About

Clara Ysé,

fire horses, fairy syncope.

It is said that the poem was originally a song. Like all mythologies, it has become untraceable. Yet, listening to Clara Ysé, her cavalcade words, her verse-prophecy, her voice arching from shadow to light, one believes one sees the poem embodied. The singer-poet and her prodigious musicians make their way through a forest with unclassifiable symbols as they borrow and synthesize various rhythm-myths. French pop, soprano scales, Latin American folk, song, the singer advances, in balance, between worlds, at the edge of words, and unites them in a powerful, mesmerizing and generous show.

Justine Okolodkoff