Sourdure performed at Cafe OTO on February 19, 2022, with Bégayer and Calhau! Here is an edit of their performance, taken from the livestream of the show.
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About Sourdure:
Active as part of several adventurous groups (Orgue Agnès, Kaumwald, Tanz Mein Herz), Ernest Bergez brings electronic and acoustic instruments together into a logic of hybridization.
Solo under the name of Sourdure, he delves in the traditional repertoire of the Massif Central area and develops an idiosyncratic form of songwrinting, in French and Occitan. Prospective and empirical, his approach is found at the junction between a spirit of experimentation, a practice of violin playing and singing rooted in popular tradition, a poetic research in Franco-Occitan bilingualism and a long habit of cooking with various electronic tools.
With the creation of the quartet ‘Sourdurent‘ in 2019, alongside Jacques Puech, Elisa Trébouville and Loup Uberto, he dives deeper into Occitan writing and traditional inspired composing, seeking for a music of euphoria and communion with an assumed tropism for popular music from the Middle East and the Mediterranean coasts.
Sourdure continues his quest for unusual poetic and sonic forms on De Mòrt Viva, a concept album thought as a divinatory system. Constructed like an invented tarot deck, ‘De Mòrt Viva’ explores the idea of a contemporary paganism in ten jubilant, humorous and spiritual odes.