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Haino Keiji : guitare, voix
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Marteau Rouge/Haino Keiji
Ainsi, les quatre hommes qui montèrent sur scène à 21h sont sans doute des techniciens hors pair, mais cela ne leur aurait été d'aucune utilité s'ils n'avaient doublé cette première qualité d'une épaisseur humaine palpable dans le moindre regard et le moindre échange. Ce qui lia Marteau Rouge à Keiji Haino, ce soir-là, tenait d’une forme de respect mutuel pour la personne qu'est l'autre et la puissance du signe envoyé au public.
Jean-François Pauvros s'approcha d'abord du micro et les graves de sa guitare emplirent l'espace. Deux mailloches à la main, Makoto Sato entreprit de définir le pourtour d'un rythme ouvert à tous les possibles et, comme bien souvent, on s'apercevait à posteriori que Jean-Marc Foussat avait déjà planté les premières planches d'un décor aussi mouvant que la vase. Dans cette matière organique dont les particules se multipliaient à mesure que les individus prenaient de l'assurance, Haino se saisit de sa guitare et déchira des premiers cris de son instrument la toile encore fragile que le trio venait de tisser.
Jean-François Pauvros répliqua d'un rythme assassin, les roulements de toms convoquèrent le tonnerre et le décor s'enflamma. Dès cet instant, la partie était jouée… Il ne me reste d'ailleurs, de cette heure de tensions furieuses et de détentes relatives, que l'impression tenace d'un jeu constant où chacun poussait l'autre vers des précipices abrupts, mais lui tenait la main de peur qu'il n'y tombe. Et la musique montait, envahissait le chapiteau et le corps même des spectateurs incrédules devant ce bras de fer géant, dont nous savions déjà qu'il serait mémorable. L'on vit ainsi Keiji Haino s'approcher de son homologue français pour une joute guitaristique au centre du plateau. L'on vit Jean-François Pauvros interloqué devant une proposition démente d’Haino, finalement y répondre en frottant les cordes de ses mains pour un rythme désarticulé que Makoto Sato reprit cependant à son compte. L'on entendit un carillon sorti d’outre-tombe par Jean-Marc Foussat qui comblait soudain le vide d'une accalmie passagère. L'on vit le même trublion chapeauté sortir un jouet de sa poche et rehausser l'image de bulles de savon iconoclastes éclatant au nez des musiciens. L'on vit enfin la parfaite communion d'un trio coutumier des invitations dangereuses et d'un invité offrant tout ce qu'il pouvait donner sans la moindre tentative de domination d'une part ni de l'autre. L'on vit, en fait, quatre véritables personnes au plus fort de leur art, conscients de leurs responsabilités et créant, in situ, l'image d'un monde tel qu'il devrait être.
Il serait inutile et sans doute stupide, dans une programmation aussi éclectique, de parler de meilleur concert du festival. D'autres moments, dans leur différence, atteignirent un semblable degré de connivence et de création collective. Pourtant, de par le côté spectaculaire de leur prestation, allié à une réelle intelligence musicale, la rencontre de Marteau Rouge et de Keiji Haino fut sans doute la plus étonnante performance à laquelle il m'ait été donné d'assister depuis bien longtemps. Bien sûr, la veille, le duo "Haino & Barre Phillips" avait peut-être fouillé plus profondément notre conscience, mais la puissance de ce quartet resta inégalée jusqu'à la fin de cette édition 2009.
Joël Pagier (Improjazz)
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Marteau Rouge/Haino Keiji
Hence, the four men occupying the stage at 9 p.m. were undoubtedly outstanding technicians, but it would have been of no use to them if they had not doubled this first quality with a human density, palpable in the slightest glance, the slightest exchange. What linked Marteau Rouge to Keiji Haino that night, was a form of mutual respect for each other's integrity, within which laid the powerful sign they sent to the public.
