NEWS: Solo Album "Chansons & More" & Release Tour 2024
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Presentation One Woman Band
Before the concert, there is a suitcase on wheels. After the concert too. During the performance, everything in this mobile trunk will appear on stage. Not much. And yet a lot. Enough for Béatrice Graf, a multifaceted musician for whom music has no secrets, to evoke a changing world in a series of set pieces. While percussion provides the general structure, numerous landscapes are conjured up by her guitar... on a single string, used like a versatile Lap Steel. On that one string, Béatrice Graf both strikes and caresses. One hears Led Zeppelin, Ravi Shankar, Fela Kuti. Trance, meditation, rock, folklore—in the mobile trunk of the Geneva artist, there is a one-woman orchestra, enough to remake the world. And then packs it up until the next concert.
Also in this suitcase is an album, 'Chansons & More', the first under the artist's own name after many years in the business. Having received the Swiss Music Prize in 2019, she wanted to spread her wings after touring extensively in Switzerland and abroad with the duo Ester Poly. ‘Chansons & More’ contains songs in French and English that speak of ecology, women, addictions, and love. At the heart of her time, lighter and freer than ever, Béatrice Graf here starts a new chapter in her long and rich career.
Rodolphe Haener 2024
06.04.2025 SOLO @ Unter Deck | DE- München | 20:00 https://unterdeck.de/events/
05.04.2025 SOLO @ Raumschiff | AT- Linz p| p20:00 https://www.raum-schiff.at/
04.04.2025 SOLO @ Neue Zukunft | DE- Berlin p| 20:00 | : https://www.greyzone-tickets.de/produkte/1012
29.03.2025 SOLO @ Queen Kong Club- La Case à Chocs | CH-Neuchâtel | https://case-a-chocs.ch/event/bunkr+release+party+beatrice+graf+2025-03-29/
14.03.2025 ESTER POLY @ Kino Cameo | CH-Winterthur | 20:00 Film Screening & Concert https://kinocameo.ch/
13.03.2025 SOLO @ Théâtre les Amis | CH-Carouge 21:00. https://lesamismusiquetheatre.ch/beatrice-graf-one-woman-band/
07.03.2023 AUFZUG! @ Zollyphon | CH-Zollikofen | 20.30
24.02.2025 SOLO @ Jazzchur-Postremise | Chur
22.02.2025 SOLO @Nuit Noire du Gibloux-Buvette de la Vuisterna | Vuisternens en Ogoz
02.02.2025 ESTER POLY Film Screening & Concert @ Centre de culture ABC | La Chaux-de-Fonds | 17:00
31.01.2025 ESTER POLY Film Screening & Concert @ Cinema Sil Plaz | Ilanz/Glion | 20:00
26.01.2025 ESTER POLY Film Screening & Concert @ Solothurn Film Festival | Uferbau | 18:30
20.01.2025 ESTER POLY Film Screening & Concert @ Urgence Disk + Spoutnik | Geneva | 17:30
16.01.2025 ESTER POLY Film Screening & Concert @ Moods | Zürich | 20:00 (Premiere)
15.01.2025 ESTER POLY Film Screening & Concert @ bee-flat im Progr | Bern | 20:30
Film Screening & Concert Tour: «Ester Poly – Sin via en Tunesia», a short documentary by Manuela Steiner
Es wäre nicht vermessen, sie als Grande Dame des Schlagzeugs zu bezeichnen, aber irgendwie ist sie dafür viel zu pünkig
Tabea Andres, Berner Kultur Agenda 6 -19. April 2023
Quand la génialissime Lovelybbones nous a présenté son idée de la booker pour le festival, on a tout de suite été emballé.
Mais alors en live, la claque. Ca restera un de mes plus beaux souvenirs de Tea room
Vanessa Cojocaru, mother de Tea Room festival.
Diese Bemerkung, die Béatrice Graf vor rund zehn Jahren in einem Gespräch wie eine Selbstverständlichkeit aussprach, fasst die Lebensphilosophie der aussergewöhnlichen Musikerin zusammen. Eine Mischung aus gesundem Menschen- verstand, der aus einer beschwerlichen Kindheit in einem ländlichen Umfeld stammt und einer entschlossenen Zielstrebigkeit aus drei Jahrzenten Do-it-yourself-Praxis.
Schweizer Musikpreis Magazin, Béatrice Graf Preisträgerin 2019
Whether as a soloist on her self-built trunk drum set, in the furious power duo Ester Poly or as a show-playing music mediator - she always captivates with her very own timing and an urgency that results not least from the constant confrontation with the great challenges of our time. This year, her work was honoured with the prestigious Swiss Music Prize.
Clemens Kuratle, Jazz'n'More
Graf’s playing is patently imaginative, at times tastefully reserved, at others fully extroverted, drawing on an array of found percussion implements. Her eclectic cast of musical character actors renders a satisfying pastiche of soundscapes and styles that holds up well over two discs.
New-York Jazz review
Beat & Lip di Beatrice Graf e Philippe Ehinger (Altrisuoni) (...) i due riescono a moltiplicare in modo davvero convincente (...) e il panorama sonoro (...) è ricco di suoni, timbri, magie colorate che fanno pensare ad una dimensione orchestrale. Il contesto è sfuggente, il linguaggio è quello del jazz, ma la musica che la Graf e Ehinger ci propongono non è etichettabile. (...) Quello che fa da comune denominatore è un senso del ritmo sempre ben pronunciato, bello carico di sensazioni intense e pronunciate, accattivante per l’indomito entusiasmo. Un canovaccio su cui è piacevole improvvisare, cosa che i due fanno senza porsi limiti.
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