LO COR DE LA PLANA

Line up

• Benjamin NOVARINO-GIANA (Vocals)
• Denis SAMPIERI (Vocals, bendir)
• Manu THERON (Vocals, bendir)
• Manuel BARTHELEMY (Vocals, tamburello)
• Rodin KAUFMANN (Vocals)
• Sebastien SPESSA (Vocals, bendir)

• country:
  France
• style(s):
  Polyphony
• label:
  Buda Musique
• type:
  Band
• gender:
  male
• instrumentation:
  vocal
• artist submitted by:
  Troisquatre!

New album "Tant Deman" released March 2007
Lo Cor de la Plana (pronounce "Loo cooar day
la plan") is a male ensemble from the quarter
of La Plaine in Marseille. Six singers
accompanied by percussions (bendirs and
tamburello), "picaments" of their feet and
"bataments" of their hands.
Founded in 2001, the formation has launched
into the systematic re-creation of popular
Occitan heritage. With unrivalled passion they
sing all repertoires, from the most religious to
the most unfettered, the repetitive to the
occasional (quite often at the same time ). Lo
Cor has this new, definitive desire to do away
with "traditional" song, to cross swords with
vocal music and polyphony, even if it means
stirring up those who would like to see these
music forms die a death in chapels...
Our singers are everywhere : in churches,
factories, bars, festivals or theatres, and do
not hesitate to mix disconcerting paganism of
old Occitan backgrounds with the
preoccupations of Marseille musicians of
today. They do not renounce any influence,
from Bartok to Massilia Sound System, or any
origin, from Oran to Rove, as their only
ambition is to evoke and resonate in their
music all that their city and the world around it
has given them in terms of sounds. A police
siren, a newborn baby, the remains of a
paradise or a fantasyland, a drunken party,
sheep, wolves... in short, the peaceful, heady
passion of day-to-day life...