Elisa Samoy

I'm a heavy philosophy reader and jazz listener since many years. I study both field and since I begin composing seriously, I've decided to blend these different form of art together in my music. I'm releasing an album end of june wherein I play all my instruments; alto and tenor saxophone, flute, classical guitar and vocal. 

Resilience is the name of this first album. It's a universe built around my influences: jazz, chanson, and declamation, as well as alternative music (experimental, progressive rock). The project, in its full-band form, consists of an electric guitar, an electric bass (and soon a double bass), drums, and myself playing sax, classical guitar, and vocals.

The songs on my current and future projects are, in essence, the expression of my general disenchantment, my ideals left in ruins as I experiment with the world and human relationships. They are also demands, poetic propositions, huts in which, sheltered in this precarious habitat, everything must be started again. I proclaim my demands on the rubble of what is lost. From rage, through contempt, gentleness, and hope, I use a range of varied emotions to bear witness to the successive—sometimes coexisting—stages of our attempts at rebellion, acceptance, and resignation, in the face of our weariness, which the idiots still resist.

These compositions are also presented in the form of duets or trios with double bass and violin. I named this project "Dans la Cabane" (In the Cabin), and it addresses the same themes, although it incorporates readings of texts, theater, and painting. The goal is to make it a performance as well as a concert.

I'm also a sidemusican, this role give me opportunities to develop different vocabulary in my improvisation as a sax player. I play funk, hip-hop music, indie music, brazilian music and of course, bebop and hardbop music. Trying my best to defend properly these different genre.