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Christophe Leloil http://www.myspace.com/leloil Graduated from the Music Conservatory in Caen in 1997, Christophe has toured and played with (to name a few) Emmanuel Bex, Peter King, Alain Jean- Marie, Stefano Di Battista, Serge Lazarevitch or Eric Barret, Sophie Alour, Pierrick Pedron, Denis Leloup, Gilles Naturel, Karl Jannuska, Alex Saada…and in large ensembles conducted by Maria Schneider, Albert Mangelsdorff (« Franco-allemand de Jazz » from ’97 to ‘99) or Antoine Hervé (UMJ band en 2002). International tours with Electronic Septet de Fred Galliano in US (Knitting Factory NYC), Funk Brass Band ‘URANUS BRUYANT’(US, Europe, Africa). Works regularly with Carine Bonnefoy (quintet & big band « Pepper Pills »), NINE SPIRIT and SIXTINE GROUP led by Raphaël Imbert… Since 2007-2008, Christophe has led two sextet projects under his own name: a tribute to the late master Booker LITTLE based on his 1961 records, and an original: the « E.C.H.O.E.S. » jazz suite was published in January 2009 on AJMIséries and well acclaimed by the critics. A new project « Line4 », new writings in a modern and urban mood, composed for a new quartet featuring the gifted André Charlier on drums will be recorded soon. Simon Sieger http://www.myspace.com/simonsieger Simon Sieger, born in 1986, has played jazz since his early childhood. He was taught the essentials of music and improvisation by his father, Pascal Sieger before moving to Marseille in 2004. At the same time as he attends the jazz class in the Conservatoire of Marseille with Phillipe Renault (he graduates in 2011), he works with Jean-Marc Montera, André Jaume, and Ahmad Compaoré among others. In 2009, he joins the Compagnie Nine Spirit with Raphael Imbert, and has since participated in most of his projects (Improtech with the Ircam and O’max at Lomax, among others). In 2012, he obtains a Master’s degree in the University of Aix-Marseille, doing research on Sun Ra and his Arkestra, and publishes articles in musicological reviews. He is now working with Thomas Weirich in various projects, as well as with Famoudou Don Moye, and Archie Shepp in the Attica Blues Band. He is also starting a doctorate on the history of improvisation, directed by Christine Esclapez (Aix-Marseille Université), and Ivanka Stoianova (Paris VIII). 13
Marion Rampal www.myspace.com/marionrampal Marion Rampal was born in 1980 and grew up in Marseille. During her childhood she studied classical music (piano and flute) and participated to many artistic and pluri-disciplinar projects until her twenties, singing in choirs, song-writting for pop bands, and acting. She studied Jazz at the famous IMFP School in Salon de Provence and at the Marseille ‘s Conservatory, where she was taught improvisation, harmony, voice... by renown french and international Jazz musicians such as Michel Zenino, David Linx, Michel Barrot... Since 2005 she is an active member of French sax player and composer Raphaël Imbert : « la Compagnie Nine Spirit ». She works with the Compagnie but she also develops her own projects and productions. She has released a first album in 2009 «Own Virago», a song-writting project about Women Mythologies, a blend of pop music with an approach on jaz, improvise music and blues patterns in what she would now defends as her own musical style:FREE POP ! She is also singing and song-writing in the pop folk duet WE USED TO HAVE A BAND. She is currently working on a new project «MAIN BLUE», which will be achieved in 2012. It is a vast multi-purpose creation including : research, collaborations with traditional american and mediterranean musicians, voice workshop, composition, stage exploration and recording. This project is based on the concept of «Blues», which aim to explore the «gesture»in Blues through voice, poetic, musical, and choreographic expressions. Marion Rampal is also an active member of Pantheatre, a compagny related to the famous Roy Hart Theatre, led by Enrique Pardo and Linda Wise, collaborating with Izidor Leizinger, Nick Hobbs, Amy Rome...with whom she explores all various possibilities of human voice and free improvisation, along with cultural studies in archetypal psychologie and performance. Since 2003, she has performed in many Jazz festivals and venues all around France, opening for bands Like Dave Liebman, Daniel Humair, David Linx, Steve Swallow...or guest with Manu Katché in 2010:Jazz in Porquerolles, Cité de la Musique de Paris, Festival des 5 Continents, etc... She will record with frech pianist Perrine Mansuy for her the album «Vertigo Songs», edited by Laborie in 2011. She is an active voice and impro teacher, defending an original, provocative, breath and body-based approach, and teaching to many different publics, such as children, old people, as well as professional singers and performers. 14
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