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This album is the results of a live performance from Rodolphe
Burger and Olivier Cadiot. It took place in July 1999, centered
around the language " welche ", it was part of the
Babel festival in Strasbourg, and then became the subject of
a radio broadcast by France Culture in September of the same
year. The live performance was the outcome of an exploration
of the Welche Territory (in a Vosgean small valleys which is
near petite Lièpvre river, where Kat Onoma's leader,
Rodolphe Burger owns a farm-studio), it consisted of a projection
of films followed by a concert integrating and handling the
sound aspect of these documents.
The concert set-up was as follows
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Rodolphe Burger : vocals, guitare, sampler
Olivier Cadiot : computer
Marco de Oliveira : bass, programming
The album consists of
the complete recording of the concert (5 titles) as well
as the rough video documents which were
used for it. The language welche, which is actually a local
dialect, is a unique survival. Roman territory surrounded
by Germanic land (the word welche means " not German " in
German language...), it is only spoken by a thousand people
living in and around a small number of valleys of the Alsatian
Vosges. It will probably disappear in a few years.
The survival of the Welche language until year 2000 is explained
partly by the succession of the German occupations. During
the last war, the Welche survived as a sign of resistance
to the German linguistic dictatorship. It was very often
the language of the smugglers in these areas of mountain
and border.
The project of Burger and Cadiot was not about
celebrating a certain "heritage". But they wanted
to meet the welche speaking population and to let inspiration
brew from
these meetings, in order to produce a strange and singular
object: mixing of Welche elements with the musical work of
the one and the literary work of the other.
TRACK LISTING
1) "C'est dans la vallée" : (It is in the
valley): mixing "Moonshiner", ' le chant du bouilleur
de cru" (old American folk song
once sung by Dylan), with the voice of Mr
Humbert, Welche inhabitant of the valley of Petite Lièpvre.
2)"Tante Elisabeth" : (Aunt Elisabeth): traditional
welche song sung by Mrs Rosa, of Labaroche, and put in music
by RB
3) "Zo Love" : litany created from the translation
in welche of a poem of Olivier Cadiot, with the voice of
Mr Baradel, from Fréland. The poem is about the river
Lièpvrette, which runs in the valley of petite Lièpvre,
and forms the border of the Welche territory.
4) "Try to understand": the river still, but this
time out of the Welche context. It is a cover version of "the
trap", (a original song by Kat Onoma), mixed by Olivier
Cadiot with the voice of the poet Jack Spicer reading " Billy
The Kid " in a small bookshop of San Francisco in 1959.
5) "on n'est pas indiens c'est dommage" (we are
not Indians, it is a shame) : this phrase was pronounced
by Mrs Bauman, from Orbey, at a meeting devoted to the translation
of Navajo songs and texts of Olivier Cadiot. The track mixes
quotations of songs and samples sound which all come from
the voices of Mr Humbert and Baradel, and Mss Rosa and Bauman.
RODOLPHE BURGER
originates from Valley of Sainte Mary au Mines, where the
small valley of Petite Lièpvre river is found. Place
of realisation in "on n'est pas des indiens, c'est dommage".
He is the founder member of the group Kat Onoma (6 albums
released by EMI). Author of 3 solo albums, he also collaborated
to the albums of Francoise Hardy, Alain Bashung...
OLIVIER CADIOT
publishes novels on POL editions (l'Art poétic', Roméo
et Juliette 1, Futur, ancien fugitif, le Colonel des Zouaves...).
As well as writing novels he also writes songs and performs
live with various artists
including Pascal Dusapin, George Aperghis, Rodolphe Burger
and Alain Bashung.
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RODOLPHE BURGER ET OLIVIER CADIO - On n'est pas indiens c'est
dommage
[2000 CD - IDA015]
01. c'est dans la vallée 02. tante elisabeth 03. zo
love 04. try to understand 05. on n'est pas indiens c'est
dommage
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