Lighting up- ciné-concert Arfi

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LIGHTING UP ! Workshop de Lyon meet Heavy Spirits (South Africa)
Photography : Jurgen Schadeberg

Through a video montage of Jurgen Schadeberg’s pictures, the Lighting Up ! project proposes a two voice – two quartet – musical view, on the works of a great South African photographer.
Jurgen Schadeberg (freelance photographer since 1950 for Time Magazine, the Sunday Times, Black Star…) is considered as one of the main witnesses of the years of Apartheid. Some of his pictures are known worldwide, though many of them can still be discovered.
Capturing everyone's attention from start to finish* », the show appears like a movie concert, one of the specialities of ARFI’s (Potemkine, Paris Girls, The Cabinet of Dr Caligari…) : the musicians play in interaction with a projection of Schadeberg’s pictures.
The music, very written or frankly improvised, brings out the strenght and the feelings of the pictures. It accompanies an extraordinary journey that the photographer has lead through South Africa, from the mystic Kalahari tribe rituals to today Soweto’s youth freed from the Apartheid.
Lighting Up ! was premiered during ‘A South Arfican Odyssey’ , on the 1st of October 2003 at Sunnyside Conference Hall in Pretoria, on the 2nd of October at Kippies in Johannesbourg, and on the 3rd of October at Regina Mundi Church, in Soweto.
*SABC news’ article (cf. Press cuts)

Workshop de Lyon (more >>)
Jean Aussanaire :: saxophons
Jean-Paul Autin :: saxophons, bass clarinet
Jean Bolcato :: double bass, voice
Christian Rollet :: drums

Heavy Spirits (South Africa) ::
Gershwin Nkosi :: trumpet
Paul Vranas :: tenor saxophon
Vincent Molomo :: bass
Gerland Selolo :: drums

Jurgen Schadeberg (South Africa) ::
Photography, vidéo

Thierry Cousin :: sound engineer

more >> Le Workshop de Lyon

DISCO’ARFI :“Lighting up !” (Cd AM036 - 2004)
"Township Jazz” (DVD AM038)

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PRESS CUT
“The ‘Workshop de Lyon’ arrangements carry at once a fleshly and joyful lyrism, close to the South African anthems’ sensibility. Familiar with movie-concerts, Arfi’s musicians are used to create a tension through a few sound short stories, to find out some landscapes propitious to secret walks, with a deep and airy dramatization.”
(Thierry Lepin, Jazzman, sept 2004)