2006

Thursday, November 2, 2006

Shelly Martinez Jewel D Nile

Terra Terra Maire Maire

A VOCAL AND AN INITIATORY EXPERIENCE

“Terra Maïre” is a unique duo of ‘a cappella’ singers.

Two surprising voices, emanating from the same source – those of Marie-Ange and Beatrice, mother and daughter – with a common heredity and a common repertoire, rooted in the South of France, in the regions of Rouergue, the Basque Country and the Bearn…
In the int ertwined voices of “Terra-Maïre”(“Mother Earth” in the Oc language of the South), a world of essential emotions wells up, one that borders on the sacred and on sorcery. These are medieval and sacred melodies in Occitan, language of troubadours and Cathars, which touch the heart of an ever-growing public.

A Unique Heritage
This musical adventure began in 1996, when Beatrice and Marie-Ange started out together on a pilgrimage back to their roots.
As of then, mother and daughter - each with her own personality and her own artistic background - began to breathe life back into the secular songs of the land of their ancestors.
These songs – prayers, laments, psalms – "chevrotés" or “sung in a quavering voice” by men and women wh o have gone before them and most of whom have disappeared, make up a unique heritage, a timeless tradition in danger of extinction.

Recordings
Those initial years of research constitute the thread of their first a capella recording, dedicated to the songs of the Rouergue region in Aveyron. (“De Maïre en Filha” 1996. L’autre distribution).

Here, with decided intensity and mastery, their two voices explore this traditional music. It is a music made not of notes, but of faces, of sharing, of sensations, where each song has its own colour, its own emotional and spiritual charge.

Little by little, Marie-Ange and Beatrice became imbued with these songs, and they started to transmit the initiation or the symbolic role of the melodies, a sacred and archaic emotion.

This led them to produce a second CD: "Terra Maïre : Chants archaïques et sacrés d'Occitanie” (L’Autre Distribution). It is a mature work, composed of mountain chants, “sorcery chants” or “circulars”, and prayer chants. In this new repertoire from the different areas of Occitanie, Beatrice and Marie-Ange’s voices bring out all the strength and mystery of the melodies. What started as a cultural and lyrical quest had now, for them, turned into an inner experience.

Terra Maïre on Stage – an Initiatory Journey
Marie-Ange and Beatrice have decided to definitively take on the beautiful stage name of Terra Maïre, Mother Earth.
Their performance has deepened and expanded; it now leads them to occupy a prime position in numerous festivals in France and abroad.
One must go to one of their concerts, if even only once, to feel the depth of emotion they invoke in the audience and in professionals, who often come away profoundly moved.
The deep, incantatory chants, the subtle dialogue between the voices, the sensitive participation of a talented cello player (Claire Menguy), mother and daughter’s twirling dances, Beatrice’ mystical dance… all contribute to giving the performance the intensity of an initiatory experience.
Today, Terra Maïre participates with growing success in numerous concerts and festivals, both in France and abroad, while enriching its field of research with incursions into neighbouring vocal traditions (those of the Basque Country, Catalonia…).

Wednesday, November 1, 2006

Engagement Congratulate The Man

Maiyu Terra: I can not listen to it for anything!

from the south of France, mother and daughter give a capella.

. Tourubadoru bard of Provence, medieval chants sung by the school in Occitan and Katari.

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Terra Maiyu :
two voices one sprung from the fountain of
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Maiyu Terra, that this genre is very unique a cappella together.
mothers and daughters, Beatrice and Marie Ange genetically, and Languedoc (Ruerugu, Basque, Bearn) are tied to one rooted in the repertoire.

Maiyu Terra (in Occitan, "mother earth" meaning) of the blend of voices, leading to the spiritual world in Fanjikku hidden world of emotion in the human who have a free soul is immediately captivated by listening to it.
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incomparable patrimony
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sound the beginning of this adventure, and Marie-Ange origin Beatorisu What faces the " pilgrimage " started 1996 years back.
mother and daughter, put into their personality and artistic background
吟Jiru the ancestral land of lyric poetry in ancient spell.
prayer, Lamentations, Psalms - these poems were by men and women 詠Wa ancient patrimony, but to be exceptional, most of which are lost, this is now a tradition since ancient times, crisis has been forced to disappear.

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work
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behind a series of musical activities in Aveyron They Ruerugu song dedicated to the first a cappella recording of sound ("from mother to daughter" 1996 ) there.
their voice, she already has a strong impact, which may suggest themselves to those of traditional music this perfect.
Rather than note that due to the expression, facial, share, and by the senses, each of presentation of its own color, and emotional, they have been served by the mental power.

Beatrice Marie Ange and gradually explore the origin and expression just went beyond that.
of oneself to stay just a melody seep past it became more difficult.
handsome CD , "Terra Maiyu: Choral Classics Okushitan" And we reached perfection she is.

this mature work, "poetry of the mountains," "Witch's Song," "Song" collective "prayer" are also included.
Beatorisu and Marie Ange is the voice of a new repertoire and rooted through a variety of local Occitan to have raised the bursting strength and mystery.

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Terra Maiyu on stage: a rite of passage experience
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"Maiyu Terra - Mother Earth" - Beatrice Marie Ange and decided to use the designation of this beautiful production.
They appeared to stage the festival is done in countless national and international attention came to be was going to further increase the degree of maturity.

close professional and general audiences - about fusion - the energy to understand the girls which is at least one should try to watch live.
profound poetry, mystic spells, woven into the dialogue between voice and superb cellist, playing Claire Mangy dance inspiration of Beatrice,,,.
all the girls on stage, I give the thrill of the experience as a rite of passage.

vocals while also studying other traditional epic poems like the Basque and Yiddish,
極Meyou and depth while their fathers and what could 生Shi now , Terra Maiyu France and abroad, has appeared in many concerts and festivals.