A HUE ET A DIA
L’histoire du groupe
Depuis 2011, A Hue et à Dia réunit cinq chanteuses autour de chants traditionnels. Attirées tout d’abord par la musique des Balkans, elles travaillent l’énergie et le timbre caractéristiques de ces musiques. Puis, progressivement, elles collectent des chants traditionnels au fil de rencontres autour de chez elles. Des personnes qui parlent différentes langues et viennent de différents pays ou régions de France. Celles-ci leur transmettent non seulement un chant mais un bout de leur culture, de leurs histoires de vie.
Loin d’une interprétation puriste de ce vaste répertoire, À Hue et à Dia réarrange, s’autorise quelques pas de côté, improvise, toujours au service d’un son d’ensemble puissant et singulier. L’improvisation en circle song nourrit leurs polyphonies, puisant leur inspiration dans les influences musicales de chacune. S’y ajoutent de multiples percussions qui viennent ancrer encore davantage la présence de leurs voix.
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The Group’s journey
It was around improvisation that the singers met in 2011. No words, just the voice as a vector of emotion and energy. Circle songs are a form of improvisation that they love, drawing inspiration from the musical influences of each of them.
To go “à hue et à dia” is to go alternately in opposite directions. Like the carters of yesteryear, A Hue et à Dia finds its way from one direction to another, immersed in one signer then another.
Very quickly the singers wanted to mix their improvisations with traditional songs, in order to draw sound material from different cultural sources.
Particularly attracted to Balkan music, in 2013 they went to Belgrade to work with Svetlana Spajic, renowned Serbian singer who passes on vocal traditions from the border regions of Serbia and Bosnia. This was a decisive meeting for the group which gave birth to their desire to extend their approach by learning traditional songs orally, through their different encounters, and then to make them their own.
Since 2013, their repertoire has grown as a result of their encounters with singers of Romanian, Turkish, Malagasy, Iraqi, Italian origin. Improvisation remains present in the artistic approach of the group and compositions are born.
