Quatuor Voce

Modern Ruin

Voce Quartet

Cécile Roubin, violin

Sarah Dayan, violin

Guillaume Becker, viola

Lydia Shelley, cello

Kyrie Kristmanson, voice

Kyrie Kristmanson is a Canadian singer who likes to navigate between stripped-down North American folk and distant memories of the European Middle Ages.

In Paris, she met the Quatuor Voce, a creative exponent of the art of the string quartet. Together with arranger Clément Ducol, whose musical range extends from the singer Camille to the contemporary ensemble 2E2M, they explore the love songs of troubadour women known as trobairitz.

The result is a marvellously singular piece of music, a dreamlike, moving kaleidoscope reminiscent of Dead Can Dance, Kronos Quartet, Malicorne and Kate Bush. An unexpected continuity between the freedom of some medieval women and the audacity of today's artists. A magical atmosphere that plunges us out of time.