For the 46th time, Rennes welcomed curious ears in search of new music. Nova was on site and offers you its chronological and non-exhaustive selection of its musical marathon at Trans 2024.
Where do you place yourself in the debate between people who cannot go to a concert without knowing by heart every song that will be played there and those who go there with the sole desire to discover new sounds? Since 1979, at the beginning of December, Rennes has welcomed many of those who are in the second category. Cohorts of festival-goers fill the halls of the Parc Expo and the rooms of the Breton prefecture, sometimes without knowing any group in the program, in search of the talents of tomorrow.
Daniella Pes – Sardinia
Even before the concert begins, the hall is already full. The Ubu, one of the cult halls of the city of Rennes, is covered in a mystical, dark and melancholic atmosphere created by Daniella Pes. The Sardinian artist sings in a hybrid language between Gallurese – a Sardinian dialect –, Italian and invented words on pads and loops that she creates live. The result is cosmic and visual. There is a timeless side between the synths, the beats, the modern instruments, the samples of old instruments and the songs ultimately close to an incantation.
Rahman Mammadli – Azerbaijan
It’s 5:15 p.m. and a stone’s throw from Ubu, once again, Azerbaijani guitarist Rahman Mammadli is performing. Self-taught for around forty years, he has developed his own style of playing, at the crossroads between 70’s psych style with its distortions and a traditional genre of Azeri music. Despite his long career and his style recognized in the Middle East, this Friday, December 6, was his first (and very remarkable) European stage.
Saigon Soul Revival – Vietnam
9:45 p.m., at the opening of the Expo Park, hall 8, we rush to discover one of the most anticipated groups of the evening, Saigon Soul Revival. Like Altin Gün who left his mark on Trans in 2017 by reappropriating the Turkish psyche scene of the 70’s, the Vietnamese quintet from Ho Chi Minh City is bringing back to light this forgotten scene of the city during the same period. Imported by the Americans at the time, the locals took it back extremely well, with their language and traditional local instruments. The result with Saigon Soul Revival is breathtakingly chic. An incredible stage presence and delicious technical performance.
VOKA GENTLE – Angleterre
Change of room and atmosphere. From Ho Chi Minh City, we land gently (almost weightlessly) in London with the Voka Gentle quartet. A plural, curious and whimsical pop spreads throughout Hall 4 of the Parc Expo in a style that is difficult to describe as the titles follow one another and are so unlike each other.
Ivo Dimchev – Bulgaria
From one eccentricity to another, this one comes to us from Bulgaria. Choreographer, dancer, singer, visual artist, musician, actor, poet… Ivo Dimchev is a plural and complete artist. At past midnight, the queer performer and activist delivered a surprising live performance with his share of sometimes disconcerting ballads and vocalizations in front of an audience somewhat divided between those who wanted to tap their feet and the others embarked on this immense extravagant cabaret. A decidedly powerful moment of the evening.
Def mama Def – Senegal
Another highly anticipated performance for this 46th edition of the Rencontres Trans Musicales de Rennes, the Senegalese female hip-hop duo Def Mama Def. On stage, the Dakaroises Mamy Victory and Defa (Daara J Family), put on a powerful show at the crossroads of rap and R&B singing in Wolof tinged with amapiano and traditional sounds, all in a shattering Afro-futurist atmosphere!
HOME COUNTIES – England
It’s 3 a.m. in the Expo Park and the atmosphere is boiling in every corner of the festival. We are still stuck in hall 8 where the young English from Home Counties have just started. They join the list of traditional groups played at Trans which are certainly reminiscent of LCD Soundsystem, a little of Talking Heads too. But how good is it! A live electro post-punk/new wave, enjoyable and jubilant, resolutely cut out for the dancefloor. Perfectly suited to nighttime festival fever.
TVOD – United States
It’s almost 5 a.m., and it’s not Paris that’s waking up. It’s Rennes. The turn of the dial is complete so that’s just a bonus. We spend this extra hour with pleasure, in the company of the TVOD sextet. A pure rock, punk and post-punk product, all self-produced and a first live performance for them in France which left us all sweaty.
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