Triwap.
Six letters that sum up the shock program and display the color.
Triwap, which could be translated as "
Night gravely to depression
", "
Can induce a state of intense euphoria
", "
Musical altitude cure, hang your seatbelts
".
When they arrive on stage, slicked back hair, orange glasses, conquering gait, double bass, trombone and guitar in hand, sharp voices, smirks, these three seem ready to take down the moon.
"
Ta, ta, ta, ta ta ta ta, ta ta ta!
". The Warner credits, sung in three voices, set the tone: we are invited to a great show. That of three artists that music brought together, in 2004, on the benches of the Rennes music conservatory. Everything attracts them, inspires them, amuses them. Between song to text, salsa, choral singing, jazz, tango, flamenco, variety, operetta, and pop, why choose?
They begin with pleasure, for friends, to sing Brassens in swing mode, Dutronc in reggae, Trenet and Nougaro in jazz. General ovation. A group is born. The success of Triwap at the Avignon festival confirms it, in 2012, when the public rushes to attend the musical spectacle of three young Bretons still unknown, but soon spotted for their energy on stage, their generously shared humor, their perfectly tuned voices. , musical allusions to all styles, the waltz of the "
seven and a half instruments
" they play, the air of not touching it, accompanied by hilarious choreographies. "
We like to peck everywhere, to make our honey and to build from there a coherent show which integrates all that: groove, swing, jazz, pop, second degree, scat with three voices, second degree, sixteenth degree…
”explains Pierre Leblanc, one of the three accomplices, who in addition to playing the trombone and the flute, sings in two salsa groups, and interprets with the same conviction, in their show Dutronc, Stevie Wonder, the Bee Gees, the Gipsy Kings , some hits of their creation.
In line with the Jacques Brothers, the Wriggles or the Quartet, the explosive TRIWAP conquered Paris. His small intimate scenes, first, two seasons in a row, then the large ones, with the Olympia and the Zénith, in the first part of the show by Michèle Larroque, Pierre Palmade and Muriel Robin. They end their triumphant season with a few Christmas performances that promise to set the pretty hall of the Treviso theater ablaze. They engage in it in songs, with a nod to the land of their ancestors: "
Breizh, breizh, breizh, we are going to set fire!"
», And generously donate their talent. Rimbaud saw the vowels in color, Triwap interpreted them in three voices and in "
7 and a half instruments.
», In music tinged with humor, talent, crazy harmonies, covers.
The stories, the life situations, often very funny, sometimes very sad.
Reconciling musical excellence and simplicity, proximity to the public, quirky and fresh humor, getting out of the “
commercial soup
” (to which they dedicate a song), such is their bet, which they win hands down.
Triwap,
What if we get involved?
, with Emmanuel Lanièce, Pierre Leblanc and Martin Pauvert.
Bobino Theater, 14-20, rue de la Gaieté, 75014 Paris.
Phone: 01 43 27 24 24