Voix Jean-Claude Acquaviva, François Aragni, Jean-Do Bianco, Petr’Antò Casta, Paul Giansily, Maxime Vuillamier
Guitare Sandrine Luigi
A Filetta est un ensemble vocal corse bien connu dans le registre de la polyphonie. Depuis plus de 40 ans, il sillonne la planète, va de rencontre en rencontre et construit des répertoires qu’il diffuse largement. Si le chant a cappella est son domaine de prédilection, il travaille aussi de temps à autres avec des instrumentistes.
Le nouvel album paru en octobre 2023 s’intitule « i balconi », les balcons, comme un clin d’œil à ces appendices de nos demeures, premier pas, premiers regards au-delà de nos mondes clos et circonscrits ; les balcons, cet endroit d’où l’on découvre que l’on n’est pas seuls… Des textes qui disent simplement le destin commun, notre commune humanité : l’amour, la mort, la résilience, l’histoire de nos sillons, les mers de nos utopies, les voyages de notre grandeur et l’amertume de notre finitude…
Un corpus de chants polyphoniques où les voix seront autant d’instruments au service du mot ; une seule guitare, à l’écriture soignée mais dans un grand dépouillement, contribue à donner à l’ensemble, un format de chanson.
Un concert qui convie l’auditeur, en toute intimité, à pénétrer l’univers doux et feutré d’un répertoire né durant la singulière et inédite période du confinement.
Composition : Jean-Claude Acquaviva
Auteurs : Marcel Acquaviva, Jean-Claude Acquaviva, Petru Santucci, Laurent Gaudé
1er juillet : MARSEILLE - Château Saint Antoine - Festival Les heures bleues
21h00 : Première partie : Etudiants de l'IESM - Chants corses
21h45 : A Filetta & Sandrine Luigi
LIBERATION
“… A FILETTA have become one of the premier groups in Corsican traditional music thanks to their tenacity, knowledge of Corsican polyphony, above all their constant renewal and the openness of their island repertoire to offshore influences...”
LE MONDE
“A show for eleven dancers, seven singers and a musician in which Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui returns to a visual sobriety centred on the dancing body, with a great deal of work on movement and rhythm. The work is also sublimated by the breathtaking majesty of the songs of Corsican vocal ensemble A Filetta and Libanese singer Fadia Tomb El-Hage. (...) The seven voices fill the space like gently blowing up a balloon. A penetration, full of finesse, with a limpid polyphonic texture and an elastic magnitude which takes in both the traditional Corsican and the oriental repertoires of the artists.
L’HUMANITE
“Far from fixing the score, the group's polyphony finds its force, on the contrary, in the life and emotions generated by work on the voice timbres of each of its members. Guttural sounds, nasal musicality in certain syllables, mix of intonations... All the art of A Filetta's singers is reinforced by a complex harmony of which only they have the secret.”
L’EXPRESS
"A FILETTA's voices speak to the skin as much as to the ear... A Filetta sing the soul of their island with a universal talent.”
LE NOUVEL OBSERVATEUR
“They are one of the most sumptuous of Corsican polyphonic groups that can be heard... Without being untrue to themselves, A FILETTA have been able to open their immemorial art to other forms of expression, notably by working on film music with the composer Bruno Coulais…”
LE FIGARO
“A Filetta, or the Corsican universe”. “A Filetta conquer new aesthetic territories and invent new forms.”
LA TERRASSE
“Independent and creative, A Filetta reaffirm their refusal to let themselves be reduced to being the guardians of the temple of the island's vocal art, fixed and devoted only to heritage, but rather give life to an inspired ensemble, certainly rooted in their native land but all the better to keep their nose to the wind, or as is the case today, look to the sky like the fern from which they have taken their name.”
MONDOMIX
“A Filetta, the open song”. “The seven Corsican singers of the polyphonic group A Filetta have pursued a demanding but open road since 1978, linking an ageless oral culture to written traditions, without forgetting to go out and meet the world."
