Pulcinella (F) - Sold out!
- Florian Demonsant - accordion
- Ferdinand Doumerc - saxophones, flutes, metallophone
- Jean-Marc Serpin - double-bass
- Pierre Pollet - drums
“The Toulouse based band combine archetypal Gallic eccentricity with an enormous technical facility to produce genuinely exciting music that defies genre and categorisation.” Ian Mann - The Jazz Mann, 2014
“Using fruity saxophone and accordion, Pulcinella bring a tongue-in-cheek attitude to French jazz.” Peter Bacon - Birmingham Post, 2014
“Toulouse-based band conjures winsomely quirky palette of sounds. … Their swirling sound-world of whimsical, gothic circus noir draws on jazz, tango and alt rock.” Matthew Wright - The Arts Desk, 2014
“Across the eleven tunes on Bestiole, Pulcinella reveals itself to be a band with the power to move its listeners — to happy abandon and to quiet reflection. Neither is easy, to do both so well is a testament to Pulcinella´s talents.” Bruce Lindsay - All about jazz, 2014
Made out of four major actors of the Toulouse scene, Pulcinella is surprising by its high energy and fertile imagination. «Punch», the classical character that originated in the commedia dell'arte of the 17th century is claiming for an extravagant music, generous and dynamic. With a very special sense of story-telling rising from the compositions and arrangements, Pulcinella offers an access to an inventive and original musical world. Hard to classify, the music of the band is full of colours and unpredictable characters. Pulcinella plays an omnivore kind of jazz, fond of rock, tango, musette, and Eastern European music... all in order to serve musical stories and sparkling colourful pictures !
Since 2008 they had over 400 gigs around the world, among them on festivals such as Jazz in Marciac, London Jazz Festival, Jazz sous les Pommiers, Koktebel Jazz Festival 2012. They entered the stage of the Opus first in the summer of 2015 and now, after four succesful albums – Clou d’Estrade (2008), Travesti (2011), Bestiole (2014) and L’Empereur (2015) –, Pulcinella are recording their fifth at BMC, in the first days of January, preceding to their concert at the Opus Jazz Club, where the new material will be the first time introduced to the public.