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"Brigitte's music is founded on melody and lyricism
and is faithful to the gayaki (vocal style of instrumental music)
tradition of the Master Vilayat Khan. She takes the sitar onto
a more human level, full of pure sensitivity... "
D.S
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"The Indian traditional music has been too often associated
with images of spaced out hippies... Nothing of that sort with
Brigitte Menon, the great lady of sitar."
Le Numéro
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"The French princess of sitar... "
Rock & Folk
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"In the hands of the French virtuoso Brigitte Menon, this
instrument that Ravi Shankhar made us discover via the Beatles
at the end of the Sixties assumes here an amazing sonority and
rhythm. On the spectacular side, one just has to look at the finger
movements of the sitarist who, sitting in the Indian fashion,
launches out very high-speed riffs by gliding the left hand with
ease on the long neck of her instrument."
Michel Danis (Montréal)
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"The sitar, normally so complex, opens like a flower in her
hands. Easily accessible. Melodious."
Figaroscope
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"Brigitte Menon was simply stunning on the sitar, cool and
smiling, letting her fingers run on the wooden neck with a disconcerting
ease..."
Michael Lellouche (Glaz'Art)
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"Throughout the whole album this virtuoso plunges us in musical
patterns full of originality and subtlties."
So What
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"The sitar of Brigitte Menon without doubt evokes the Master
Pandit Ravi Shankar. Beautiful harmony between jazz and Indian
music. Brigitte Menon knows how to give the sitar the jazzy touch."
Amazon.fr
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"The extraordinary charm of Brigitte Menon's sitar and its
ethereal vibration swirls in spirals, and like perfume floats
on the pulsation of jazz."
Ouest France
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"Brigitte Menon on sitar was a pleasant surprise, both aurally
and visually. I really liked the way she sat on a raised stage
with her sitar so that everyone could see her brilliant, easy
fingerwork."
Awomyn , North Sea Jazz Fest Cape Town 2003
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"Sitar lead Brigitte Menon plays lines that are at times
lyrical and funky, and rich and ornamental at others...."
Prasad Bidaye
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"Brigitte MENON is not unknown in jazz/indian music fusion.
Aumja, her new band, is displaying the talent of the French sitar
player. This album (Aumja: mythologies) is simply superb. Once
more the mix of jazz and indian sounds does magic with somptuous
melodies."
terredasie.com
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"Brigitte Menon and her sitar -the Indian voice of the group
decorates the whole disc with oriental tapestries ...Walcott privileged
a certain contemplative slowness, but Brigitte Menon makes the
sitar stand out."
Chronicart
https://www.thehindu.com/features/friday-review/malladi-sreeramprasad-the-pallavi-as-prayer/article8025729.ece?secpage=true&secname=entertainment
December 24, 2015 07:51 pm | Updated 07:51 pm IST author : M. Ramesh
Malladi Sreeramprasad said it was a prayer for the flood victims, seeking man-Nature harmony. The mood, therefore, was sombre, which precluded the scope for any acrobatics. The Keeravani alapana flowed slow and majestic, full of gravitas, imbuing the audience with a sense of peace.
Sreeramprasad began the raga with a long hum of the lower shadjam, and soon the brothers built up the raga essay with a series of long karvais with measured slowness, dwelling on each note — a sharp contrast to today’s T-20 Carnatic music. The result was a beautiful and tranquil Keeravani, with a Subhapanthuvarali feel— perhaps modelled on the Hindustani Keerwani, for it had echoes of Pandit Shivkumar Sharma (santoor) and Brigitte Menon (sitar). Violinist HN Bhaskar did a brilliant follow-through, playing in the same vein. ...
It is often heard that non-native performers of traditional art forms are basically guests or even robbers - handicaped in learning the art and faulty and / or superficial in their performance. This argument is sometimes used by nationalistic Indians when Europeans or Americans grab a tabla, sitar or their vocal chords and play Indian classical music. The argument seems to be supported by beginners playing anxiously and enthusiastically out of tune - and presenting their fruitless efforts on the internet. However years and years of working through the fine mists of besurism (playing out of tune) in search for the right tone are an essential part of learning Indian classical music, and the sheer quantity of beginners' videos only proves that camera and internet are more easily available than composure and patience. The spurious argument gets its death blow by this beautiful hommage to a really great sitar player - performed excellently, with great finesse and in full accordance with the spirit of the gharana by French Brigitte Menon: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HKYydS9FNQ0 (first of six parts, her bhairavi is great, too). By Ingo Anhenn
Nominé aux7° Victoires de la musique catégorie Meilleur album Jazz de l'annéeet aux8° Victoires de la musique groupe découverte jazz de l'année |
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Ma plus grande fierté! Sir Yehudi Menuhin |
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Aumja |
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Cap de bonne Espérance |
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