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Festival Closer Music 2020 / Day 1

Looking back on the performances of Lavascar, Mhysa, Bendik Giske, Teto Preto on the first day of the Closer Music 2020 festival.

Born in 2017 in Paris, Lavascar was built around the personality of Michèle Lamy, a fashion icon and muse of Rick Owens. Completed by his daughter Scarlett Rouge and Nico Vascellari, the trio builds a bridge between spoken word and dark and moving electronic music. With a very empirical approach, Lavascar is a story of words and deprivation, a synthetic and moving narrative that will recall the past works of Patti Smith or Current 93 supported by powerful electronic arrangements typical of the EBM.

With a name piqued in an episode of Game Of Thrones, Mhysa fits perfectly into a new generation of experimental musicians fascinated by pop culture. Discovered by The Wire and recently signed by the English label Hyperdub (Burial, Kode9), she will release a new album in 2020 that digs the furrow of a futuristic and synthetic R'nB bathed by the influence of a spiritual and political soul.

Bendik Giske is a Norwegian saxophonist inspired as much by electronic music as by jazz, discovered by the label Smalltown Supersound.

Without any looper, he creates loops typical of electronic music and plays them until his physical capacities are exhausted, claiming a certain fragility. He regularly works with cinema, contemporary dance and theatre on soundtracks.

Formed around the singer CARNEOSSO, the Brazilian quintet Teto Preto was born in São Paulo with the idea of mixing live music and performance, organic and electronic sounds. Bathed by a wide range of influences, traditional Brazilian, disco, post-punk, the group's approach supports a political and committed discourse that opposes in music the rise of extremes in its country of origin and more broadly in the rest of the world.