NEWS: Solo Album "Chansons & More" & Release Tour 2024
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https://lnk.site/beatrice-graf-chansons-and-more
(c) Greg Clement
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
24.10 AUFZUG! Duo Domi Chansorn & Béatrice Graf @ Waxy bar Zürich
19.10 SOLO @ la Traboule CH Carouge https://latraboule.ch/evenements/
13.10 Rien ne me sépare de la merde qui m’entoure @Lavoir moderne parisien F-Paris 15:00 au 35 rue Léon
12.10 Rien ne me sépare de la merde qui m’entoure @Lavoir moderne parisien F-Paris 19:00
11.10 Rien ne me sépare de la merde qui m’entoure @Lavoir moderne parisien F-Paris 19:00
10.10 Rien ne me sépare de la merde qui m’entoure @Lavoir moderne parisien F-Paris 19:00
09.10 Rien ne me sépare de la merde qui m’entoure @Lavoir moderne parisien F-Paris 19:00
08.10 Rien ne me sépare de la merde qui m’entoure @Lavoir moderne parisien F-Paris 19:00
06.10 Rien ne me sépare de la merde qui m’entoure @Lavoir moderne parisien F-Paris 15:00
05.10 Rien ne me sépare de la merde qui m’entoure @Lavoir moderne parisien F-Paris 19:00
04.10 Rien ne me sépare de la merde qui m’entoure @Lavoir moderne parisien F-Paris 19:00
03.10 Rien ne me sépare de la merde qui m’entoure @Lavoir moderne parisien F-Paris 19:00
02.10 Rien ne me sépare de la merde qui m’entoure @Lavoir moderne parisien F-Paris 19:00
https://lmp-billetterie.mapado.com/event/390906-rien-ne-me-separe-de-la-merde-qui-mentoure
27. 09 Trash- Laurence Vielle ( voix) & Beatrice Graf ( musique) @ Poésie en Ville Genève Bains de Pâquis 17:00
13.09 SOLO @WARRIORS WEEKEND - Concietta Spaziale Lugano
22.08-01.09 Festival der leisen Gesten https://eblofari.com/tourplan-finow-24/
01.09. Festival der leisen Gesten @ Camping Triangel DE-Niederfinow 11:00
31.08. Festival der leisen Gesten @ Brauerei „Guten Morgen Eberswalde“ DE-Niederfinow 10:30
29.8. Festival der leisen Gesten @ Im Hof bei Freunden DE- Niederfinow 19:00
28.8. Festival der leisen Gesten @Stadtanleger mit „zu Tisch“ DE- Oderberg 18:00
27.8. Festival der leisen Gesten @ Marina am Wasser DE-Oderberg 18:00
https://www.marina-oderberg.de/
25.8. Festival der leisen Gesten @Altes Schiffshebewerk DE-Niederfinow 11:00
Das Schiffshebewerk
24.8. Festival der leisen Gesten @ Clara Zetkin Siedlung DE-Eberswalde 10:30
22.8. Festival der leisen Gesten @ Marina Marienwerder DE-16348 Marienwerder 19:00
JULY CYCLOTON 2024 WWW.CYCLOTON.CH | |||
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12.07 F.CHITACUMBI & B.GRAF | @Cycloton | Genève | Parc Beaulieu | 19:30 |
13.07 F.CHITACUMBI & B.GRAF | @Cycloton | Carouge | Festival Tour de Plage | 17:30 |
14.07 F.CHITACUMBI & B.GRAF | @Cycloton | Vessy | Berges de Vessy | 15:00 bricolage instruments, 17:00 concert |
15.07 F.CHITACUMBI & B.GRAF | @Cycloton | Nyon | la Soliderie | 16:30 bricolage instruments, 18:30 concert |
17.07 F.CHITACUMBI & B.GRAF | @Cycloton | Ecublens | Ferme de Bassenges | 17:30 |
18.07 F.CHITACUMBI & B.GRAF | @Cycloton | Yverdon | La Dérivée | 19:00 |
19.07 F.CHITACUMBI & B.GRAF | @Cycloton | Serrières | Barraquito | 18:00 |
20.07 F.CHITACUMBI & B.GRAF | @Cycloton | Bevaix | Pointe du Grain | 21:00 |
21.07 F.CHITACUMBI & B.GRAF | @Cycloton | Bienne/Biel | Gurzelen | 18:00 |
23.07 AUFZUG! w.Domi Chansorn | @Cycloton | Faoug | Eco-Topia | 17:00 |
24.07 AUFZUG! w.Domi Chansorn | @Cycloton | Berne/Bern | Lorrainebad | 17:30 |
25.07 AUFZUG! w.Domi Chansorn | @Cycloton | Guin/Düdingen | Bad Bonn | 19:30 |
26.07 AUFZUG! w.Domi Chansorn | @Cycloton | Bulle | Le Chapit'O | 20:00 |
27.07 AUFZUG! w.Domi Chansorn | @Cycloton | FR Fribourg - Le Port | 17:00 |
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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