ORIANE LACAILLE TRIO (Reunion / France)
| Oriane Lacaille | voice, aouicha, ukulele |
| Yann-Lou Bertrand | double bass, trumpet |
| Héloïse Divilly | percussion |
Oriane Lacaille, singer-songwriter and percussionist from Reunion Island, presents iViV, the first album under her name. In the Lacaille family, the accordionist René was one of the renewers of Reunionese music in the 1970s, with his accomplices Alain Péters and Danyel Waro. Oriane his daughter, who grew up in France but is steeped in the island’s maloya and sega ryhthms, is perpetuating this family tradition which, in the generations before hers, was forbidden to women. Having also inherited the idea that music is a collective gesture that embraces the community, she has long expressed herself with others, notably within the duos Titi Zaro (with Coline Linder) and Bonbon Vodou (with JereM Boucris).
“Iviv” her first solo album
Oriane Lacaille, singer-percussionist who also plays ukulele and aouicha (a small gnawa guembri), is not alone on iViV, for which she composed most of the tracks. She is accompanied by Héloïse Divilly on drums and Yann-Lou Bertrand on double bass, trumpet, & flute. They also bring the vocal harmonies to her songs which are underlaid by the undulating ternary rhythms of Reunion Island. She has also invited some great guests: Piers Faccini, who encouraged her to take the plunge, Leyla McCalla, Laura Cahen, Loy Ehrlich (Hadouk Trio) and of course René Lacaille. With the sweetness of nursery rhymes or the intensity of trance music, Oriane Lacaille sings about joy and about rage, assimilating her family heritage into her own affirmed personality; iViV marks the blossoming of her Creole trajectory.
A worthy heir to the renovators of Creole music, Oriane Lacaille sings her joys and her anger, borrowing sometimes from the sweetness of nursery rhymes and sometimes from the strength of percussion and the energy of trance.
A warm voice, a relentless groove on percussion and ukulele, Oriane Lacaille has been making her way for several years. Leaving the shores of song, she returned to the terrain of maloya and sega to compose falsely simple refrains, on lyrics that intertwine French and Creole to invent a bilingual poetry. It is with her freshness and her grain of sunshine that she tells us about femininity, motherhood, migration, slavery, but also and above all, love. Through her songs, it is all the beauty of Reunion and Creole culture that is offered to us.
REVIEWS
Télérama fff
„ Dieses idyllische und reisende Debütalbum offenbart es heute in zwei Sprachen in schmelzender Fülle.”
Jazz News
„Eine prächtige Hommage an diese Kultur, die immer wieder neue, gemischte Horizonte ins Auge fasst. Fesselnd.”
“Wenn seine reine Stimme, manchmal melancholisch, manchmal sonnig, dieses Mal seinen geheimen Garten offenbart, ist es auch ein Atemzug voller Menschlichkeit, denn bei den Lacailles
Fip
bedeutet Musik nur Teilen.”
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FrancoFans
Oriane lehnt ihr kreolisches Erbe ab und bietet eine subtile und fesselnde Mischung aus Maloya, Sega, Folk und Gesang, die die Süße von Kinderreimen und die Leidenschaft von Trance abwechselt.”
Die Welt
„Ein erstes Album voller Poesie […] Mit Volksmusik, gemischt mit Einflüssen, vereint iViV einen Strauß melancholischer und belebender Lieder. Französisch und Kreolisch existieren nebeneinander oder vermischen sich, traumhafte Bilder und Handlungsstränge des Lebens.”
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