At first, Jean-François Pauvros approached the microphone filling the space with bass sounds pouring out from his guitar. Makoto Sato with two mallets in hand, set out to define a rhythmic perimeter open to all possibilities, as usual we suddenly notice that Jean-Marc Foussat has already planted the first set with something like muddy moving sands. Within this organic living matter, particles multiplied as individual confidence grew. Haino grabbed his guitar and with his instrument's first shrieks, tore through the still fragile web the trio had just woven.
Jean-François Pauvros replied with a devastating rhythm, the toms rolled, summoning thunder, igniting the set. From that moment, Game over ... Somehow, this hour of furious tensions and moments of relative quietness, leaves me with the tenacious impression of constant interaction in which the players pushed each other towards abrupt cliffs, while holding hands for fear that one might fall. And as the music rose, invading the big top and the very bodies of spectators in disbelief in front of this giant standoff, we already knew this would be a memorable moment. We then saw Keiji Haino approaching his French counterpart, center stage, for a guitar joust. We saw Jean-François Pauvros taken aback by Haino's demented proposal, finally responding by rubbing his strings with his hands playing a disjointed rhythm that Makoto Sato somehow took over. A chime was heard from beyond the grave, it was Jean-Marc Foussat suddenly filling the void of a temporary lull. We then saw the same hatted troublemaker take a toy out of his pocket and enhance the image with iconoclastic soap bubbles bursting upon the musicians' noses. We finally saw the perfect communion of a trio customary to dangerous invitations and a guest offering everything he could give, and this, without the slightest attempt at domination on either side. We live that moment when in fact, four real people at the height of their art, aware of their responsibilities are creating, in situ, the image of a world as it should be.
It would be pointless and probably stupid, with such an eclectic program, to talk about the best concert of the festival. Other moments, in their differences, reached a similar degree of collusion and collective creation. However, due to the spectacular side of their performance, allied to a very real musical intelligence, Maretau Rouge's encounter with Keiji Haino was undoubtedly the most astonishing performance I have had the opportunity to see in a very long time. Of course, the day before, "Haino & Barre Phillips" duo may have delved deeper into our consciousness, but the power of this quartet remained unmatched until the end of this 2009 edition.
Joël Pagier (Improjazz) translated by Élisa Trocmé
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«Concert 2009» is another gem from the archive of French sound engineer-producer-label manager-analog synthesizer wizard Jean-Marc Foussat. It documents the meeting of the French experimental trio Marteau Rouge (red hammer in French) – guitarist-vocalist Jean-François Pauvros (of the art-rock band Catalogue), drummer Makoto Sato (who lives in France and collaborated before with Joe McPhee, Linda Sharrock, Itaru Oki and Michel Kristof) and Foussat on VC3S synth, vocals and toys, with Haino, here playing the electric guitar and vocalizes. The concert took place at Marquee of Luz-Saint-Sauveur, during the Jazz in Luz festival in July 2009.
The electro-acoustic, free improvising Marteau Rouge was founded in 1998 but its discography is quite slim. The trio collaborated before with British sax hero Evan Parker («Live», In situ, 2009), but «Concert 2009» is a totally different kind of collaboration. Haino arrived to this meeting a day after he played with double bass legend Barre Phillips, with who he already collaborated before.
«Concert 2009» is a brutal and noisy psychedelic storm that clashes and trashes doom and gloom territories. But throughout the massive, turbulent and thunderous waves surface many fragile and poetic gestures, few are even sound as delicate chamber ones, that color this super-intense and powerful meeting with fascinating sonic imagination and arresting and suggestive sounds. The immediate dynamics of this ad-hoc quartet are organic, with no attempt by Haino or by Marteau Rouge to dominate each other. It is clear that these four musicians sought the most challenging and dangerous, risk-taking collisions tight from the beginning of this performance and that this powerful meeting was headed into a fantastic cathartic meltdown.
Eyal Hareuveni
Keiji Haino (el.g, v), Jean-François Pauvros (el.g, v), Makoto Sato (dr), Jean-Marc Foussat (synth VC3S, v, toys)
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