PHENOMENAL WOMEN Macha Gharibian

• 1 You Love Her 04:28
• 2 Mana Mana 04:05
• 3 Celebrate 03:52
• 4 Survoler La Lune 04:18
• 5 Nare Nare 04:47
• 6 Nobreza 02:57
• 7 Prelude To A Ritual 01:43
• 8 Phenomenal Women 06:37
• 9 Plage Solaire 00:59
• 10 Kef Time 02:02
• 11 Petite Zibeline 04:17
• 12 Ya Dirati 03:14
• 13 Outro 02:10
• Total Runtime 45:29

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Borrowing its name from a poem by the great Maya Angelou, Macha Gharibian’s fourth album ‘Phenomenal Women’ is set to release on January 24th on Rue Bleue Meredith Records.

Captivated by a video of Angelou reciting her poem in London in 1987, Macha Gharibian found herself urged to pay musical tribute to the poet, and to the strength of all women. “In all the battles we are fighting right now—against sexism, the violence women endure, and for equality—I want to tell them, “We are brilliant, we are the wealth, the intelligence, and the power, we are phenomenal.””

Influenced by the school of ‘natural vocalists’ in Nina Simone, Jeanne Lee and Joni Mitchell, Gharibian’s luminescent energy leads her listener through the record’s delicately varied tonal palette of celebration, prayer, joy, and melancholy across the album’s ten original compositions and three imaginative covers.

Drawing from the music of her childhood—especially her father's voice (Dan Gharibian, co-founder of the group Bratsch), which she heard singing in Armenian, Russian, Greek, and Romani—Gharibian blends her personal cultural heritage with contemporary styles, singing in five languages on Phenomenal Women, embracing the inflections of English, Armenian, French, Portuguese and Arabic with undeniable ease.

Accompanied by her long-term collaborator Belgian drummer Dré Pallemaerts and bassist Kenny Ruby, Gharibian breaks away from the trio format she’s known for and shares her vocal duties for the first time with singers Lea Maria Fries, Linda Oláh and Isabel Sörling. Soaring gospel-tinged improvisations and three-part vocal harmony, ethereal synth timbres, propulsive piano-led grooves, and crystal clear modern production provide the musical backdrop for a body of work that offers hope and unity in a divided world.

Macha Gharibian, lead vocals, piano, Fender Rhodes
Lea Maria Fries, vocals
Linda Oláh, vocals
Isabel Sörling, vocals (on Celebrate)
Dré Pallemaerts, drums
Sylvain “Kenny” Ruby, electric bass, keyboards

Recorded at Midilive Studio, Villetaneuse, France, from March 4 to 8, 2024 and at Seventeen Studio, Paris, on May 8, 2024
Produced by Macha Gharibian

Please Note: We offer this album in its native sampling rate of 48 kHz, 24-bit. The provided 96 kHz version was up-sampled and offers no audible value!

Macha Gharibian
Pianist, singer and daughter of the musician Dan Gharibian (founder of Bratsch) Macha Gharibian evolves in several kinds of music and mixes on stage her multiple influences. From jazz to world and folk music.

At 20 she starts to write for theater by creating the music of the play Titus Andronicus (W. Shakespear) for a staging by Simon Abkarian. Mixing her own compositions with Rachmaninov and Messiaen pieces. (2003/2004 Théâtre Nationale de Chaillot).

In 2005, her journey in New-York opens to her a new musical horizon, she discovers jazz and improvisation with new-yorkers jazz musicians such as Jason Moran, Ralph Alessi, Ravi Coltrane, Craig Taborn …

Between 2006 and 2008, Macha gets on tour with the show “Gens de Passage” directed by Bratsch which gathered 19 musicians on stage to perform between New-York and Paris.

Invited to the American Dance Festival in New-York in 2009, she creates by improvising the Artslink New Russian Choreography music in the prestigious Judson Church of Washington Square.

In France, she starts to write and to perform on stage taking her inspiration from the Armenian piano repertoire. She writes for little and big musical trainings including a piece for orchestra and three improvisers created at the Oslo Jazz Festival (2008). By mixing her classical and jazz influences she also works on soundtracks.

Since 2010, Macha performs with several musicians whose musical projects are going from traditional music to Jazz.

She once again works for theater with the director Simon Abkarian and signs in 2010 the music of Projet Mata Hari (Théâtre des Bouffes Du Nord, Paris/ Théâtre National de Toulouse).

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