On the occasion of the release on November 15 of his new album, Samares (ECM Records), in trio with double bassist Patrice Moret and drummer Julian Sartorius, pianist Colin Vallon tours the Swiss, French and German stages. Carried by the single Marscomposed at the start of the war in Ukraine, between idleness and hope, this fourth trio recording promises to be ample and generous, like the bewitching touch of the Vaudois musician. S. G.
Colin Vallon Trio. Friborg (La Spirale), Saturday 9 at 8:30 p.m.; La Chaux-de-Fonds (Les Murs du Son), Friday 3 p.m. at 8:30 p.m.; and Sion (Ferme-Asile), Saturday 4 to 9 p.m.
Geneva
Movie theater
In 2005, the anthropologist Philippe Descola published the essay Beyond nature and culture. As a wink, the Sputnik Cinema is offering a mini-cycle entitled “Beyond the Human”. The opportunity in particular to discover the Belgian feature film exclusively Robinson Crusoe is a dickby Benjamin Deboosere, around the myth of the white settler coming to bring civilization to indigenous populations. S. G.
“Beyond the human” cycle. Sputnik, until November 27.
Musique
It will be said of Ramleh (the group is today a duo led by its two co-founders Anthony Di Franco and Gary Mundy) that it is something that only the United Kingdom could offer: an alloy of repetitive rock and noise (this is not where the British specificity lies) which constructs a form of pale, raw psychedelia (there, we are more British). This music, since 1982, does not seek to explore colorful beyonds, but rather to sublimate our cursed part in a low frequency trance. P. S.
Ramleh. Cave 12, we 13 at 9 pm.
Spectacles
We can’t say anything anymore. And above all, we can no longer say: “we can no longer say anything”… Refractory to any confinement, as they proved in the very brilliant Round trip bias where they illuminated our preconceptions, Steven Matthews and his Company Don’t Stop Me Now offer nothing less than a musical comedy around absolute truths which are in fact very relative… That is, observe the director and Cécilia Olivieri in writing, “in our society saturated by “facts”, we choose those that suit us to be on the right side of History”. With its ten artists embodying these moral tribes who no longer agree on anything, here is a show that promises to “make peace”! M.-P. G.
“The Generation of Bumper Cars”. Théâtre du Loup, from November 12 to 24.
With an open heart. This is how Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui, director of the Ballet du Grand Théâtre, often experiences his shows. In 2022, he paid tribute to his Antwerp mother, in Vlaemsch (at my place), with his company Eastman. Today he continues his mosaic with Ihsane where he follows in his father’s footsteps in the white mazes of Tangier. With him, on this inner journey, there are the dancers of the Geneva Ballet. In Arabic, “Ihsane” means “benevolence”, “goodness”, “excellence”, breathes the artist. We need “Ihsane”, especially these days. So let his light be! A. Df
“Ihsan.” Grand Théâtre, from November 13 to 17.
Each Milo Rau show is a stab in the web of our indifferences. After his shocking Clemency of Titus at the Grand Théâtre, the Swiss artist returns to Geneva, to the Comédie, with Family. It is inspired by a tragedy today: in 2007 in Calais, a couple and their two children committed suicide, not without having tidying up the house. Belgian actors An Miller and Filip Peeters blend into their darkroom. They are looking for the key to an incredible act and so are we. As always with Milo Rau, we face our shadows. A. Df
“Family.” Comedy, from November 13 to 16.
Neuchâtel
Spectacle
The breath of utopias at altitude. Anne Bisang, director of the Théâtre populaire romand (TPR), wanted a play that spoke of these unique centers of humanity that mountain towns like La Chaux-de-Fonds give rise to. French author Magali Mougel gets her wish with It starts with fire. After the fall of the Wall in 1989, men and women conspired for a more harmonious world. Seven actors, including Philippe Vuilleumier, Angèle Colas and Françoise Boillat, fan the flames of happy revolutions. A. Df
“It starts with fire.” La Chaux-de-Fonds, TPR, Beau-Site, until November 17.
Vaud
Musique
In the 1960s, he was the voice of Mali’s independence. In the transistors, Boubacar Traoré sings the blues of Niger, then, when Modibo Keita comes to power, he disappears from the airwaves, considered the musician of the old regime. Then began a few years of wandering in Paris, before a producer discovered a tape of his radio recordings in Bamako, and began looking for him. “KarKar” is then reborn from its ashes. From this very special destiny, the musician drew a vital force that is still very present at 80 years old. When he goes on stage, it is the history of Mali that shines through. JDBG
Boubacar Traoré. Lausanne, Jumeaux jazz club, Tuesday 12 at 8 p.m.
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