La Mòssa is a perpetual movement, a polyphonic and percussive whirlwind.
NEW ALBUM “WANDA PÉTRICHOR” • RELEASED : OCTOBER 13, 2023
In La Mòssa, a story of constant motion and development, an ensemble of four artists is determined to blend their sonorities and rhythms to shake some stereotypes. After drawing from sources of traditional repertoires to polish a jewel of a first album, they take us now on a new exciting journey. By creating a set of new compositions, well-anchored in today’s world, these four women take harsh aim at the apparent naïveté of rhythms and melodies coming from secular traditions.
In 2019, the heart of their album “a moss!” throbbed with ancient traditional songs that they offered to us in new original variations. They were already brewing languages, cultures and emotions from old stories through the embodiment of their own living energies. In 2023, these citizens-artists-of-the-world return with a new opus that departs from their original inspiration linked to traditional songs, to connect further out into today’s world.
La Mòssa improves more and more the interactions between the sonority and the meaning of words. Through this new repertoire, mainly composed by its members, the group puts a new stamp on its history… Each one of them takes part in a great musical feast: delicate, engaged and feverish all at once. You will find there flavors from places where populations mingle: southern Italy as the native land, the Reunion Island with its chili-candy words, Garcia Lorca’s poetic Spain, the loud shouts of Occitania from the south of France… Three covers mix into this new set; hybrid reinterpretations coming from Sweden, Venezuela and Apulia.
Emmanuelle Ader, Sara Giommetti, Aude Marchand and Lilia Ruocco: four different personalities determined to free themselves from genre codes and conventionalities, drawing as much on their inner freedom as from their individual influences and singularities. In search of rougher sounds, they forcefully summon percussion, which becomes a sixth voice and adds depth to the ensemble. Several artistic residencies have made it possible to further develop the synergy of these songs with the use of polyrhythmic playing… The intertwining of human and instrumental sonorities has gradually made its way into this new opus, thus reinforcing the powerful alchemy of La Mòssa on stage.
Between fall of 2022 and summer of 2023, a whole new galaxy enriches these already fertile times for La Mòssa. The aura of the group goes even further beyond the field of traditional music and anchors more broadly in that of modern sounds by adding images to their evocative power. More specifically, they participated in the soundtrack of Kim Chapiron’s next feature film, as well as in the creation of a videoclip with Armel Hostiou (Fantazio, Babx, Bertand Belin…) and live videos produced by the frontierless director Vincent Moon (The Blogotheque, The TakeAway Concerts and the filming of holy rituals all over the world).
La Mòssa is always in motion !
© French text : Amaury Rullière – English translation : Brian Watt
PRESS QUOTES
• France Inter – C’est une chanson
Ludivine Sagnier, a famous french actress, speaks about « Sereia »by La Mòssa
(…) These woman can do anything, a Stradivarius’ army (…)
listen the French interview
• Songlines magazine : Female vocal quintet deliver songs that really move : « A heart-rending and delightfull album » Ciro de Rosa
