Soaring psychedelica, rock that SAT 7 DEC / HALL 9 takes off and garage anthems. After starting out as the bassist in many punk and metal bands, Victor Ruiz has progressively made NOTES : ...... �� a name for himself over the past decade as one �� of the stars of the Brazilian techno scene. A close �� collaborator with Alex Stein (who played at Trans Musicales in 2015), just like his compatriot, he shares a distinct taste for techno filled with powerful › YĪN YĪN SAT 7 DEC / HALL 3 kicks and bass that’s perfect for a simply letting go Following in the tradition of vagabonding Dutch altogether as one in the biggest Hall at the festival. musicians (Altin Gün, Jacco Gardner with the NOTES : ...... Zambians from Witch), it’s in South-East Asia that �� the Yìn Yìn duo went in search of the matrix for �� their psychedelic pop songs. Their instrumental sound is a tangle of traditional oriental sounds, dub, electronic funk, Western guitars and Moroder- › VINCENT BLACK esque disco grooves, making for an invigorative THU 5 DEC / HALL 3 culture shock. Taking his DJ pseudonym from the silky-haired NOTES : ...... hero from the American TV series The Renegade, �� Vincent Black transforms into an electro conductor �� as soon as he gets behind the decks. While house, �� bass, drum & bass, trap and minimal techno are his genres of choice, this groove explorer is not shy of taking detours via disco, funk and hip-hop with only one obsessive aim in mind: to make people dance!

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