Dossier de présentation

:: AnOuCh hiGh sOuL ::
L’Alchimie de la soul, du jazz et de la musique
Arménienne…
« High Soul », une invitation au voyage
“All my philosophy and Art is based on this: the connection is at the meeting point, the space
and time of creation, the present." Anouch Adjarian
A la croisée des mondes entre l'orient et l'occident,
la poésie et le chant, AnOuCh est une alchimiste qui
vous invite au voyage en terres métisses…
Dès son plus jeune âge, Anouch pose pour son père
artiste-peintre et découvre par le chant le sens de la
liberté, celle de la création.
Cette ouverture artistique lui forge une personnalité
sans frontière qui se traduit aujourd’hui par ses
spectacles où danseurs, acrobates et projections
viennent illustrer ses messages.
Influencée par ses origines et l’écoute de Janis Joplin
ou encore Rachelle Ferrell, son approche
s’accompagne d’une véritable quête identitaire qui ne
cesse de se confronter à l’altérité. Loin d’un simple
divertissement, Anouch nous transporte vers des
chemins insoupçonnés.
Son premier album « High Soul » fait parti de ceux qui ne laissent personne indifférent. Anouch
pèse chacun de ses mots, pense chaque note, et unit à merveille spiritualité et sensualité. On y
retrouve la richesse rythmique de Cuba, la complexité modale des musiques traditionnelles
arméniennes, la liberté d’improvisation du Jazz et l’âme de la Soul.
Anouch se nourrit donc d’influences culturelles multiples, de rencontres humaines et trouve
instinctivement sa voie(x). Son chemin a croisé les Nubians, Vinx, mais aussi Omar Sosa. Ce
dernier, présent sur son album, dit d'elle : "Tu es une rose au milieu d'un champ de tournesols".
L’artiste joue avec les mots et nous chante le voyage de la vie. Avec poésie et délicatesse, ses
chansons évoquent l’amour, l’exil, l’espoir et le peuple arménien…
Un parcours enrichi de rencontres…
.: QUELQUES COLLABORATIONS :.
Vinx
Omar Sosa
No One Is Innocent
Cheikh Tidiane Seck
Opus Akoben
Bobby Carcassés
Les Nubians
BlueNefertiti's "Paris@Night, a French Cabaret"
Le Gospel pour 100 Voix
Le Slam Opéra [ Théatre de la Main d'or with Grand Corps Malade and Souleymane Diamanka ]
Tété
Léon Parker
Irakere à Cuba [ under the direction of Bobby Carcassés ]
Melik Ohanian's "Periferical Communities" [Grand Opening of Palais de Tokyo ]
.: DISCOGRAPHIE ;.
2009 High Soul / AnOuCh high sOul / High Soul Music
2005 Les Nubians presents... Echos: Nubian Voyager / Les Nubians & Various Artists / Nubiatik
Triloka
2005 Stop à L'affront / Tonton David / Believe
2003 One Step Forward / Les Nubians / Virgin
1998 Aline In Wonderland / Various Artists / Small
La presse en parle…
Extraits de Milena Abrahamyan, The Armenian Reporter.
On November 10, 2009, AnOuCh hiGh sOuL, a French-Armenian singer, took her audience at
Zinc bar in NYC's West Village on a journey.
As soon as the drumming began, mixing with the
sounds of saxophone, cello, duduk, and keyboard, the
energy in the room began to transform and we
inadvertently became a part of something greater,
perhaps a solution to the craziness of experience in our
world. This, it seems, is one of Anouch's primary
goals, what she wants to share with her audience. In
an interview a few days after the show, she expressed
her desire to have the "audience experience something
different of themselves."
For Anouch, music is the link to a spirituality that
opens doors for others to learn about their own history
of exile and roots, of identity, of eroticism and love.
Once the singing began, merging, sometimes going
against the music, Anouch's voice became that door,
and for those of us in the audience who could not help
walking through, a host of emotions began to come up
to our throats.
"Music was my freedom," Anouch told me when asked about how she came to be a singer. She
started to sing in a gospel choir at a young age and was influenced by her father's mixed taste
in music.
From jazz, to Afro-Cuban rhythms, to traditional Armenian songs, Anouch was exposed to a
wide range of music that eventually came to symbolize her own evolution and style as a
singer. After traveling to Cuba, Anouch learned even more about the mix of Spanish, African,
Chinese, Yoruba music that was a big part of the culture of the region. "I mix traditions," she
said, "It has to do with my identity, which is multiple." What she aims to do with her voice is
reach out to humans no matter what ethnicity, or age, or religion. "As I mix jazz, and soul, and
world music, I have all kinds of audiences," she said. "I do not fit in a box."