Saturday June 22, late afternoon in Malagar, family estate where the writer François Mauriac (1885-1970) regularly stayed, located on the heights of the hillsides of the commune of Saint-Maixant (Gironde), fifty kilometers from Bordeaux. Leaden sky, persistent drizzle since the morning. The panorama over the Garonne valley, the vineyards and the Landes forest remains no less grandiose. The wooden frame of the awning under which a stage is installed, welcoming.
A beautiful heritage site in the Nouvelle-Aquitaine region, classified as a “historical monument”, donated by the writer’s four children to the regional council in 1986, Malagar hosts the sixth stage of the 33e edition of Atypical Nights. A traveling festival between several municipalities in the south of Gironde, divided into concerts, shows, folk balls, DJ sets, screenings, debates, meetings and workshops, which is held until July 21.
Shortly after 9 p.m., a sun burst onto the stage, Renata Rosa. Brazilian singer and musician with a radiant smile, she immediately dissolves gloomy moods, readjusts minds to the idea of celebration. Two hours earlier, during a public meeting, she insisted on the importance of dancing. Many of the chairs brought and installed on the dirt floor by part of the public will quickly fold. Entering the dances and rhythms of the Brazilian Northeast that Renata Rosa carries with her becomes obvious.
“Festive and joyful catharsis”
Coco, ciranda, maracatu rural… Popular expressions, songs, dances, rhythms, into the heart of which the singer went to immerse herself one day with greedy curiosity in the State of Pernambuco, leaving Sao Paulo, the megacity in the south-east of Brazil, his hometown (in 1973, according to biographies). There she notably encountered the polyphonies of the Kariri-Xoco and settled there (first in Olinda, then Recife).
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Surrounded by three musicians, Gabriel Marques (seven-string guitar, backing vocals), Sergio Bacalhau (percussion, backing vocals), Stéphane Moulin (bass, percussion, backing vocals), she sings with a high, fiery voice. By accompanying himself to the fiddlea violin with a rustic sound from Pernambuco, which she made her instrument of choice.
“What first attracted me to rabecathe musician will tell us the day after her concert, it was its language and the way it was played by an exceptionally skilled musician, who became my master of this instrument, Mestre Luiz Paixao [mort le 21 mai 2022, à 73 ans]. It sounded beautiful. The phrasing of his melodies, his rhythmic bowing technique, precise, sharp, electrifying… I fell in love at first sight. »
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