We’ve updated our Terms of Use to reflect our new entity name and address. You can review the changes here.
We’ve updated our Terms of Use. You can review the changes here.
/
  • Compact Disc (CD) + Digital Album

    Digipack with 8 pages leaflet

    1.Igor in the sky - prelude 03:03
    2.Le Tsapis volant 04:30
    3.Το μαγικό χαλί (Manos Hatzidakis-Akos Daskalopoulos)04:52
    4.Sultan-i yegâh(traditional) 05:46
    5.Victor Challita (lyrics :Lynn Adib) 04:20
    6.Le vent vient de loin... (lyrics : Maki Nakano) 02:08
    7.Abdallah Kamanja 06:27
    8.Neblina(lyrics : Valentina Añez Rothman) 04:40
    9.Le sapeur de Panama 04:42
    10.Sabahin seher vaktinde(Gülay Hacer Toruk) 02:51
    11.Yagmur yagar (traditional) 04:32
    12.Τα παιδιά της γειτονιά σου (traditional) 04:06
    13.Igor in the sky 05:45

    « I often dream that I am flying over cities, mountains, seas and oceans in a state of plenitude, with the full force of the wind freely flowing over my face, and a deep sense of well-being at floating freely. I am often described as absent-minded, lost in thought, mesmerised by interior journeys and their escapist landscapes which carry me, safe and sound, far from reality and its pedestrian, humdrum, nitty gritty nature. And yet there it was, right under my feet, the magic carpet that weaves my name in French, my Tsapis tapis; all I had to do to fly away was hop on it!
    I met Zeina Abirached a decade ago, when she designed
    a magnificent sleeve for the Mataroa project of the Kaïmaki band.
    As a Franco-Greek, I was instantly seduced by the graphic style and great emotional sensitivity reflected in the work of that Lebanese lady, fresh out of Beyrouth. I remember my enthusiam when her graphic novel, The Oriental Piano, came out in 2015, describing the cross-links between her personal path and that of her great-grand-father Abdallah Chahine's fabulous creation. That story truly inspired me.
    Zeina invited me to take part in a concert designed around the Oriental Piano. The show was first performed at Stains in 2016, and again in 2017 at La Ferme du Buisson during the Pulp festival. Luc-André Deplasse walked onstage with a piano practically identical to the Oriental Piano designed by Abdallah Chahine. The show is based on the graphic novel and blends music, story-telling, shadow play and drawing. We were privileged to perform it many times in France and abroad. I even had the great honour of playing on Abdallah Chahine's original piano in Lebanon during our March 2019 tour.
    From that came a project for a solo album based on the pieces composed for the show, which begat the wish to arrange the music for orchestra: The Oriental Piano morphed into "Tsapis Volant", The Magic Tsapis, a French pun on my Tsapis patronym and its homonym, a tapis volant, a flying carpet.
    "Le Piano Oriental" is a solo album(Vinyl, CD-Comics), whereas "Le Tsapis Volant" features the female voice.
    This new project makes me want to travel and seek out new horizons with my trio from the last album and various guest stars from different backgrounds. We shall therefore fly away on my magic 'Tsapis Volant' with a rythm section that includes
    Marc Buronfosse on bass, Arnaud Biscay on drums, the great percussionist Neset Kutas, and a whole gamut of female voices performing on a large scale of varying tones and languages: I have named the singers Gülay Hacer Toruk, Lynn Adib, Cybèle Castoriadis, Valentina and Juanita Añez and Maki Nakano, encountered in Paris or during the course of my musical travels. My compositions will be heard in different languages; the voices will sometimes blend and merge, or vanish in a puff.
    The 'Tsapis Volant' will be a musical meeting of our common purpose, rising above differences to swoop in on the
    heart of the matter. »
    Stéphane Tsapis

    Includes unlimited streaming of LE TSAPIS VOLANT via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
    ... more
    ships out within 2 days

      €15 EUR or more 

     

  • Streaming + Download

    Includes unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
    Purchasable with gift card

      €1 EUR  or more

     

  • Full Digital Discography

    Get all 5 Stéphane Tsapis releases available on Bandcamp and save 50%.

    Includes unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality downloads of Border Lines, Mataroa, LE PIANO ORIENTAL, LE TSAPIS VOLANT, and Charlie and Edna. , and , .

    Purchasable with gift card

      €14.50 EUR or more (50% OFF)

     

about

We met the Añez sisters, Valentina and Juanita, during a 2018 residency in Colombia under the auspices of the franco-columbian creative laboratory Jazztropicante.
Thanks to Valentina for her wonderful lyrics, as well as the outstanding and extraordinarily interpretation of those two, most unusual singers!

Valentina et Juanita Añez (voix) Stéphane Tsapis (piano, rhodes) Marc Buronfosse (contrebasse,effets) Neşet Kutas (percussions) Arnaud Biscay (batterie)

lyrics

Para qué respirar sin oler fuego
Para qué respirar sin oler humo
Para qué respirar sin oler brisa
para qué respirar sin sentir su aroma
Para qué inhalar un olor falso
Que no venga del aire ó la neblina
Brisa efluvia invisible que expide calma
Brasa vieja que nieva en una fogata
Para qué respirar sin oler fuego
Para qué respirar sin oler humo
Para qué respirar sin oler brisa
para qué respirar sin sentir su aroma
Why breathe without smelling fire
Why breathe without smelling smoke
Why breathe without smelling breeze
Why breathe without feeling its aroma

Why inhale a fake smell
That doesn’t come from the air or the haze
Outpouring breeze that sends calm
Old ember snowing in a campfire

Why breathe without smelling fire
Why breathe without smelling smoke
Why breathe without smelling breeze
why breathe without feeling its aroma

credits

from LE TSAPIS VOLANT, released August 11, 2019
Stéphane Tsapis-Valentina Añez Rothman

license

all rights reserved

tags

about

Stéphane Tsapis Saint Ouen, France

Stéphane Tsapis is a composer, pianist and producer living in Paris.
2019 - Le Piano Oriental, Le Tsapis Volant, Cristal records/Sony Music Entertainment
2016 - Border Lines, Stéphane Tsapis trio, cristal records/PIAS
2014 - Charlie and Edna, Stéphane Tsapis trio, cloud/Boundee
2012 - Mataroa, Kaïmaki, autoproduction
2011- Musique pour 4 mains et une bouche, open music
... more

contact / help

Contact Stéphane Tsapis

Streaming and
Download help

Report this track or account

If you like Stéphane Tsapis, you may also like: