FRANCE KATIE KIM SOURDURE NUÈIT DAWN TERRY

Rage Sacrée returns for an autumnal date and new wanderings through adventurous music, between traditional and avant-garde sounds, between past and present.

On this occasion Petit Bain is delighted to welcome the best English festival, Supersonic hailing from Birmingham, which has been exploring experimental music since 2003 for an evening bringing together five singular artists whose musical universes navigate between folk tradition, drone, psychedelia, sonic experimentation and ritual intensity.

From the hypnotic movement of the hurdy-gurdy to the Kurdish bouzouki, through industrial textures, immersive electronics and expansive drones, this evening honors music that is both ancestral and resolutely futuristic.

The Supersonic Festival is one of the most singular gatherings in the United Kingdom, dedicated to experimental music and contemporary art. Since 2003, it brings together daring music, visual arts and performance, honoring artists who push boundaries and question the way we live, share and experience music.

Born from Birmingham's rich musical heritage, marked by extreme music as well as a culture of resistance and reinvention, Supersonic places these roots in an international context, creating bonds between artists and audiences through experimentation, solidarity and collective experience.

The festival believes in the power of radical creativity to challenge the established order, bring forth communities and imagine other futures.

FRANCE

A powerful trio brought together by Yann Gourdon on hurdy-gurdy, Jérémie Sauvage on bass and, for this show, Romain Simon on drums, France pushes drone and minimalism to their most ecstatic and massive expression, removing the guitar from the equation as the foundation of rock to let Gourdon's hurdy-gurdy, an instrument ripe for hypnosis and repetition, wander freely and intensely along this pulse. With lysergic ancestry in the accents of Sister Ray by the Velvet Underground, the motorik rhythm of Neu!, the narcotic rock of Spacemen 3 or the minimalism of Dream Syndicate, France weaves long digressions around repetitive rhythms and bass lines upon which Gourdon deploys his arsenal of quasi-riffs, overflowing distortion and feedback into a whole that, although seemingly monolithic, is in perpetual motion. There is neither beginning nor end. Only glimpses of eternity.

KATIE KIM

Katie Kim is an Irish singer, multi-instrumentalist, visual artist and songwriter. Her work features great variations in the sonic density of her tracks, sometimes even within the same song. From minimalist rhythms to dense and dissonant arrangements, her albums build arching orchestrations around diffuse moods: melancholy, fatigue and a quiet aggressiveness, always simmering.

Over seven albums and an impressive multitude of collaborations, Kim has developed a remarkable mastery of nuances in her compositions.

Often compared throughout her career to Cat Power, Hope Sandoval and Julianna Barwick, she moves within an ethereal dream folk pop realm, touched by accents of electronic, gothic music and folk. All these atmospheres coexist within Kim's magnificent cinematic and Lynchian meta-universe.

Katie Kim is also a member of the acclaimed doom folk band ØXN, a quartet formed with Radie Peat of Lankum, Eleanor Myler of Percolator and renowned Irish producer John Spud Murphy. The band released their debut album, CYRM, in 2023 on Claddagh Records.

SOURDURE

An artist based in Thiers, (63), Ernest Bergez alias Sourdure, has been journeying for about ten years along the borders of distant sonic worlds, combining an experimental spirit with a personal, handcrafted approach to the traditional musical object. Hybrid and exploratory, the music of Sourdure reveals itself under multiple facets; baroque inventions on traditional canvasses, vociferous carnivalesque odes, stylistic borrowings from Middle Eastern music, sonic craft marked by musique concrète... Allied with the acoustic rusticness of the violin or dotar (Central Asian lute), electronics perform their alchemical work; disrupting sonic objects, altering perceptions and the course of time.

NUÈIT

Based in Brittany, Nuèit adapts traditional Occitan songs with instrumentals based on industrial samples and dronesque soundscapes. For more than 10 years she has been singing and playing violin to this repertoire, for a time with the group Säkkriñ, while exploring electro-acoustics with her solo project xəbərdarlıq. With Nuèit, she fuses her organic Occitan roots with her adopted industrial north.

DAWN TERRY

Dawn Terry is a Newcastle-based musician and composer whose work explores the transformative possibilities of sustained sound, improvisation and drone. A founding member of the influential drone metal band Bong, and now a member of Bong II, she has devoted for more than a quarter of a century her work to pushing boundaries between heavy music, minimalism and experimental performance.

Alongside her work with Bong II, Dawn has developed a singular solo practice centered around accordion, vocals and live looping. Her performances create immersive sound environments where long evolving soundscapes, layered vocal textures and acoustic resonance unfold with patience and intensity. Nourished by influences ranging from experimental drone to black metal to free improvisation, her music is both meditative and emotionally expansive.