Papanosh is a young quintet that devours all kinds of styles and forms: jazz, folk, improv and experimental. Their new album A Very Big Lunch is inspired by Jim Harrison (1937-2016), the American writer best known for his novella Legends of the Fall, which has been adapted to film. Harrison’s vivacious stories, landscape and characters have inspired Papanosh to create new soundtracks, that are accompanied on stage by the drawings, paintings and projections of visual artist Lison de Ridder.
The five members of Papanosh are part of the Rouen-based multimedia art collective Les Vibrants Défricheurs (‘the vibrant pioneers’). In the jazz world, each of them independently has collaborated with an enormous list of more and lesser known artists, including Marc Ribot, Mike Reed, Théo Ceccaldi, and Archie Shepp’s Attica Blues Orchestra. In Papanosh, all five members contribute original compositions, and each of them can take on the role of band leader.
Before the concert the opening of our new exhibition takes place. Artist Olaf van der Beek has made several woodcuts of jazz musicians over the years that are now on display in our café.
Quentin Ghomari trumpet, Raphaël Quenehen saxophone/clarinet, Sébastien Palis piano/organ, Thibault Cellier double bass, Jérémie Piazza drums
Lison de Ridder visuals