The repertoire produced today by this vocal sextet is a faithful reflection of what is, since the beginning of the 1980s’, its «forward walk » : a trajectory outlining a movement initiated in a secular orality and asserting itself in the twists and turns of a writing without complex, freed from any filial obligation. Sacred music stands alongside profane songs with multiple influences, films scores with Bruno Coulais, creations for Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui’s choreographies, choruses for an antique tragedy or pieces from a requiem requested by the Saint-Denis Festival.
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© Armand Luciani
A FILETTA IN CONCERT
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© Armand Luciani
In this repertoire of sacred songs, A Filetta gives to hear a cappella polyphonies which have punctuated religious life on the island since immemorial times. From archaic songs coming from oral tradition to contemporary creations, the singers highlight a memory of hope which reminds us of the fact that our human condition remains in our ability to rise beyond darkness…
© Armand Luciani
A' CORE DATU: MEETING-CONCERT
An "immersion" in the history of polyphony through A Filetta's singular artistic career and its creations. An exchange between the audience and A Filetta and a "linving" and "singing" lecture on 40 years of musical journey.
© Armand Luciani
LUMIO — A FILETTA, ABDULLAH MINIAWY ET PETER CORSER
La 32e édition des « Rencontres de chants polyphoniques » de Calvi a vu naître, entre l’un des plus grands groupes de création polyphonique, A Filetta, et le chanteur hypnotique Abdullah Miniawy accompagné par Peter Corser au saxophone, une rencontre qui fera certainement date.
Une incroyable alchimie entre des artistes dont le parcours révèle la curiosité et la volonté de donner à leur musique, toutes les couleurs du partage ! Une étrange osmose faite de voix qui semblent venues du fond des âges pour tisser à ce carrefour qu’est la Méditerranée éternelle de nouveaux rêves, de nouvelles sonorités tout en se faisant l’écho d’antiques civilisations issues de l’Orient profond. Des souffles et des timbres qui semblent s’être entendus et mêlés par-delà montagnes et déserts, depuis des temps immémoriaux…
De ce moment qui vibre encore dans les cœurs, est née l’envie d’aller plus loin pour faire émerger un métissage nouveau fait d’abandons tout autant que de conquêtes ; un chant nouveau, viscéral et généreux où chacun existe parce que tous embrassent et approuvent.
Co-production : Festival Les Traversées - Abbaye de Noirlac, Centre Culturel de Rencontre, Bonlieu - Scène Nationale Annecy, Cité de la Musique de Marseille, Théâtre de Cornouaille – Scène Nationale de Quimper, Maison de la Culture de Bourges - Scène Nationale, Rencontres de Chants Polyphoniques de Calvi, Centre Culturel Natale Rochiccioli – Cargese, Théâtre de Propriano
© Armand Luciani
CLAIR-OBSCUR — A FILETTA AND CONSTANTINOPLE
In this common repertoire, both of the ensembles meet in order to create an enchanting sonic painting in which light and shadow mix. Corsican polyphony by A Filetta as well as songs and Persian art music orchestrated by Kiya Tabassian will come together in a deeply moving concert.
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CONVERSATION(S) — A FILETTA AND FADIA TOMB EL-HAGE
On the one hand the captivating and velvet tones of Fadia Tomb El-Hage, on the other the voices of the A Filetta choir.
In this show a capella appears in all its purity. Sacred and profane songs, sung in Corsican, Arabic or Syriac, they bring together two universes and musical traditions of which the osmosis is a result of a great ability to listen and a perfect complementarity between the artists.If each of them keeps their specificity, these conversations open imaginary spaces which are gently traced through the voices' melismata and the fusion of timbres.
From this encounter was born a unique symbiosis, a limpid polyphony, a poetic and timeless harmony which fuses Corsican and middle-eastern repertories.
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- Letterella
- Partenza astuta
- Notte tana
- Maroccu biancu
- Qolo d'Hut ahay rsyme
- Letterella
- Partenza astuta
- Notte tana
- Maroccu biancu
- Qolo d'Hut ahay rsyme
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© Sébastien Cholier
DANCE MEMORY, DANCE — A FILETTA, PAOLO FRESU AND DANIELE DI BONAVENTURA
A musical and vocal work with as its theme the complementary and contrasting perspectives of two men, both islanders, both exceptional and having marked the twentieth century: Aimé Césaire, writer, poet and playwright from Martinique and Jean Nicoli, a teacher and resistance fighter who was executed in 1943 by the fascist Italian occupying forces. The two men had in common their political engagement and humanism, notably through their judgement of colonialism.
Corsicans and Italians, polyphonists and jazzmen, all deep rooted musicians, voice, trumpet and bandoneon contribute to bringing out the ideals but also the dreams of these “cloud princes” by offering a mixed music that belongs to no-one precisely because it belongs to everyone.
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© Karl Heinz Sollbauer
ARCHINCANTO — A FILETTA ET CONDUCTUS
Their meeting gave rise to a world in which constrasts harmonise and where thee popular inflections of the oral tradition upheld by A Filetta and the classical harmony of the Conductus strings weave an original pattern of colours. The sacred and profane, the popular and the scholarly, rather than being in opposition, actually complement each other marvelously.
© Christophe Charpenel
THE WAKE-UP CALL: A PERFECT BLEND OF GENRES — A FILETTA ET ANDY EMLER
When writing meets oral tradition to imagine a new original musical language. Great soloists and improvisers dedicated to vocal polyphony, and great singers dedicated to instrumentalists.
A coherent musical journey where everyone finds his place, where everyone has his moment, where everyone enjoys listening to each other. Indeed, this work evolves around altruism and curiosity which are aroused by our differences, these wonderful cultural sustenances that are exchanges and respect.
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