She is a multi-talented artist... an enriched rzatz...
R-zatz started making music with Aku fen (High Tone guitarist), ten years ago in her room, on a computer. Since then she's never stopped working on music. Indeed, since 2002, she's been the official sound engineer for Lyon-based label Jarring Effects and in charge of recording studio "Jfx studio" which re-opened its doors on the Croix-Rousse plateau. All these years allowed her to confront the label's artists : High Tone, Ez3kiel, Reverse engineering and to learn with them... In 2005, she gets out of her room : the opportunity of a festival in Lisbon will have her perform for the 1st time on stage, with fellow Paris VJ girlfriends Pixelles. This electro-cinematic project is named Kinokik: R-zatz on the music and Pixelles on the videos. The 3 will then perform all around France and England. In parallel, R-zatz multiplies musical encounters, she will produces several tracks with at first. Then, she bonds with La 5ème Kolonne's blazing rapper Fisto, with whom she composes several heavy and dark abstract hip hop tracks.
2007: R-zatz takes it to a higher level and produces her album in collaboration with different musicians. This album offers us her vision of the world, altogether dark and phobic. Dry and cold drums in constant rupture echoes a world seeking for meaning and gravity. Without manichaeism, throbbing melodies answer the on-the-edge-of-balance rhythms. Then the music gets noisy and closer the human being and her voice. For hers is resolutely stateless. Words, at times in Arabic, Japanese or English, don't feel foreign at all. And so on, the tracks echo each other and weave the plot of a movie script very close to...Not a documentary. Behind these audio pictures hide a ultra sensitive director who, beyond the mechanics and screaming of machines, lets us access a touching femininity. Finally, one can only relate it all to the cinema of David Lynch. A film where you're free to swap chapter at your will to create your own story, your own flash forward. To cross the line. It is an invitation.
On stage R-zatz will play along with a bass player and a video artist. Behind their machines, as facing an editing deck, they direct a film in real time. On the screen, 3 actors share parts and dialogues through the different musical universe. Transcending genres, this live set (or scenario) combine animation, video and cinema.
R-Zatz Live !
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