Kyrie Kristmanson

Kyrie Kristmanson is a young Canadian singer songwriter born in Ottawa and now based in Paris. The musician has released two self-produced albums to date followed by Origins of Stars, her first international release on the NØ FORMAT! label in 2010. Also a trumpet and a classical guitar player, singing in English and in French, Kyrie Kristmanson’s stripped-down songs fuse a modern folk music with jazz and classical elements.

Quantum physics suggests that the activity of subatomic particles reveals the existence of parallel worlds: universes in which all possible alternate histories and futures of our world exist simultaneously. With these songs, Kyrie hypothesizes what a folk music tradition from one of these parallel realities might sound like.

Kyrie Kristmanson is a Canadian singer/songwriter, trumpet player, guitarist and scholar of medieval music. Classically trained, Kyrie began composing at a young age and toured the Canadian Folk Festival circuit as a teenager. Public and college radio stations widely promoted her first two self-released albums and this earned her the Best Young Performer’s Award at the Canadian Folk Music Awards in 2008 and the Colleen Peterson Award for song writing in 2009. The same year, Emily Loizeau, a celebrated French pop star, invited her to open for her Pays Sauvage tour in France. While on tour, the renowned label NØ FØRMAT! offered Kyrie a recording contract and she relocated to Paris for the release of her Origin of Stars album in 2010.

On "Venus Rising", the trio SR9 and singer Kyrie Kristmanson bring works by female composers from different centuries - from Hildegard von Bingen to Kate Bush - to new life with their arrangements.

Skygge is the story of metamorphoses: from music to data, from neuron networks to musical notes, and from a scientific project to a pop-music album. Benoit Carré, composer, author and producer, shares with François Pachet, director of the Flow-Machines project, the same taste for melodic, harmonic and timbral twists, that make pop songs catchy and compelling.

C’est une belle aventure avant même de commencer. / It's a great adventure before we even start. Musicians meet.

Those familiar with Ravel's talent for transcription will not be surprised to hear his music played here on the marimba! In "Ravel Influence(s)", Trio SR9 and guests Kyrie Kristmanson, Shani Diluka and Astrig Siranossian explore his various sources of inspiration, from Spain to Russia.

Those familiar with Ravel's talent for transcription will not be surprised to hear his music played here on the marimba! In "Ravel Influence(s)", Trio SR9 and guests Kyrie Kristmanson, Shani Diluka and Astrig Siranossian explore his various sources of inspiration, from Spain to Russia. The program therefore includes transcriptions of works by Rachmaninoff, Fauré and De Falla, as well as the world premiere recording of Prisme for three prepared marimbas by Colombian composer Daniel Arango-Prada.