Indonesian feminist metal, RnB with pinches of Tamil culture and Sri Lankan sounds or even romantic rap: a small sample of Trans Musicales de Rennes, which will be held from December 1 to 5, commented by its boss Jean-Louis Brossard.
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Indonesian feminist metal
Doesn't a group of feminist Muslim women with telluric guitars play clichés? There is the
We are Lady Parts series
. And there is Voice Of Baceprot for the real and the brutal. Or Indonesian feminist metal played by a trio of girls wearing hijabs.
"
They are venerated (angry in verlan), you feel the struggle of women, like LohArano, a Madagascan group that is also programming this year
", comments Jean-Louis Brossard.
"
They want to express themselves on their experiences as women but also on all the things that surround them, which also affect men, such as corruption, freedom of expression ... They are happy to come for the first time. in Europe because it's winter and they told me “if there can be snow, it's great”, it's touching
”.
Afro-pop and education in Benin
The Star Feminine Band is a Beninese female orchestra launched by a music teacher from a small village in Benin. "
It is not only a group of young girls (still teenagers for the most part), there is a whole educational project behind, they must not miss school either
", underlines Brossard. André Balaguemon, the teacher in question, sends messages of emancipation to families through this musical project. He thus insists on the fact that "
each girl remains in school and is not drawn into a forced marriage
", as described by the French label Born Bad Records, which signed them. The Star Feminine Band offers an afro-pop that extends the paths opened by stars of African music such as Miriam Makeba and Angélique Kidjo.
Melbourne punk tornado
Amyl and the Sniffers is a punk group from Melbourne (Australia), three boys led by a singer, Amy Taylor.
The name of the group juggles with terminology from drugs, but the group mainly injects feminist texts into its nervous riffs.
It is thus a question of girls who do not have to be assaulted, whether they are walking around town or whether they throw themselves into the public in concert.
“
Their new album enchanted me, it's more pop than what they did before, it's not just an angry Marsupilami with the others and their mullet cuts behind (laughs).
People really want to see this group, it's going well,
”rejoices the boss of the Trans.
In a showbiz ever faster to spot underground nuggets, Amy Taylor and her associates have already posed for a Gucci campaign.
But that doesn't mean they have calmed down.
RnB between Sri Lanka and Switzerland
Priya Ragu is "
of Tamil origin, she lives in Switzerland, she mixes RnB, soul, a little bit of electro, she draws on her Sri Lankan roots and comes up with new music, a bit like Monsieur Doumani. , a Cypriot trio that we are also programming this year,
”explains Brossard.
The thirty-something, former employee in the aeronautics, who lives in Zurich in Switzerland, found a good echo internationally with her title
Good Love 2.0
.
This track fell on the BBC's playlists and is featured on the soundtrack of the blockbuster video game
Fifa 2021.
Rap, melancholy side
Originally from Rennes, who lives in Paris, Lujipeka escaped from the Columbine group.
"
I had gone to the Vieilles Charrues, I had seen Columbine and he had made me listen to his solo songs, more pop, and I had said to him 'if one day you are ready, I will do something with it. you ”
, remembers Brossard.
Lujipeka is the artist in residence at the Trans this year.
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