Jeanne Added takes her music “into completely unexpected spheres”

The singer with a striking voice is in concert at the Auditorium of the Maison de la radio et de la musique, Saturday January 27, with the Radio France philharmonic orchestra. She will play “Sensational Symphony”, a new creation imagined for the festival.

She is one of those singers who doesn’t need much other than their voice. But Jeanne Added immersed herself with desire in this Sensational Symphony, the name of the special creation for the Hyper Weekend Festival, in the Auditorium and with the Radio France symphony orchestra. It must be said that his training, both in jazz and as a cellist, allows him to perform side steps like this. “It’s a great opportunity to have access to all kinds of ways of making music, she explains. What’s important is to find what will make me want to continue, to find a way of doing things that I haven’t done yet.“.

The emotion, whatever it may be, should be at its peak: “It’s very special to be inside an orchestra and hear the sound playing all around you, she confesses. I have really strong memories of that.“.

When you play in the middle of a symphony orchestra, it’s as if you are a piano string, constituent parts of the instrument that is playing.

Jeanne Added, at franceinfo

For the arrangements, Jeanne Added called on Dan Lévy, who had produced her first album, Be Sensational. A duo that works well, for “a titanic job, because he not only rearranged, orchestrated, rewrote intros. It makes my songs travel into completely unexpected spheres“.

And if the recent past has showered us with symphonic reinterpretations of works or pop repertoires that did not deserve it, here it is quite the opposite. Jeanne Added’s universe and voice were made for that.

Hyper Weekend Festival, until Sunday at the Maison de la Radio et de la Musique and on the channels of the Radio France group.