L' ENFANCE ROUGE (Tunisia / France / Italy)

A certain Pan-Occidental Electricity wildly melted with Splendorous Oriental Grandness.

L'Enfance Rouge / The Red Childhood. At first, a French/Italian trio, based in between Berlin and Borj El Khadra. More than 1800 concerts from 1995, from Vilnius to Tbilissi as from Paris to Siracusa. Avant-rock without boundaries, neither musical nor geographical. The European press talks about them as crossroads between introversion and acceleration, between cerebralism and wildness.

TRAPANI ~ HALQ AL WAADY, recorded in between Tunis (TN) and Lecce (I), is the newest album recorded by L'ENFANCE ROUGE. A certain pan-occidental electricity melted with splendorous oriental grandness. An inventive synergy in-between larsens, feed-backs and these famous arabic quarter-tones. The arrangements are signed by Mohamed Abid, unchallenged 'ud master from the "Orchestre National de la Rachidia", composer and teacher at the "Institut Supérieur de Musique" of Tunis.
If the whole occident is to be closed again on itself, its musicians are getting internationalists. By specifying that on both sides of the Mediterranean Sea there was of course no will to carry out a fashionable and well-formatted world-music, nor oriental tourism or intellectual colonialism.
Trapani-Halq al Waady : a direct and short from-North-to-South line. Trapani is the last European port, Halq al Waady is the first Ifrikian harbour.

SOME SCENIC REFERENCES
Montreux Jazz Festival (CH), Dour festival (B), Garorock (Marmande-F), Festival Musiques Volantes (Metz-F), Festival Les Rockomotives (Vendôme-F), Festival Les Volcaniques de Mars (Clermont Ferrand-F), Festival Trasporti Marittimi (Europe), Festival BadBonn Kilbi (CH), Festival Bear Rock (Andenne-B), Le Divan du Monde (Paris-F), Le Brise-Glace (Annecy-F), Le VIP (St Nazaire-F), La Maroquinerie (Paris-F), L'Antipode (Rennes-F), Le Grand Mix (Tourcoing-F), La Laiterie (Strasbourg-F), L'Olympic (Nantes-F), Dachstock Reitschule (Bern-CH), L'Ancienne Belgique (Bruxelles-B), 4ad (Dixmuide-B), G's Club (Barcelona-E), Col-legi Major L. Vives (Valencia-E), MKZ (Koper-SL), Init (Roma-I), Jazzkeller Sauschdall (Ulm-D), Fri-Son (Fribourg-CH) ...

SOME PRESS CUTS
...the music looks like the Vesuvius after eruption ...This way to work electricity, more with a brush than with a hammer, is driving quite far the notion of musical violence ...In France very few musicians seem able to sign such a scenario... Les Inrockuptibles - F

...Extra-europeans grooves, occidental & ghoulish feedbacks, oriental & uncut quarter-tones. This new record is huge, but especially unique: nobody before succeed so honestly in blending these genres -and please don't talk about a Kashmir of Zeppelinesque memories. With the musicians of the Orchestre de la Rachidia from Tunis, L' ENFANCE ROUGE went much further, beyond the Western fortress... AD / TM#08

... You are in a trip, cradle exotic with instruments, and - BANG ! -, they awake you like rare into an electric rage worthy from the good days of Einstürzende Neubauten... But you can't find any other more dorsal sharper than this North-south one, that comes a lot further into North and South. From one side: the oriental splendour driven by a 'Oud master, and on the other a pure virtuosity of chaos, completely bursted out, between collapse of larsens and sismic ruptures…
Magic-F

…The UFO of the season ! This is the perfume of freedom... Libération – F

…Collusion of worlds dives us into a fantasy and unreal landscape, between urban shadows and desertic vertigo, between the warm languor of the arabic chant and the raw urgence of the European electric energies. A lucid and wild music. Mouvement – F

…Instrumentists who decided to overtake any genre of any time… La Repubblica – I

…Singularities that give a perfume to reactive compositions, soft and acid, for a dreamlike geography outside of the beaten track… Le Monde de la Musique - F

DISCOGRAPHY
SWINOUJSCIE-TUNIS, Selfish Prod, 1996 /// Compilation "RADIOIRA", il Manifesto, I, 1997 /// TAURISANO-CAJARC, Taccuini C.P.I, Polygram, 1998 /// REUS-LJUBLJANA, L'Enfance Rouge, Tripsychord, 1998 Compilation /// "TRIENNI" TalpClub, G3G Records Barcelona, S, 1999 Compilation "Il Mucchio Selvaggio", I, 2000 /// DAVOS-LEROS, Audioglobe, I, 2000 /// Compilation "Cosmonaute", AnorackRecords, F, 2003 /// ROSTOCK-NAMUR, Audioglobe-L'Enfance Rouge, 2003 /// KRSKO-VALENCIA , Wallace Records, I , October 2005 /// KRSKO-VALENCIA (+ 2 unpublished numbers), T-Rec Records, F , May 2006 /// LA REPUBLIQUE DU SAUVAGE, Irfan (F) + FromScratch (I), 2007 /// TRAPANI - HALQ AL WAADY, March 2008, T-Rec Records, F + Wallace Records, I.


WEB-SITES
http://www.enfancerouge.org/
www.virb.com/enfancerouge
www.myspace.com/enfancerouge

LABELS
France: T-REC, http://www.t-rec.org/
Italy : WALLACE, http://www.wallacerecords.com/
Distributed by: Anticraft (http://www.anticraftmusic.com/ , F) // Mandaï (http://www.mandai.be/ , BeNeLux) // Audioglobe (http://www.audioglobe.it/ , I) // Irascibile (http://www.irascible.ch/ , CH)

PARTNERS
L' Antipode (Rennes-F) # Institut Français de Coopération de Tunis (Tunisia) # Réseau Férarock # T-Rec (France) # Wallace Records (Italy)

CONTACT:
ahmed@trasportimarittimi.net