ROUGE (Madeleine Cazenave Trio) - Festival Parfum de Jazz

The young French band Rouge belongs to the "new trio" category, and today they've released "Vermeilles", a second album that is both deeply coherent and masterful in its project, and yet insituatable.

Founded at the end of 2018 by pianist Madeleine Cazenave in the company of double bassist Sylvain Didou and drummer Boris Louvet, Rouge will quickly have carved out a place for itself in the richly diverse landscape of new jazz in France.

His selection in 2020 for the Jazz Migration program was an opportunity to test his compositions in a series of concerts.

Undeniably fierce and introverted, tender and violent in the same inflection, Madeleine Cazenave's neo-romantic sensibility with hyper-contemporary accents marks the trio's aesthetic orientations.

By joining forces with Label Bleu to release "Vermeilles", a second album as ambitious as it is seductive, ROUGE has taken a new step forward. While the ingredients of their first album, Derrière les paupières, are essentially the same, the trio has undeniably gained in maturity and collective mastery.

Moving from minimalist, cottony grooves imbued with a kind of pop melancholy (Feu, Louves, Move in), to hybrid compositions with contrasting movements that hint at more or less subliminal references to classical music (Granit, Tempête) and even chanson (the beautiful Strawberries in the Dark), ROUGE reasserts the singularity of its universe with force and talent.

Prices: 21* / 25 € - 7 € for under 25s and PSH - Free for under 15s

*: Reduced rate applicable to the unemployed / Groups of 10 people / Members / Donors / Festival trainees; a receipt will be requested at the concert reception desk.

Musicians :
Madeleine Cazenave: piano and composition
Sylvain Didou: double bass
Boris Louvet: drums