métisse live! vol.4 Justin Vali & Marc Chemillier / Bamboo harp “Valiha” and the front line of Malagasy vibes

8/3 (sat) 19:00 start
Venue: métisse ( 4785 Nojima, Nanto City, Toyama JAPAN )
Act:  Justin Vali < valiha, zither, kabosy, voice>, Marc Chemillier < keyboard, computer>

Ticket: Adv 3,000JPY（Door 3,500JPY）
High school students and below Adv 500 JPY (Door 500 JPY)
*Free for preschool children.

Justin Vali

Justin Vali is one of the greatest living interpreters of traditional Malagasy music on the valiha, a tubular bamboo zither considered Madagascar’s national instrument. He also plays the marovany zither from the east and south of the country and the kabosy, the small Malagasy guitar. Justin Vali contributed to several compilations in the late 1980s, and played with Kate Bush on her 1993 album Red Shoes.
In 1994, he gained international recognition with the recording of Ny Marina (The Truth) for Peter Gabriel’s Real World Records label. In 1999, he released The Sunshine Within, a
collaboration with Paddy Bush (brother of Kate Bush). In 2008, he collaborated with Erick Manana and other leading Malagasy artists to record an album under the name Malagasy All Stars. He is also the initiator of the Ny Malagasy Orchestra project, bringing together
some of the best musicians on the Red Island. In 2006, he was awarded the SACEM Grand Prix in the traditional music category.

Marc Chemillier

A musician, computer scientist and anthropologist, Marc Chemillier studied jazz piano (Schola Cantorum, CIM). He entered the ENS de Fontenay-auxroses in mathematics in 1981 and studied harmony and counterpoint at the CNSM in Paris. He wrote his doctoral thesis in collaboration with IRCAM. In ethnomusicology, he worked on the Nzakara harp of Central
Africa (CD Musiques des anciens cours Bandia in 1995), then on the zither of Madagascar. In 2000, as a member of the OMax Brothers (Gérard Assayag, Marc Chemillier, Shlomo Dubnov, Georges Bloch), he created the OMax improvisation software in collaboration with jazz musician Bernard Lubat. Director of studies at EHESS in Paris, he published Les Mathématiques naturelles (Odile Jacob) in 2008. He continues his research into computer-assisted improvisation and its anthropological and social implications, developing the
Djazz software and participating in various artistic projects with jazz musicians (Bernard Lubat, Sylvain Luc) and musicians from Madagascar (Justin Vali, Charles Kely Zana-Rotsy).
In 2021, he published the book-CD Artisticiel with Bernard Lubat and Gérard Assayag.