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HORS-PISTE TRIO

The result of an unlikely collaboration, this Franco-Swiss trio consists of musicians of three generations who come from some of the diverse influences which surround Alpine musical traditions, and who resolutely want to blow the dust off the word “tradition”.

The Hors-piste trio at Paysalp in the Dojo at Viuz-en-Sallaz

Musical groups get together as a result of chance contacts and discovered affinities, and that’s what happened with these three musicians of different ages but shared interests. The ardour of youth, the wisdom of age... or the opposite? In any case, they share a desire to mix styles, to surprise and to seduce.

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Jean-Marc Jacquieragain? you will say to me. He is everywhere, this fellow! It’s because he diversifies, he moves forward, always in search of new musicalities while at the same time remaining within the Alpine tradition which is so dear to his heart, with his hurdy-gurdy, his accordions and the Alpine horn. No, don’t count on it, you won’t find La Kinkerne here yet again! But a little of it, even so... It is from the foundation of Jean-Marc’s years of collecting traditional music in the Mont Blanc region that the music is formed, re-forms and then transforms itself to inform the vision that we create for ourselves of traditional music, and what it can be for our modern ears or those of the young.

Jean-Marc Jacquier during his “tour of the bistros” in April 2014, celebrating 40 years of La Kinkerne

Yves Cerf is the man of world music, of jazz and of improvisation. In his hands, traditional pieces of music take on the rhythm of swing and become a dimension of world music. No one better than he could have followed the path his career has taken. He studied the violin at the Conservatoire of Geneva; then he learnt to play the quena (Andean flute), and finally he devoted himself to the saxophone (his first public appearance was as a clown in the Médrano Circus!). Yves has played with the Chileans Isabel and Angel Parra (children of Violeta Parra) and with Los Jairas, the emblematic Bolivian group founded by the Swiss clarinetist Gilbert Favre (Violeta’s husband). He has written music for numerous performances, including films and plays.

Yves Cerf at the festival « Alpentone” at Altdorf in August 2011

Bruno Duval, the youngest – not yet in his forties, is the dynamo of the trio. Percussionist-inventor-explorer, curious about everything, he constantly comes up with new ideas, new projects. He studied music in England and now moves between France and Switzerland. Bruno is open to the world. His percussion kit consists, as one would expect, of large and snare drums, tom drum and cymbals – normal ones! – but also milk churns and cowbells.