Member Since: 18/02/2007
Band Website: nounya.com
Band Members:
Naïssam JALAL
- flute, nay, voice
Yann PITTARD
- oud, guitar, fx
new album To Resistances is now available !
« Naïssam Jalal et Yann Pittard relient traditions orientales, classique, jazz et électro, en tirant de paisibles mais entrainantes arabesques taillées dans l’impro ». (LYLO, n°286)
le nouvel album de NOUN YA
Aux Résistances
est disponible chez les disquaires et libraires indépendants:
Al kindi - Paris (05è)
Ishtar - Paris (05è)
le calife de belleville - Paris (10è)
l'invit à lire - Paris (10è)
le silence de la rue - Paris (11è)
souffle continu - Paris (11è)
le dépôt - Paris (11è)
le merle moqueur du 104 - Paris (19è)
le merle moqueur - Paris (20è)
monte en l'air - Paris (20è)
envie de lire - Ivry (94)
folie d'encre - Montreuil (93)
downtown music gallery - New York
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Influences:
NOUN YA
More than a duo
Naïssam and Yann independently freed themselves from their formal classical training and went searching for different types of music. While she was discovering the joy of brass band in Mali, or studying nay at the Arabic Music Institute of Damascus, he was discovering the dotara (bengali mandoline) in India. Then, with plenty of music in their baggage, they met one day in 2004. Together they played, improvised, composed and then … traveled.
The duo NOUN YA was born out of their strangely mixed notes. She made him discover the smell of chicha, he made her discover the taste of milk that came straight from the cow. They have since played on all types of stages and all sorts of places from Paris to Bamako, Egypt to Mexico, Japan to Lebanon.
Sensuous and bewitching, ethereal and velvety,
The electro-acoustic compositions of NOUN YA are the result of an encounter between oriental traditional music, classical music, modern music and jazz. On stage, they improvise with magic, giving the illusion that they are more than two. Their energy is generous, the emotion they create is complete. Their repertory is the expression of their freedom.
Naïssam Jalal and Yann Pittard's biographies
* Naïssam’s biography
Naïssam Jalal was born to syrian parents in Paris in 1984. Aged of 6 years old, she entered the conservatory to study classical flute. At the age of 18 Naissam left the conservatory after discovering improvisation. This was followed by a tour in Mali with the funky brass band Tarace Boulba.
At 19, she decided to leave France and go to Syria in search of her origins. After some time studying nay (classical arabic flute) at the Institute of Arabic Music in Damascus, she settled in Cairo for the next three years. There she met Fathi Salama with whom she played regularly in the most prestigious theatres. Later she participated in the creation of the group El Dor El Awal with whom she recorded two albums. She played all kinds of music with all kinds of musicians and developed a very particular sound between east and west. In 2006 she recorded the album Bakash with Miles Jay and Colter Frazier witch is distributed in all Middle East, France and United States.
Since her return to France, she performs with the lebanese rapper Rayess Bek, in France, Germany and Marocco… In march 2008, she performed in the New Oriental Sounds Festival in Beyrouth with many artists from Lebanon, Egypt and Palestine and in july of the same year she participated in the Malta’s Arts Festival with the egyptian oud player Hazem Chahine.
* Yann's biography
Yann Pittard is a musician from Bretagne, born in 1983. He began to play the guitar in 1993, and performed many concerts very young with his own bands. He discovered improvisation at Uzeste Musical Festival and played with Marc Perrone and André Minvielle. In 2000 he's been the laureat of Vannes Jazz Festival with the blues-band "Sultans of strings". He moved to Paris to study music at the C.I.M., and then, he decided to go to India to discover bengali traditional music with "Baul" virtuoso Nimai Chan Baul (dotara, voice). Back to France, He entered the Conservatory of Paris (jazz & classical orchestration...) and got his Diplom of Harmony with Bernard Maury. In 2004, he spended time in Cairo to learn the oud (arabian lute) and egyptian classical music with Hazem Chahine and Abdu Dagher.
Inspired by music without borders, he has developed some original orchestral techniques & has collaborated extensively with Rayess Bek as well as composing original musics for films (Cousteau...) and performing with several bands (Paban das Baul group with Cheick Tidiane-Seick & Marque Gilmore , collective NoVisa featuring Malik Mezzadri or collaborating with celtic Plantec brothers, Ky with Maki Nakano...) from Mexico to Tokyo via Casablanca, Cairo & Calcutta.
Sounds Like:
NOUN YA on New TV (Lebanon, 2009)
NOUN YA on O'TV (Lebanon, march 2009)
HORIA. Live à l'espace Japon. 25/11/2007. Paris.
Type of Label: Unsigned