EXPERIENCE VOICE INITIATORY
Two amazing voices that arose from the same source: those of Marie Ange e t Beatrice, mother and daughter, United much by heredity than by their repertoire drawn their roots in the South of France (Rouergue, Basque, Béarn ..).
voices mingled Maïre Terra (Mother Earth in Occitan) are brought to life a world of emotions essential to the confines of the sacred and the sorcerer. Medieval chants and sacred, in Occitan, the language of the troubadours and the Cathars, the heart touching an audience that continues to widen.
a unique heritage.
This musical adventure began in 1996 when Beatrice and Marie-Ange undertake, side by side, a pilgrimage to the sources.
Mother and daughter, each with his personality and his artistic career, began to restore life to the songs secular land of their ancestors.
These songs - prayers, laments, chants - "quaver" by the elders, women and men disappeared for the most constitute a unique heritage, a tradition from time immemorial endangered.
Records
These initial years of research form the basis of a first record devoted to a cappella singing Rouergue (Aveyron). (Filha mayor in 1996. The other distribution).
Their two voices are already exploring with great intensity and control this popular music, which is not made of notes but of faces, sharing of feelings, where every song has its own color, its emotional and spiritual.
Gradually Marie-Ange and Beatrice will be permeated more most of these songs, to transmit the function or role initiatory symbolism, emotion and sacred archaic.
A process crowned by a second CD, "Terra Mayor: Sacred Chants and archaic Occitan (L'Autre Distribution). A mature work composed songs of mountains," songs witches "or" circular "and songs of prayer. The voice of Beatrice and Marie-Ange through this new directory from the different territories Occitan reveal the strength and mystery. The cultural quest and lyrical dev ient inner experience.
Terra Maïre direction: an initiatory experience
Marie Angelo and Beatrice definitely adopt this beautiful stage name: Terra Maire, Mother Earth.
Their show grows, grows and allows them to occupy a prominent place in many festivals in France and abroad.
must be present, once least one of their concerts to grasp the depth of emotion they arouse among the public and professionals who often come Boulev RSES.
The songs deep, incantatory, the dialog ue subtle between voices, intervention sensitive a talented cellist (Claire Menguy), the whirling dance of mother and daughter, the mystic dance of the young Beatrice ... all contribute to give their show the intensity of an initiatory experience.