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PRESS
"...conspicuously free-spirited and improvisation-fluent..." JAZZ TIMES
"..(Constables') wordless voice murmurs and snakes..." TIME OUT NEW YORK
"...Constable summoning ghosts ..." DUSTED REVIEW
"...delicately visceral ..." THE NEW YORK TIMES
“Constable's wordless vocalizing instils either a sense of harrowing urgency or a sublime sequence of musical events" ALL ABOUT JAZZ
"Using freely improvised lyrics delivered with a clear ringing tone, she phrases her flowing lines like an instrumentalist, using hints of electronics to process the sound... a delicate lyricism.." SIGNAL TO NOISE MAGAZINE
"wavering multivalent sound..." OREGAN STUDENT INSURGENT
"Jessica Constable delivers stellar vocal energy" OUTLIER
"shimmering vocalizings" BAGATELLEN
"Jessica Constable, effectively breaks any hard-wired preconception of the voice's hierarchy within a musical framework ... Free of conventional singing limitations, Constable ... prefers to work within the dynamic of broken, juxtaposed syllables and abstraction .. unrestricted by the spoken word's explicit meaning, the listener is free to draw context and emotion that change with subsequent hearings and the listener's own mood" ALL ABOUT JAZZ.COM
"... ethereal poly-tonal vocalise..." JUNKMEDIA Magazine
"She uses jazz inflections and flirts with strange vocal sounds, while delivering things that could be lyrics but really aren’t ...let me tell you it’s far out." KFJC
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"..sa conception presque minimaliste du chant.." CITIZEN JAZZ.COM
"ses troublantes dérives vocales" JAZZ MAGAZINE
"une révélation" NOVA MAGAZINE
" Constable séduit immédiatement avec son ton éthéré, son chant-parlé qui a du style et du mystère" TRIP-HOP.NET
"Jessica Constable nous cueille" JAZZMAN
"la présence magnétique de Jessica Constable, qui chante déjà très bien... et fait en plus un excellent usage du chaos pad" CODA MAGAZINE
BIOGRAPHY
Jessica Constable is a British composer, singer and improviser (voice) living in Rennes, France.
Recent and/or ongoing work include: solo performances, concerts and recordings with collaborator of the last 16 years, keyboardist Philippe Gelda (France), and with Andrea Parkins (USA) and with composer/poet Christophe Guiraud/ Tellemake (France). She tours with composer / tenor saxophonist Ellery Eskelin and his trio, including electronic accordionist/laptop artist Andrea Parkins and drummer Jim Black, and has also recorded two critically acclaimed CDs with the band: Ten -- also featuring guest artists Marc Ribot (guitar) and Melvin Gibbs (electric bass), and Quiet Music featuring Philippe Gelda (keyboards, vocal).
She has recorded two albums with The Flow (U.K.) and plays with French jazz patriarch Francois Jeanneau's Pandemonium big band. In recent years she has played for theatre, and for choreographers Patricia Ferrara and Pascal Delhay; performed and recorded with Soulreactive and with Jeff Sharel, Jean-Phi Dary , (all of France) as well as performing Anahit Simonian’s concerto for voice, doudouk (Araik Bahtakian) and symphonic orchestra, conducted by Alexander Sladkovsky at The Hermitage, St Petersburg, Russia.
In 2008 she has also been performing with John Greaves (bass, piano and voice) and Francois Jeanneau (soprano saxophone), Olivier Mellano (guitar), Regis Boulard (drums), Jean-Francois Vrod (violin and contraptions).
Her first audio play “ Underbreath Drama!” is being set as a 3D installation in collaboration with French visual artist Morgane Lepinay and will be exhibiting around the world in 2009/2010. Constable is currently composing her second audio play “Peals of Scream”. She is president of the contemporary art exhibition and pedagogical organization “Choses et Non-Choses” based in Brittany, France.
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