Jopo and Ingeborg Poffet, two
musicians from Switzerland travel the world as Duo Fatale. They focus on
collaborations, network improvisations and musical research. They experiment
with several instruments from all over the world, but Jopo patents the Clarinet
and Saxophone and Ingeborg plays the Accordion. Duo Fatale play at
International festivals, Club concerts and film music studios. They work with
electronic, are producers and create nonstop new formations, compositions,
concepts, multi-media-events (with projections, installations, chain-saws and
movies), CDs & DVDs, scores, booklets and other projects. Both are
composers, teachers and producers as well as soloists for different projects.
Duo Fatale recently came to West
Bengal to explore the heritage of the region and collaborate with local
musicians. They extensively traveled through the state, absorbing different
folk cultures and indigenous art forms of the locals as well as their
lifestyles. In the course of their exploration they also collaborated with
various groups of local musicians, including Bauls, Fakirs of Bengal and other
urban musicians coming from various genres. The collaborations comprised of many instrumental
conversations between Eastern and Western cultures of music like a dialogue of Dotara
and Saxophone, Accordion and Tabla. They visited some village festivals like POT
Maya Festival, a Patachitra annual mela, at Pingla, Paschim Medinipur between
11th to 13th November, 2016, where they learnt about the heritage of patachitra
paintings and interacted with the artists and in the evenings collaborated. They
were at the Baul Fakir Utsav in Gorbhanga,
Nadia between 18th and 20th November, 2016. They felt that the bauls bring out
the soul sound of Bengal. At Akhra @ Baitanik Duo Fatale did a collaboration
concert on the 6th of November 2016 which was received very well by the
audience.
What excited Ingeborg absolutely was
the concert at the Bookaro Festival at the Indian Museum, Kolkata, 5th of
November, 2016, where she played tunes from a series of children's songs that
she has composed on Rapunzel.
Their experience at a two day
workshop they conducted with the students of Rabindra Bharati University was
remarkable, where they did an impromptu jam. The enthusiastic students played
various Indian instruments like Sarangi, Flute, Esraj among others while the
Swiss musician duo taught them lessons on vocal chord structure and Western
music.
Having interacted with local
musicians and craftsmen, Ingeborg and Jopo are greatly moved at how the
traditional local art forms are being continuously revived. Duo Fatale not only
collaborated with local musicians across genres but also learnt quite a lot
about indigenous art forms of Bengal. Overall it was an experimental experience
for them, which they have documented to some extent and would like to work with
elaborately as a project soon, with recordings and International concerts.
Watch their journey here
Watch their journey here
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