Sarah Murcia
Origin: France
In the world of improvised music, jazz and musical creation, Sarah Murcia is a familiar, respected and essential figure. Above all, she is a tireless explorer, curious about every artistic encounter.
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In the world of improvised music, jazz and musical creation, Sarah Murcia is a familiar, respected and essential figure. Above all, she is a tireless explorer, curious about all artistic encounters. In 2001, after a decade with the Magic Malik Orchestra, Sarah Murcia founded the group Caroline.
It was with this group, reinforced by pianist Benoît Delbecq and dancer-singer Mark Tompkins, that Sarah Murcia released a daring and captivating album, ‘Never Mind the Future’, a variation on the Sex Pistols' famous “Never Mind the Bollocks”.
With the same team, she then created "My Mother is a Fish", inspired by Faulkner's novel "Tandis que J'agonise" and then "Song Reader".
She also pursued projects with the Palestinian singer and oud player Kamilya Jubran, and set up new groups, ‘Eyeballing’, with Benoit Delbecq (piano), Olivier Py (saxophones) and François Thuillier (tuba) and ‘Sleeping animals’ with Mat Maneri - violin, Bruno Ducret - cello, Christophe Lavergne - drums.
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Line-up: Sarah Murcia - double bass | Mat Maneri - violin | Bruno Ducret - cello | Christophe Lavergne - drums
Double bassist Sarah Murcia has teamed up with Mat Maneri, Bruno Ducret and Christophe Lavergne to create Sleeping Animals, an ambitious project combining strings and drums. She explores micro-tonality, polyrhythm and influences ranging from free jazz to punk rock. A unique quartet, both powerful and delicate, in which each musician fashions a shifting language, blurring the boundaries between the written and the improvised.
Premiere @ Jazzdor - Berlin June 2025
Line-up: Sarah Murcia (ac.bass) & Kamilya Jubran (oud,vocal)
The encounter between an extraordinary Palestinian singer and oudist, Kamilya Jubran, and an equally unmissable Franco-Spanish bassist-leader, Sarah Murcia. Rhythm and verb are linked, the multicolored Arabic word-poetry wraps around sounds.
Line-up: Sarah Murcia/ac.basse, vocal, keyboards - Olivier Py/sax - Benoit Delbecq/piano - François Thuillier/tuba
Sarah Murcia, double bassist, pianist, composer and producer, is a musician of insolence and salutary relevance, with her heart anchored in a fertile, danceable and indocile beat - all of which is already an exception to the doctrine of the perfume of the month.
She dreamt up this new album, and made it in Paris with the help of producer Steve Argüelles.
She dreamt of a tuba and songs, instrumentals, texts by Vic Moan and a song by Denis Scheubel too, the one in the middle of the album.
Eyeballing brings together Sarah Murcia and tuba player François Thuillier, a soloist who seems to have burst out of a galaxy populated by virtuosos who fear nothing, and two of his regular acolytes, Olivier Py, a saxophonist with an incandescent sonority and an imagination that seems infinite, and pianist Benoît Delbecq, who plays his e-drums with a playful and learned joy: He's the group's drummer and his mini-keyboards.
In recent years, Sarah Murcia has performed with Kamilya Jubran, Louis Sclavis, Rodolphe Burger, Magic Malik, as well as leading her own groups Caroline, Beau Catcheur (with Fred Poulet), Habka, and with her group ‘Never Mind the Future’, which covers the Sex Pistols in the company of the legendary choreographer, dancer and now singer Mark Tompkins. As you can see, Sarah Murcia's freedom and savoir-faire are at the forefront of tomorrow's jazz and pop, as well as taking Oriental music in a totally new direction. And that's just the beginning.
That's what we call talent, undeniably, and it's a great talent.
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