Jean Marie Machado

This record is the result of a particularly inspired approach. An eclectic composer and a pianist of a rare elegance, Jean-Marie Machado has accustomed us, since the eighties, to opening the doors of modern jazz to other musical worlds.

"Jean-Marie Machado has brought together an orchestra composed solely of percussion on stage. All that strikes, rubs, collides, pinches, scratches itself, is scraped on the stage. We are in the paradise of percussion. There are: marimbas, xylophones, glockenspiel, vibraphone, cymbals (each percussionist has one or more), bells (bamboo or shellfish, or other) Tibetan bowls, and multiple drums. These percussions bring together skin, wood, metal, which gives a mix of sounds, timbres and textures.

Jean Cocteau wrote the Beautiful Indifferent in 1940 for an actress Edith Piaf. For the first time, the Virêvolte ensemble puts it to music and commissions Jean-Marie Machado, with the support of the Cocteau Committee, to create a tailor-made jazz opera. It will be directed by Emmanuel Olivier and premiered in December 2021 at the Center of the Banks of the Marne and then performed throughout France.