BORDERS
Anett Tamm: voice, electric guitar, texts
David Chevallier: hybrid guitar, compositions
Sébastien Boisseau: double bass
Christophe Lavergne: drums
Photo by Philippe Anessaut
Anett Tamm met David Chevallier’s trio in the autumn of 2018, during a first series of concerts in Estonia. She then went on stage with the same team in 2021, when the whole world was frozen by the Covid-19 pandemic. The programme performed was ‘The Ophelia Songbook’, which was written jointly by Kyrie Kristmanson and David Chevallier. The successful collaboration gave the push to build an original repertoire together. This is how “Borders” was born.
This new repertoire, written by four hands, is about the border, the place where one can move from one universe to another, from one culture to another, where one can confront the unknown. The border can also be a bitterly contested or selfishly protected place. Whether you are a tourist, an invader or a migrant, this boundary does not have the same meaning and does not generate the same reactions. “Borders” deals with this subject from various angles: exile, discovery, migration, encounter, experimentation, friction…