Author: Didi Lowka

“Invitation au voyage” – the new album by singing duo Marie and Jean-Claude Séférian invites you to travel to places of longing and satisfy your wanderlust. Whether in reality or in the imagination, father and daughter take us on a musical journey with their reinterpretation of chansons and songs from different corners of the world.

The name “Séférian” means nothing other than “the travelers” and, significantly, this program was created during the Corona period. In order to escape their own four walls, they let themselves be carried by the music with their singing and rediscovered countries, cities and cultures for themselves.

“Music is emotion, imagination and movement. That’s why we dedicate part of our program to the fragile world situation and sing about people’s longing for peace and freedom,” explains jazz singer Marie Séférian, whose voice, delicate, incredibly slender and at the same time full of expressiveness, runs through the pieces like brightly shining lines. Her father Jean-Claude Séférian, who is considered one of the few authentic interpreters of French chanson in Germany, blends their voices in a congenial way with his warm and powerful timbre, always carried by the soundscape that Christiane Séférian spreads out for them on the piano.

After the successful program “Un Homme et une Femme”, which Marie and Jean-Claude Séférian presented from the Elbphilharmonie Hamburg to the Deutsches Theater in Munich, their new program “Invitation au voyage” alternates songs by Charles Aznavour, Jacques Brel and other greats of chanson with jazz standards and original compositions. In addition to French chanson classics such as “Paroles Paroles” and chart hits such as “Voyage voyage”, they perform the Latin hit “Besame mucho” in Spanish, the famous Duke Ellington song “Take the A-Train” in English and their own composition “Auf Wiedersehen” in German – their universal language always remains the language of music.

Marie & Jean Claude Séférian (vocals), Christiane Rieger Séférian (piano), Julia Czerniawska (violin), Tim Kleinsorge (bass), Javier Reyes (drums & percussion)