Rault

Adaptation du roman, chef d'oeuvre de Yasmina Khadra, premier film d'animation de la comédienne et metteuse en scène de Zabou Breitman, sélection officielle pour la prix 'Un Certain Regard', Cannes 2019. La musique subtile et sagace d'Alexis Rault accompagne les destins tragiques de deux couples alors que l'application de la charia restreint drastiquement les libertés publiques et que des femmes sont lapidées dans la rue.

The album kicks off with "I'll Be There", a full-on guitar assault accented by a rhythm section that does not quit. The title track, "New Day Tonight", is a mid-tempo reverie that's elevated by tremolo guitar and delicate strings. The title came to Michael one night when he was watching an interview of a hockey player after a loss. The player said, "It's a new day tonight, we've got to put the past behind us." Intrigued by the awkwardness of the statement Michael thought it would make a great album title, and shortly after wrote the eponymous tune, which describes a very positive nightlife experience that brings much needed relief from a day of depression. Michael's ability to extract inspiration from a mundane, albeit awkward statement is a testament to his craft. It's a New Day Tonight is a modern classic begging to be played loud with the windows rolled down.

1920. A l'heure où Lénine et les Bolcheviks font régner la Terreur rouge, l'espion français Charles Hirscheim, devenu l'espion allemand Gustav Lerner, est envoyé en mission en Russie. Il s'y fait passer pour un communiste. Il est en réalité à la recherche de la femme qu'il aime, Tamara, jeune danseuse de cabaret qu'il a rencontrée à Berlin et qui a mystérieusement disparu du jour au lendemain…

Eté 1918. Dans un hôpital militaire, un jeune homme se réveille amnésique. Il a tout oublié de son passé, jusqu'à son nom, mais parle aussi bien le français que l'allemand.
Les services secrets français voient en lui l'espion idéal. Ils lui donnent l'identité d'un mort allemand. Mais peut-on être un autre quand pour soi-même on est personne ?
Grande fresque historique et roman d'aventures captivant, où personnages imaginaires et réels se côtoient, La danse des vivants nous entraîne dans une épopée à travers l'Allemagne de Weimar…

Symphony Orchestra is a new group from Maximilian Turnbull and Michael Rault. Both Rault and Turnbull are accomplished songwriters, performers and producers in their own right, with Turnbull leading The Badge Époque Ensemble, playing with the group Darlene Shrugg, and once releasing records under the name Slim Twig and Rault having released several psychedelic rock & roll classics under his own name in the past decade. The pair have worked together in various capacities for many years, writing and recording together on U.S. Girls’ In A Poem Unlimited, and contributing to each other's releases, but the debut LP from Symphony Orchestra (due out May 12th on Telephone Explosion) marks their first release as an official entity.

François Devienne (1759–1803) was a contemporary of Mozart and one of the few virtuosos who didn’t have to flee his own country to get noticed. Born in Joinville, France, the youngest of the 14 children of a saddle maker, Devienne received his formative musical instruction as a choirboy in his hometown and quickly developed into a flute player of formidable gifts, studying with Felix Rault. He was active in Paris as a flautist, bassoonist and composer and played bassoon at the Paris Opera. He was also a sergeant and member of the Military Band of the French Guard, where he was given the responsibility of teaching his military band colleagues’ children in its Free School of Music. After the Revolutionary period, when the Free School became the National Institute of Music, later chartered as the Paris Conservatory in 1795, Devienne was appointed as flute professor, where he taught from 1795 to 1803. He also wrote the Méthode de Flûte Théorique et Pratique (1793), which was reprinted several times and did much to improve the level of French wind music in the late 18th century.