Olivier Manoury Quartet
Funk / World / Acoustic
Paris, France
About
Olivier Manoury started playing bandoneon and became a bandoneon tuner and restorer. He now concentrates exclusively on playing turning professional in 1979. Since then he has played in many traditional tango bands, accompanied many singers and created his own bands Tangoneon, Tempo di Tango. His collaborations with double-bass player Yves Torchinski around Thelonious Monk, Maurice Béjart or Gotan Project didn't move him away from his faithful passion for the tango, convinced that this musical kind, just like the jazz, can remain only by the interbreeding.
In his new quartet Oivier Manoury is accompanied by a strong Latin rhythmic, a Cuban and two Brazilian, for a music crossing tango, funk and Latin jazz.
Olivier Manoury was born in Tulle, (Limousin, France) in 1953.
He moved to Paris with his parents as a child. He played bagpipes (cabrette) at folk music gatherings in the Bastille area bars where a lot of people from Auvergne lived.
After grammar school he studied painting and sculpture at the Ecole Nationale des Beaux-Arts in Paris, and literature at the university of the Sorbonne where he got a masters degree in 1976.
Olivier then became an instrument maker building violins ,violas, baroque and folk instruments. He started playing bandoneon and became a bandoneon tuner and restorer. He now concentrates exclusively on playing turning professional in 1979.
Since then he has played in many traditional tango bands, accompanied many singers and created his own bands Tangoneon, Tempo Di Tango.
He occasionally appears as a guest in jazz and other improvised music concerts and recordings (Arrigo Cappelletti Quartet in Milano). He also recorded a solo Bandoneon album in duo with the Uruguayan pianist Enrique Pascual, the baryton singer Jorge Chamine, Tangoneon ,the Paris based tango band Tempo Di Tango, The stockholm based Olivier Manoury septet, the Argentinean cartoonist/singer Serguei, the Uruguayan percussion player Jorge Trasante, the African singer Bonga and the American jazz singer Dee Dee Bridgewater and double bass Player Yves Torchinsky.
He is also formed Katinga, a jazz/candombe project with Xavier Girotto on sax, Carlos Tero Buschini on bass and Marcelo Russillo on drums.
In his new quartet Oivier Manoury is accompanied by a strong Latin rhythmic, Lukmil Perez Herrera from Cuba and two Brazilians, Leonardo Montana and Rubens Santana, for a music crossing tango, funk and Latin jazz.
He also plays accordina.
Olivier Manoury is also a composer and writes music for:
Movies (Catherine Breillat's "Sale comme un Ange"(Solveig Anspach's Haut les Coeurs;
TV (Novacek for TV channel France2);
Circus shows (with joggler Nikolaus);
Dramma (Eva Peron by Copi in 1993 and Chantecler by Edmond Rostand in 1996 at the Theatre National de Chaillot);
Dance (he toured worldwide with Maurice Béjart);
Dance /theater show Che Quijote y Bandoneon).
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