Pyrenean-born
Nicole Peyrafitte is a performance artist who sings, paints,
films, writes & cooks. She draws on her eclectic heritage
to perform songs ranging from French cabaret to jazz standards
and contemporary poetry. Her voice work is often integrated
into multimedia stagings based on her visuals (paintings and/or
videos) and writings, & involves the onstage preparation
and cooking of a dish, to be shared with the audience. Her work
addresses the experiences of negotiating her identity across
two continents and four languages. She performs domestically
and internationally. Nicole has two CD's out: “The
Bi-Continental Chowder /La Garbure Transcontinentale”
released in 2006 and "Whisk!Don't Churn!"
(both released with Ta’wil productions). Nicole’s
blog “Collectages
/ Recordings of Foods & A®titudes” .
"Nicole Peyrafitte
is a brilliant and most original performer. Her vocalizations,
her songs, her gestures are provocative: both stunningly beautiful
and powerfully unnerving at times. She is the chthonic goddess
come to tempt you, scare you, transform you. She is in the poetic
lineage of Greek tragedy, Café Voltaire antics, of dada
and surrealist play but with a post-modern, hip sensibility.
I am transfixed when she's on stage." -- Poet/Performer
Anne Waldman
“…Performance
artist Nicole Peyrafitte serves up some very interesting sound-scapes
and emotional improvisations on her new CD entitled “La
Garbure Transcontinentale / The Bi-Continental Chowder”.
Alternating between French and English poetics, Peyrafitte attempts
to help the listener make the connection that she has made through
her heuristic research in America and in France... the Bi-Continental
Chowder is a very tasty and imaginative work. With Peyrafitte’s
vocal borrowings from Meredith Monk and Yoko Ono and a band
that lends credence to her vocal explorations, this CD is definitely
recommended for those listeners in need of an ear stretching.
--Darryl Gregory
- Indie-Music.com
