For the Balkan fusion group, this concert on Saturday, April 16 at 9 p.m., at the Médiator, is an opportunity to invite local artist friends on stage. Interview with trombonist Olivier Llugany, originally from Perpignan.
Olivier Llugany, happy to play at home?
Yes, of course, and above all happy to finally be able to play Pick again, after three postponements due to the Covid!
In La Caravane Passe, are you a trombonist, fiscorn player, instruments that you learned here?
Yes, I studied trombone at the conservatory of Perpignan before continuing to Paris. I started fiscorn at the age of 14 in the cobla Mil. lenaria. For four years, I have been divided between the Cobla Tres Vents and the Caravan. In this group, I wanted to keep this unique Catalan instrument but also very close to the brass of the Balkan brass bands.
… and representative of the music of the Caravan. What is your style?
Toma Feterman created the group at the end of 2000 and I joined it in January 2001. La Caravane is a big mix of all the music we love: from hip-hop to gipsy funk. Every time we tour the world, we hunt for instruments and meet local musicians. We are inspired by all that. It’s nomadic music.
In La Caravane, are you also a singer?
Yes. I grew up in Elne where I was surrounded by gypsies. I like their music. I wanted to sing like them. For fifteen years, I have represented them a little in the Caravan. But initially, none of us sang in the band. It happened little by little. We created our own Esperanto with words picked up in lots of different languages. Then Toma really got into writing. Today we have great texts. We approach the offbeat point of view of the traveler. With us, there are no borders, but there are messages: by playing everywhere, we understood that, through music, we always managed to get along and share.
Your 6th album “Nomadic Spirit”, released in 2020, contains all of this… and what else?
It’s still an evolution with many collaborations, notably with the Gnawa singer Mehdi Nassouli from Morocco, the gypsy singer Paloma Pradal, the Breton accordionist Jérôme Soulas… All should join us on the Trabendo stage on June 1st in Paris for, finally, a real big standing album release concert!
And this Saturday at the Pick?
We had planned to invite as many local artists as possible to come on stage with us. A. Can and Maxximus will be there. We hope others can come. The first part will be provided by R. Wan, singer of the Java musette rap group, with whom we have often worked. And we invite the spectators to clap their hands, move their buttocks and sing very loudly!
The Caravan returns on May 13
Before a big tour in Algeria in June, the Caravan will return to Perpignan. On May 13, at the Casa Musicale, the group will share the stage with the students of the two CM2 classes of the Joseph-Cortada school, in Saint-Laurent-de-la-Salanque. This concert will indeed be the restitution of a project carried out within the framework of the Orchester à l’école scheme. The children will perform two songs that they will have specially created with Toma Feterman. Already, this Friday, April 15, in the afternoon, in Saint-Laurent-de-la-Salanque, in preview, the musicians of the Caravan and these budding talents will play a few excerpts in front of the parents. of students.
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