“Just a perfect day” with double bassist Sarah Murcia, who gives two concerts at the D’Jazz Nevers Festival

This Monday, November 11, third day of the D’Jazz Nevers Festival, could it be, as Lou Reed sang on his album Transformer (1972), Just a perfect day ?

It is not a question, as the lyrics of the title suggest, of swallowing a few glasses of sangria in a park or of feeding the animals in the zoo (if we stick to the first reading of the lyrics, which could also suggest a dependence on prohibited substances). But it’s good to go, and rather twice than once, to warm up the start of the week to the sound of Sarah Murcia’s double bass.

This presents, at noon, at the municipal theater, Transformedwith Fanny de Chaillé, whom she met while she was the musical director of a piece where her accomplice assisted the choreographer.

A record, hits

Transformed is a reappropriation of Lou Reed’s third album, produced by David Bowie, whose songs “everyone knows. It’s amazing that in a single record, there are so many hits,” notes Sarah Murcia. “It’s representative of an era. »

In 2021, the Neversois public had already been able to be captivated by his rewriting of While I’m dyingby novelist William Faulkner, for the show My mother is a fish.

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Here, Sarah Murcia and Fanny de Chaillé have “reconstructed the songs” of Lou Reed, scattering his notes, disarticulating his texts, playing with the collective unconscious imbued with references. “We try to tell the story that this record tells us, by extrapolating. It’s often funny, but not only that. » Double bass and voice participate in creating, through their vibrations, this “object” that is “own” to them. »

“They are great improvisers”

Tonight (Monday November 11), the theater spotlights will shine on her again, as she shares the stage with Lucian Ban (piano), Louis Sclavis (clarinets) and Mat Maneri (violin). The double bassist has been familiar with Louis Sclavis’ quintet for ten years, and accompanied Lucian Ban and Mat Maneri to Romania a year and a half ago. “They are great improvisers, I loved working with them. »

For this quartet, a formula that everyone “wanted to try”, each member wrote music, to which their fingers will move, exploring new directions, deviating from the path, but setting the same horizon.

And we can slip to Sarah Murcia, at the end of the second concert and this “perfect day”, with the voice of Lou Reed: “I’m glad I spent it with you” (I’m happy to have it spent with you).

Alice Forges