Lucie Antunes, at the crossroads between electro and contemporary music

Ffounded in 2006 in Paris, InFiné is a label that aims to abolish the boundaries between contemporary music, techno and (very) modern jazz. A bit like a French equivalent of Warp, an emblematic label of what we call “intelligent techno”. With a history of almost twenty years, having accompanied artists like Francesco Tristano, Rone, Carl Craig or Vanessa Wagner, it is this time with Jeremy Labelle and Lucie Antunes that he goes on tour again, with a stop at Rocher de Palmer de Cenon Saturday November 9.

Jeremy Labelle is from Reunion. He plays a mixture of maloya, this six-beat rhythm typical of the Indian Ocean island, and electronic sounds. As for Lucie Antunes, she has more or less become the flagship artist of InFiné, since the success of “Carnaval”, an album released in 2023, in which she relied on voice samples to construct complex rhythmic architectures . Up to playing on measures of 15 beats, but always with a certain dose of fantasy. Success with “Inrockuptibles”, “Magic” or on Radio France.

Everything for the rhythm

It remains to be seen how all this sounds on stage. At Rocher de Palmer, Lucie Antunes is announced as a trio, supported by two accompanists playing synthesizers and tubular bells (a carillon which brings together around twenty bells with a crystalline sound), while she is divided between drums, vibraphone, various percussions and singing.

A typical instrumentarium of music built above all on rhythm and loops, at the crossroads between electro and repetitive American music. Lucie Antunes has never hidden her interest in composers like Steve Reich or Terry Riley. Even though she began her career playing the avant-garde pop of Aquaserge or accompanying Susheela Raman, an English singer divided between soul, blues and Indian music. And in terms of her influences, she also cites Beethoven, the Beach Boys or Cuban or Dominican salseros. Mixture.

8:30 p.m. €6 to €21 – lerocherdepalmer.fr