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Influences: Between these albums, these shows, and these tours, I compose, I arrange and I direct for the theatre, the cinema, the TV and the advertising.
With François Delage we create the collection « y a pas d’erreur » used by E=M6, Envoyé spécial, La Marche du Siècle, L'INC, les Guignols de L'info, Thalassa, Ushuaia. I composed for "institutional": Medecins du monde, EDF, Aerospatiale, EEC, IBM, Elf-Sanofi, RATP, the ministry of agriculture, the CEA (atomic energy authority)...
Publicity for: Nestlé " Maxibon ", Entreprendre, The club Med. For the theatre and the circus, Bicentenary of the French Revolution " à vos gardes robe citoyennes ", and " défilé de costumes rêve ô lutions r “created by " El uso matieri ". " The president " of Roger Lombardo played among others and the festival of Avignon and " Dieu merci on ne meurt qu'une fois " stage by Abbots Zamani and played among others the National theatre of Chaillot.
Finally " if you are a movies fan ", some music’s for short and medium-length films: Max le voyou ", director H.P Korchia price about fifteen directors Cannes film festival, " Le route et la déroute ". Director H.P Korchia, " Un garcon et un fille ", director H.P Korchia, " Plein la vue " a film of Patricia Derimais's, price Edgar, price of Toronto. " Night Web ", realization Vincent Vedel, " sexe féminin ". 1st price of the festival of Angers. Director H.P Korchia, " Luc and Marie the film " director
Philippe Boon (prized for the public, the press and the canal +, festival of the short film of Clermont-Ferrand). These films are available at the agency for short films...
Sounds Like: I have had the pleasure to play in
The Olympia, palais des glaces, Zenith of Paris, Cité des sciences et de l'industrie, Beaubourg, Casino of Paris, Bron, on tour in the îles of the Réunion, Guadeloupe, Savoie, Lyon and suburb, Clermont-Ferrand, Brignoles, festival of Jazz of Nice, Bucharest, Studio of the Popular music, Festival of Avignon...
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The Human Touch
Two tightrope walkers on the spree for some thirty years on the wings of music have just conceived a turbulent baby called "The Human Touch", which has set itself without complexe in the improbable confluence of jazz and rock, from Kraftwerk and Jimmy Hendrix.
With guitars, bass, keyboard and vocals, Eric Bensoussan who from the age of fourteen has lived on an uninterrupted wave of musical vagrancy, marked by detours, mime and theatre, composition and song, with his guitar as passport and livelihood... At the battery and percussion, Michel Boiton, who has worked with, accompanied and loved so many groups’ musicians of all calibres, in many countries.
Having worked so long for musicians whose songs they have caught and collected, those which we whistle and hum, to place them in contexts intended to reveal their inmost depths, both accomplices decided to make a break to develop their own melodies. And that has given rise to a wild and carnival-like CD, warping in attentive zouïes and surprising the listener with showers of sounds, clouds of voices, streams of whispers, oceans of various music, triturated, mixed, stretched to infinity. They created a noisy and bizarre object full of resounding silences, within which irreverent poetry moves within a graduated chaos. Countless sounds bustle, break loose, overlap, then mix to compose a surprising musical landscape, before dissipating in a burning magma which clears the last shocks and
the ultimate echos.
Eric Bensoussan tells: " I thought of this record as of the raw art, the art of madmen. We put microphones in my recording studio Adb, at Saint-Vérand in Burgundy. We made only one recording each time, without planning anything, and we kept everything, drums, percussions, guitars and synthesizer, Marcel Aubé's Chinese violin, plus our voices, which I fiddle with backwards and forwards, plus a good measure of harmony, this electronic sound spitter thing. "
On must take time to digest these fragments of Dadaist invoice, where the fate has the best part. " I, who am nevertheless an arranger, did not think about the harmony. I especially tried to captivate the silences. Within the instrumental parts, it is the interconnection which creates the rhythm. The note is
already there before it is played, caught and caressed, and when it stops, the music stays on ……. "
The ten titles, crumbled, torn, scratched and scraped, which follow one another on this CD, navigate between free jazz and concrete music, with a large rhythmic and harmonious complexity, calling to
mind Franck Zappa, King Crimson, and David Bowie.
Eric and Michel also play their opus on stage, together with François Delage, his bass, and with the sound engineer Thierry Cousin, for the technical effects. An enormous pleasure lived like
Madmen!
Yvan Jossen
The Human Touch. « Herbie’s Amps »
Rencontre de deux allumés : Eric Bensoussan (guitare saturée, voix) et Michel Boiton (drum, perc), plus Marcel Aubé (b) & Chinese Violin. Ils nous entraînent dans un monde saisissant qui pourrait faire le bonheur de la Knitting Factory. Un mélange atypique de mélodie, de rythmiques diverses entremêlées de sons venus d’ailleurs, avec bidouillage électronique.
Un délire collectif qui va en s’amplifiant et qui dénote d’un humour corrosif, sans cesse émaillé d’imprévu. Grand Guignol sonore, ou nos soudeurs font crépiter les cordes et les peaux de leurs instruments, avec la complicité d’éléments divers, venus de combinaisons explosives de saturation. Des fous furieux qui se jettent dans le vide sans parachute : plus dingues tu meurs !
Conseillé pour intégrer une clinique de delirium tremens ou pour ollibrius distingués.
Mathieux Gérald JAZZ NOTES
L’AVANT SCENE
Eric Bensoussan, who had imagined for the scenery music of Dieu merci, on ne meurt qu’une fois, of Monique Enckell ( Avant-Scène N°934) smog waves of sonorous, sheets of mystery, has just brought out a CD The Human Touch, which as its name indicates, evokes the notions of spaces touched up by the man. Inhabited with " a grain of Dadaism ", this album will please all those who concretize the abstract and put tactile sensations in
the music.
D. D. Danielle Dumas
Record Label: all label
Type of Label: Indie