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Music
“The wise ones”,
an album of 11 tracks released in February 2023
She continues her musical wanderings within Occitan poetry, while presenting her own texts with a detour through Notre Dame des Landes, Northern Italy or even South America. These songs in French, Occitan, Italian and Spanish are coloured by various influences that have left their mark on the singer-songwriter: from them a vast territory emerges, mapping a poetic and utopian ZAD (an area occupied by environmental activists), incorporating folk music, contemporary music and oral traditions from southern Europe – from the Balkans to Tunisia to Provence. The measured breath of her deep singing flows like clear water from a spring. Giving free rein to inspiration and imagination, Cylsée’s “The Wise Ones” will take you beyond borders and time!
- Digital album :
Available on all streaming or download platforms.
(See below)
- CD album with the booklet and translations (French, English):
by mail order, 17 € + shipping costs.
Contact sending an album
“The message bearing shadow”,
an album of 9 tracks released in summer 2016
Occitan title of Cylsée’s first album, singer-songwriter with warm and crystalline voice. Fascinated by the Occitan poetry of the great Languedoc poet Max Rouquette, she put five of her texts in music, as well as her own creations in French and English, in addition to a text in Spanish and one in Neapolitan dialect. A dreamlike universe unfolds with the magic of a summer night, messenger shadows returning from the depths of souls, a mysterious walker in exile, a Venice with a black velvet smile, a tree with a thousand fingers caressing the shadow of a former love. Without forgetting the facetious and somewhat invading Mathurin, nor this Symphony as a creative impetus triumphant of chaos... Bouzouki, percussion, viola violin, guitar, charango, flutes and many other instruments accompany these beautiful melodies with subtle arrangements. A guaranteed musical takeoff!
- Digital album :
Available on all streaming or download platforms.
(See below)
- CD album with the booklet and translations (French, English):
by mail, 15 € + shipping costs.
Contact sending an album
Texts by J-C Peralba, Paris Music Library
About
Cylsée, c’est une présence. Une musicienne compositrice, chanteuse-voyageuse à la voix envoûtante, et un répertoire original inspiré des traditions orales méditerranéennes, entre occitan, dialectes italiens, espagnol, français et d’autres langues. Et aujourd’hui deux albums.
Fascinée par la richesse de la poésie occitane, elle a consacré une belle part de son premier album au poète langudocien Max Rouquette dont elle met en musique la poésie mystérieuse, quelque peu « animiste ». Elle chante aussi ses propres textes, ceux glanés au fil de rencontres avec des personnalités du monde méditerranéen ; le poète italien Andrea Zanzotto, la poétesse occitane Aurélia Lassaque, l’incontournable poète audois Léon Cordes… mettant au goût du jour la tradition des « trobrairitz » occitanes. À mi-chemin entre musiques actuelles et tradtionnelles, au sein d’un répertoire éclectique où se côtoient féerie, nostalgie et espièglerie, la musique et les mots déploient des étendues sauvages, brossent des portraits piquants, parlent de l’exil, de la ZAD de Notre-Dame-des-Landes et l’urgence de se reconnecter à une nature fascinante et fragile…
Cylsée accompanies herself mainly by guitar and viola, performs solo, duo or group with variable geometry, depending on the contexts, surrounded by excellent musicians from different horizons: Goran Juresic, accomplished bouzoukiste and multi-talented instrumentalist, percussionist Rachid Belgacem, polyflutist Miquèu Montanaro, bassist and backing vocalist Marine Danet...
▶︎ Read the biography
▶︎ Press release & press kit
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Concerts
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— 2025 —
Sam. Dim 22-23/11/2025 Stage Chants de luttes et d’espoir, à la Bibliothèque Associative de Malakoff, 14 impasse Carnot.
Dim. 9 novembre, 18h concert de Cylsée à la Librairie Publico 145 rue Amelot, 75011 Paris
Samedi-Dimanche O4-O5/09 stage de chants polyphoniques géorgiens à la BAM de Malakoff, 14 impasse Carnot, avec Pierluigi Tomasi
Dim.21 septembre 2025, 11h Journées du patrimoine, concert dans le jardin de l’Hôtel du Baschy du Cayla, 34000 MONTPELLIER
Sam. 20 septembre 2025, 14h Journées du patrimoine de Montpellier concert de Cylsée en duo avec Goran Juresic 20/09 : 14h place Max Rouquette / 34000 Montpellier
Sam. 13 septembre 2025, 20h Concert en duo avec le chantre Rahim : Samâa Caerulea, chants soufis et voix de la Méditerranée, , ,
Mer. 23 juillet 2025, 12h (abbatiale), 19h (cloître) Grande journée de l’improvisation dans les musiques anciennes – Organum CIRMA : 2 concert d’improvisation orgue-violon-alto et piano-violon-alto. Moissac
Sam. 31 mai, 20h30, Mystica Voce avec ODO Ensemble, Eglise de Foucheran (Franche-Conté)
Dim. 1er Juin 2025, 16h Mystica Voce avec ODO ENSEMBLE au Musée du Hiéron, à Paray le Monial (Saône et Loire)
Sat. May 17, 4pm
Médiathèque Cœur de Ville (Vincennes Media Library)
📍98 Rue de Fontenay, 94300 Vincennes
14 mai 20h
Festival la Comédie du Livre / Opéra de Montpellier / salle Molière
https://www.10joursenmai.fr
📍Montpellier : Rates & access
Sam. 12 avril, 16h
Vélizy Media Library
📍3 Pl. Bernard Dautier, 78140 Vélizy-Villacoublay
Dimanche 16 mars 2025, 12h20 Radio Libertaire / Folk à lier, chronique : introduction au chant populaire traditionnel japonais 民謡音楽
Mardi 4 mars 2025, 20h30 NOTRE DAME DE PARIS – avec ENSEMBLE ORGANUM – La légende des siècles
Théâtre Aleph, Ivry
📍30 Rue Christophe Colomb, 94200 Ivry-sur-Seine
Sat. 1 February 2025, 8.45 p.m.
Espace Robert Doisneau, Meudon
📍16 Av. du Maréchal de Lattre de Tassigny, 92360 Meudon
Press
The press kit and press release are available here.
“The first thing that hits you is the vast universe unveiled by her voice. The variation of deep and high notes, the way in which she interlaces emotions and feelings, momentum building through lively refrains... Cylsée carries us away. She stimulates our imagination and transports us all to a land of poetry, spirituality, just causes, initiation stories, traditional and contemporary tales.”
François-Marie Pons, writer & director
“Los Savis is a whole melodic universe with subtle arrangements in which Cylsée’s vibrant and captivating voice unfolds wonderfully between bouzouki, percussion, viola, bass, guitar, flutes... Her deep singing flows like a clear and original spring.”
Paris Music Library “Coup de cœur” summer 2023
“Halfway between current and traditional music, between magic and nostalgia, “The wise ones” by Cylsée will take you on a journey!”
France Bleu, February 2023
“A special mention for the French songs, composed by Cylsée, in which the rhythm is electric and the lyrics mischievous.”
Aquò d'Aqui, January 2023
“Cylsée has a strong bond with the land, like a farmer. She is linked to nature from which she draws its images, dreams, even mystery. She communes with it, gives it her heart.”
L’Éveil Normand, avril 2019
Continuer la lecture de « Presse »“Soundscapes of a very current middle age. L’ombra messagièra is credit to Cylsée’s medievalist training, the testimonies of refugees she hears and the landscapes inspired by the verses of Max Rouquette. A real success.”
Aquò d'Aqui, September 2017
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