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Romain Baudoin - 3 improvisations on the beach
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- country:France
- region:Occitania
- style(s):Blues, Early World Music
- label:PAGANS
- type:Solo
- gender:male
- instrumentation:instrumental, percussion, visual, singer songwriter
- artist posted by:Hart Brut
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- Romain Baudoin (Hurdy-gurdy, percussions, bells, tape player)
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Artús member, Romain Baudoin used to play with "Torrom Borrom" since 7 years, hybrid instrument he imagined and created, half hurdy-gurdy and half electric guitar : Kind of drone noise, closed to desert rock, shamanic & mystic, on a first record "1 Primate". Didier Petit and his famous european label "In Situ" ordered a new record from Romain. After this first record showing the possibilities of this Chimera instrument, the second one is the opportunity to push experimentations and research : "BESTIARI".
But 5 years ago, Romain bought a traditionnal hurdy-gurdy, made in 1930 in Jenzat, Allier area, France, made by a well-known instrument maker called « Pimpare cousin », with an incredible play quality and a full sound, like old hurdy-gurdies. The so-called simplicity seems to Romain at the opposite of contemporaries hurdy-gurdies, but it's the starting point. He works on this idea : Can we invent others play forms on this instrument, totally backward flow with actual practice ? In the same time, he works on the origins of hurdy-gurdy practice in "Landes" (south west France), with sonic and written documents via families and public collections like « la mission Landes du musée des arts et traditions populaires » ("Landes task of art museum et popular traditions").
The "ARREHAR" ("back to the roots" / "restart") project was born.
PAST GIGS : opening for Shellac in Pau, Valencia, Madrid, Bilbao and Gijon. Festival A Tant Rêver du Roi in Pau, Le Manège in Lorient, Les Patrimoniales in Sarlat, with Laetitia Sheriff and Olivier Mellano at Les Embellies festival in Rennes, La Gâterie in La Roche Sur Yon, opening for benjamin Clementine in Antipode Rennes, soirées Tricollectif in Paris, Jazz à Poitiers festival, NoBorder festival in Brest, Uzeste Musical, Métamusiques Cognac, Jazz à Luz etc.
