# Orchestre National De Jazz ‎- Europa Oslo 2017: Video

- Link: https://jazzblues.eu/2017/09/16/orchestre-national-de-jazz-%e2%80%8e-europa-oslo-2017-free-download-video/
- Published: 2017-09-16T19:24:14+01:00
- Author: https://JazzBlues.EU

**Olivier Benoit brings his EUROPA project to a close by setting a northerly course
with his musicians that takes them to the capital of Norway. Oslo is an atypical
city. **

Nestling in the heart of triumphant natural surroundings, it has constantly pursued
its architectural and cultural transformation, somewhere in between ancient tradition
and the incredibly modern. At the close of the last century, this city was already
setting the tone for new artistic concepts. To accompany the capital of Norway in
music and establish a subjective portrait of the city, first an immersion was necessary.
Living to the rhythm of Oslo’s seasons constituted a vital source of inspiration
that provided the composition with its starting point.

Exploring this fourth European capital gave Olivier Benoit the desire to associate
words and speech with the project, hence the two-voice evocation that he imagined
with the complicity of contemporary Oslo writer and poet Hans Petter Blad. This 
singular author, a writer who chisels into the chiaroscuro of souls, selected excerpts
from his writings forming a series of realist poems in which the music composed 
by the ONJ’s artistic director finds its echo. To incarnate Hans Petter’s texts —
which the author himself has translated from Norwegian into English — Olivier Benoit
chose Maria Laura Baccarini, a multifaceted artist who is a singer and actress.

As an orchestral suite whose movements offer a very broad dynamic range — alternating
moments of intimism and melancholy (the image of a hearing of confession), hypnotic
atmospheres and powerful crescendos — EUROPA OSLO plunges us with rare intensity
into the very heart of the city and the flesh of its inhabitants, moving between
wounds, wanderings and renaissances. The panoramic universe of Olivier Benoit continues
to draw from multiple sources — jazz, repetitive music and progressive rock — and
they provide a made-to-measure setting for the elegiac pen of Hans Petter Blad. 
The outcome is a sensitive tribute to Oslo nourished by the expressive strengths
of each of the orchestra’s musicians in the company of Maria Laura Baccarini, here
an inhabited performer. An ultimate opus, magnetic and thrilling.

[Free download](https://dfiles.ru/files/tdzlgmq22)

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