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About
Cylsée is a presence. A voyaging singer-songwriter with an enchanting voice and an original repertoire inspired by Mediterranean oral traditions, including Occitan (South of France), Italian dialects, French and other languages... and two albums today.
Particularly attached to the Occitan language and its poetry, she dedicated a big part of her first album to the great Occitan poet Max Rouquette. She musically interprets his superb and mysterious, somewhat animist poetry. She includes her own texts and others discovered on her journeys, such as those of the Italian poet Andrea Zanzotto, the young Occitan poet Aurélia Lassaque, the essential Aude poet Léon Cordes... bringing the tradition of the Occitan “Trobrairitz” to new audiences. Her dreamlike and eclectic repertoire is tinged with playfulness and nostalgia and ranges from melodic ballades to hypnotic vocals. Within this, she brings the wild landscapes of the Occitan regions to life, paints humorous portraits, talks about exile and her own struggles against a backdrop of fascinating and fragile nature.
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...
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Music
Los savis
2nd album (2023)
“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
L’ombra messatgièra
1st album (2016)
“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
Videos
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Concerts
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— 2025 —
Sat. 1 February 2025
Espace Robert Doisneau, Meudon
📍16 Av. du Maréchal de Lattre de Tassigny, 92360 Meudon
Thu. 30 January 2025
Théâtre Aleph, Ivry
📍30 Rue Christophe Colomb, 94200 Ivry-sur-Seine
— 2024 —
Sun. 29 September 2024, at 7 p.m., Cylsée solo version,
Club des poètes, Paris
https://www.poesie.net
📍30 Rue de Bourgogne, 75007 Paris
Press
Le communiqué de presse et le dossier de presse sont disponibles ici.
“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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