Attica Blues Big Band, the project - Planete-Aurora

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.
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