« À l’Ouest », The 4th repertoire of Les Incendiaires

Armed with nothing but their wind instruments and a few makeshift percussion items, the trio Les Incendiaires takes on the compositions of Ennio Morricone for the films of Sergio Leone.

With The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, For a Fistful of Dollars, My Name Is Nobody, and the Once Upon a Time trilogy, deserts and canyons are brought to life in the rugged landscapes of the imaginary folklore.

For this new repertoire, the work on the percussion set was guided by the score. By identifying the necessary sounds, percussion and recycling specialist Alfred Spirli advised on the selection of instruments. A builder, Fred Soria, designed an installation allowing the trio to play wind instruments and percussion simultaneously, using their unoccupied limbs.

The genesis of Les Incendiaires

A group that has been part of ARFI for 10 years, Les Incendiaires have performed in France, Vietnam, Morocco, Finland, and the Baltic States.

The story of Les Incendiaires began at the 20th-anniversary concert of the Apollo trio in 2012. The fascination with the innovative instrumentation of the Apollo trio (composed of Jean-Luc Capozzo, Jean-Paul Autin, and Alain Gibert) sparked the desire in the new generation of ARFI musicians to develop their own personal interpretation of it.

The three talented musicians behind this new venture, Guillaume Grenard, Olivier Bost, and Eric Vagnon, first came together in 2013 during the Avignon Festival, giving birth to the cine-performance M. Méliès & Géo Smile. Their collaboration in this performance and other ARFI projects quickly evolved into the creation of an entirely new musical repertoire for Les Incendiaires.

A lyrical, generous, boundary-free, and uninhibited repertoire... imbued with a folkloric imagination. This musical encounter culminated in the release of their first album in 2016.

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