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It is an unusual love story…
Yuna Le Braz aka DJ Wonderbraz has been known for her magic sets for 20 years.
She decided to take a break in 2018.
She listed four hundred 78s from her family collection. She discovered them and gradually fell in love. She found classics from around the world to jazz standards.
Unexpected pearls have been waiting patiently for years. She inherited an old gramophone. It belonged to her great-grandfather. His master’s voice. Aged but in working order.
The sound exploration continued with the complicity of Hélène Hazera. The idea of a show was born to offer music from the past. 6 gramophones are arranged and diffused mythical sounds, voices and recordings.
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Wonderbraz (DJ) et Thierry Salvert, aka Bad Green (VJ) were very interested in the scandalous place of women in art, in the economy of culture, in the distribution of rights, recognition. The history and place of the women in the music world and music heritages is a big thematic for them.
The project was born. Highlight how women have made the world dance across eras, continents and musical styles.
Thierry Salvert, Bad Green, has already started collecting images. Yuna Le Braz began her immersion in the thousands of recorded music.
It is now time to go on stage, to install the machines and hear together this way.
More than ever, all these women need to be heard.
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Under the alias Wonderbraz, Yuna Le Braz has been mixing masterfully and for the past 20 years music from all over the world which one doesn’t get to hear often: Popular, traditional, ancient and contemporary musical forms which she brought back from her many travels to mix and remix and/or which have been given to her by friends from far away.
Genuine treasures, collector items, electro-exotica, spaced-out hip hop melodies, multi-ethnic musical cocktails guaranteed to set the dancefloor on fire! Guided by sheer instinct along with her vast knowledge of the musical planet, Wonderbraz balances and harmonizes naturally the many different sounds of the world.
A true researcher and lover of non-formatted sounds who is most concerned with the free-flowing exchange of artists and musical forms, she represents much more than a mere messenger: She is a cultural activist!
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Sous le pseudonyme de Dj Wonderbraz, Yuna Le Braz, mixe, avec maestria, depuis 20 ans, des musiques du monde que l’on n’a pas souvent l’occasion d’écouter. Des musiques à la fois populaires, traditionnelles, anciennes ou actuelles, qu’elle a ramenées de ses voyages ou que des amis d’autres contrées lui ont confiées.
Des trésors, des collectors. Des morceaux électro-exotiques, des mélodies hip hop dépaysantes, des bombes métissées, à effet garanti sur le dancefloor. Guidée par son pur instinct, associé à sa connaissance de la planète musiques, Wonderbraz balance, avec naturel, des sons du monde.
Car cette chercheuse de sons non formatés, très concernée par la libre circulation des artistes et des musiques, est bien plus qu’une simple passeuse : Wonderbraz est une activiste culturelle. Une vocation déjà affirmée, pendant une décennie plutôt intense, à Douarnenez, avec ses « Arts dînent à l’huile », festival audacieux et original. Brésil, Sénégal, Portugal, Maroc, Marseille, chaque année, un port sardinier invité, des propositions artistiques indisciplinées, ses coups de cœur et ses coups de foudre partagés…
Aujourd’hui, avec son nouveau projet, Turbo sans visa, Wonderbraz va encore plus loin. Elle croise désormais ses platines avec les vidéos de Thierry Salvert, alias BadGreen, qui partage avec elle ce même goût d’ailleurs. Et elle invite en live le chanteur breton Erik Marchand, lui aussi passionné d’esthétiques hybrides.
À bord de ce Turbo sans visa, on voyage vers d’étranges territoires d’où s’élèvent des sons balkaniques, berbères, béninois ou bretons. Un concentré, puissant et parfumé, de Wonderbraz au pays des merveilles…