He stage of the Rojas Theater is preparing to welcome this Saturday at 8:30 p.m., a new show which recovers the musical heritage of one of the great references of American culture, Tom Waits, composer, actor and creator of songs which marked an entire generation on a global level . .
This is “Playing Tom Waits”, an original work in which six musicians with more than 100 instrumentsrecovers the legacy of the musician, born in Pomona (California) in 1949. In this original play, the actors They begin an original journey through music. One plays in front of the other, on top of the other, they put the rope around each other’s necks… in a crazy performance.
After visiting different European and American rooms, “Playing Tom Waits” returns to its original form – with flowers and sharp knives-, songs that resonate throughout the stage, managing to attract the enthusiasm of all participants.
Unusual and invented music
Furthermore, the “Men’s Orchestra” also offers an oblique vision on the performance and presence of the actor, composer and singer, thanks to the force of a game which causes imbalances which dismantle a relationship without artifice with the spectator.
The group dives into the rich repertoire and universe of Tom is waiting transform their songs in a harmonic and percussive symphony. “We really do what we want with their music, with a lot of respect,” explains Bruno Bouchard, singer and multi-instrumentalist of the group. “We recognize most of the songs, but we gave ourselves artistic leeway in interpreting them.” Thus, with crazy and extravagant humor, the musicians of L’Orchestre d’Hommes-Orchestres take the audience on a journey through American culture to the rhythm of jazz, blues, rock, hip hop and poetry.
To do this, the orchestra founded in Quebec (Canada) in 2002 seeks new sound textures using unusual musical instruments, invented or found in the waste of all life, transforming its performance into an amalgam of performing arts, in which includes music, theater, street theater and urban interventions.
The work revolves around the character of the orchestra man (a jack of all trades, who has no particular talent other than knowing how to do a little of everything, but all at the same time), the collective does everything, without possessing the particular character, talents or knowledge required; We must therefore go out and look for raw solutions, reinventing virtuosity in another place, achieving a long-awaited reconciliation between current art and popular culture.
