Chene Noir

As you might guess out of this band’s name, Théâtre du Chêne Noir d’Avignon, Chêne Noir was a troupe of music artists and stars from the town of Avignon in southeast France. Avignon actually is well-known for its many theater companies as well as the name identifies both the functionality group as well as the historic chapel where these are headquartered. Many very similar groups — such as for example Primary Edwards Magic Movie theater, Grand Magic Circus, and Floh de Cologne — in the first ’70s throughout European countries blended rock and roll with movie theater, but Chêne Noir, even more avant-garde than most, deserves particular note because of its mixture of improvised jazz and rock and roll, spoken phrase, dance, and theatrics. Musician and article writer Gerard Gelas founded Chêne Noir in 1968 in an effort to create ceremonies release a the entire potential of mankind and force the performers literally and psychological towards the limitations. Though sometimes the troupe placed on materials by Molière, Alfred Jarry, and additional even more obscure French authors, their main concentrate was on unique materials by Gelas and others in the group. In 1971, the famous experimental jazz label Futura released the group’s 1st album, Aurora, documented from a Might 1971 efficiency of a bit within their repertoire since Sept 1970. Whereas upon this debut, Chêne Noir was a seven-piece and by the past due ’70s if they released a few even more albums, Chant put le Delta la Lune et le Soleil and Orphee 2000, independently label, that they had done to ten people. In the meantime, the physical theatre itself offered a efficiency space to additional acts over time; in 1972, both Magma and Steve Lacy performed there as well as for Lacy, it had been the 1st of his many single concerts. The Chêne Noir business has continued to execute through the entire last several years into the fresh millennium, either in the chapel or on tour to other areas of France, Moscow, Poland, Italy, Switzerland, Germany, Algeria, as well as Canada.