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SUMMARY:Radio Vostok settles for an evening at the Auberge des Vergers
  to make you live the exclusive concert of Gauthier Toux - For a word 
 (visit ( www.radiovostok.ch )

Created in 2017 during a carte-blan
 che residency at the Cully jazz festival, For a word was born out of a
  musical love at first sight. Gauthier Toux brings together Lucerne si
 nger Léa Maria Fries, Geneva drummer Valentin Lietchi and French bass
 ist Julien Herné (Vincent Peirani, Eric Legnini, Axel Bauer).

Crea
 ted in 2017 during a carte-blanche residency at the Cully jazz festiva
 l, For a word was born out of a musical love at first sight. Gauthier 
 Toux brings together Lucerne singer Léa Maria Fries, Geneva drummer V
 alentin Lietchi and French bassist Julien Herné (Vincent Peirani, Eri
 c Legnini, Axel Bauer).

The musicians question the ambivalence of t
 he complexity of musical language and its ease of touch, moving the au
 dience - combining the discourse of the notes with the power of the wo
 rd. They play with the sound material and its phrases, punctuating the
 m with a few musical memories (that of Eddie James' song "Son" Hou
 se, which mixes with the exchanges of "Grinnin' in your face").


 
Never yielding to the ease of using the word as a simple case, For a 
 World tames it, sublimates it, dries it up, uses it literally or as a 
 musical effect, making the voice an instrument like any other.

The 
 use and the place left to the voice distil tenuous moments and on a th
 read, always close to the break, where the word ends and merges, fades
  and transcends itself in pure sound. English, German, French... the l
 anguages follow one another and tell a story, sometimes performative (
 these few notes, out of frame, which "fly away", alone in "Princess") 
 or disjointed and metaphorical. The quartet enjoys sound nebulae, sump
 tuous jazz escapades, as much as they do frankly pop melodies that sou
 nd like hits.

The music is convulsive or appears with impressionist
 ic touches. The treatment of breath and silence, superbly mastered, gi
 ves the whole its unity. We were warned at the introduction: "(...) we
 nn Worte nicht ausreichen, ausweichen auf Klang", "if words are not en
 ough, dodge the sound". For a word is therefore not thought of as a b
 and with a female singer, and refrains from clichés of the genre. The
  roles are interchanged in titles that sometimes follow one another ab
 ruptly: upsetting, stripped, convulsive, majestic or threatening...


 
In this whimsical assemblage, Gauthier Toux manages to create emotion
 s that run through the listener without him being able to grasp them c
 ompletely - lugged around and sometimes mishandled in a jubilant way. 
 We will try to understand and decipher the discourse that runs through
  For a word to sum it up in one word, but that would be to miss what i
 t manages to tell us without saying it - the capacity of each person t
 o feel and interpret the music as he or she sees fit. Through the filt
 er of his or her imagination and sensitivity, the listener will grasp 
 this "word" with a sense of rightness or misunderstanding - in the ima
 ge, finally, of our daily exchanges.

https://gauthiertoux.com/
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 bergedesvergers.ch
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