Vaguement Godard is the third part of a solo piano trilogy dedicated to cinema music and recorded on the Illusions label. French pianist Stephan Oliva will perform this new program from April 20th to 29th. He will start the tour in Estonia with two concerts at the Jazzkaar festival and then play eight concerts in Finland.
photo by Cecil Mathieu
Stephan Oliva solo tour from April 20th to 29th
ESTONIA
20/04 Viljandi, Pärimumuusika Ait
21/04 Tallinn, Jazz Club No99 / 25th Jazzkaar festival
FINLAND >> kiertuetiedote suomeksi
22/04 Salo, kulttuuritalo KIVA
23/04 Turku, Turun seudun musiikkiopisto
24/04 Loviisa, Keskus Centralen
25/04 Vilppula, Koivuniemi
26/04 Joensuu, Konservatorion sali
27/04 Jämsä, Pokura
28/04 Keravan Seurakuntasali / organised by Kerava Jazz ry
29/04 Loimaa, Taidetalo
The trilogy of solo records of Stephan Olivan on the Illusions label:
Other videos: http://www.stephanoliva.com/ecoute/
More information:
http://www.stephanoliva.com
Biography of Stephan Oliva and press quotes in English
“VAGUEMENT GODARD”
STEPHAN OLIVA , PIANO
This is the problem. We cannot prevent ourselves from doing it. Whatever we think, we always come back to it. At first we had not even thought about it. There was Ghosts of Bernard Herrmann in 2007 and then Film Noir in 2010. Then we thought that we should make a last one. Another One? Really? Yes, to close the trilogy. Al right, but about what?
First, after throwing out ideas, we thought of the Nouvelle Vague. We worked on it for a few months. But it was not working out. Surprisingly, it was too disparate. Or we did not find what we were looking for. Of course, Godard was here, with us. Insidiously, he imposed himself to us. Here is the trilogy: a cinema musician, a cinematographic genre and a film maker. All dear to our hearts.
Godard, it’s the multiplicity. We are now in our fifties, filled with cinema, and we had seen his production in the 60’s on television and in the theaters of the Quartier Latin in Paris, and again during his comeback in 1979 in the first MK2 movie houses. And his soundtracks that we simply could not get out of our minds …But, in the end, these musical desires came from somewhere else, not too far away.
When in 1997 Stéphane Oskeritzian and I bought Stéphan’s Jazz’n (e)motion, none of us knew each other. But what a slap in the face! It haunted us. Thank you Jean-Jacques. Then we found each other. So here it is: we are now working on (among other one) musical projects based on a previous musical project. So what? One can create from anything. Even nothing! And right now we are creating from what we love. Seriously. And yes, that’s the problem. Because we cannot prevent ourselves from doing it.
PHILIPPE GHIELMETTI
Label manager of Illusions Records.
Tour organised in the frame of the French Nordic Jazz Transit, a program of the AJC,
Curator of the program and tour management: Charles Gil, Vapaat äänet
With the support of the French Institute: