The press from 1966 to 1987
“….If syncretism pertains to the merging of several cultures, then Craissac is the “syntechrist” of a music half-way between Olivier Messiaen and Klaus Schulze…”
Sigma festival – C. Grené – 1987
“…One must go hear Jacky Craissac not only for his real skills as a musician, but to discover new sound tools born in the imagination of this strange man, penetrating no doubt the symphonic world of half a century or so…”
Ville de Bordeaux – Sud Ouest – 1987
“…Jacky Craissac is one of the few French percussionists who has engaged in research at a level which likens him to the great modern creators. Today his art, in a perpetual state of creation, feeds solely on invention…”
Musique – Jacky Craissac médite au Fémina -Sud Ouest – F. Mothe – 1984
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“Therapeutic sounds? There is of that. Except that the evil to be cured is purely educational, a sort of vast sensory infirmity of the individual reduced to standard behavior from which he persists in not emerging.
Physiological pulsations – Sud Ouest – B. Lastera – 1984
This is what Craissac explains: “I was surprised a long time ago that people’s expression did not correspond to their inner reality. They refuse to express their privacy.
It’s a host of sensations, repressed feelings that translate into a life of unease. People lie to themselves. Even when they have carried out this search for their inner life, they have a reflex of hindsight.”
“…The “Symphony for 50 Timbres and Instruments” filling my head with tumult, reminds me surprisingly of the concertos of Haendel and Bach – same musical perfection, same life drive, same madness…”
C. Guignard – Revue Musique – 1983
1983 – Danse Musique : Arcadonites
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1983 – Gong for a new musical awakening – Sud Ouest – R.-A. Guibot
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“…This “Suite for percussion” contains all the fury, tenderness and passion of the artist. Jacky Craissac has just given a concert in Paris, and the audience has received warmly this concert of timbres, this torrential life, this thundering sound…”
Critique Festival Sigma – Sud Ouest – 1980
1981 – Jacky Craissac “I don’t have a Western head” – Sud Ouest – Sylvain Viaut
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“…Pushing the sound to its climax, Jacky Craissac suddenly alights on exquisitely soft shores again. He caresses and sculpts, whispers and confides, as if he were talking to the birds. Indisputably, Jacky Craissac is one of the most creative percussionnist of his generation…”
F. Mothe – Sud Ouest – January 1980
1981 – Jacky Craissac may have found his wisdom – Sud Ouest – J.-L. Oriou
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1980 – The return to the sources of Jacky Craissac – Sud Ouest – F. Mothe
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1980 – JC at the end of the month in Bordeaux – Sud Ouest
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1980 – Jacky Craissac at Germinal – Imprimatur n° 243 – C. Guinard
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1980 – Eyzines- Childhood fortnight
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1979 – LA MARNE Workshop: Jacky Craissac and the inner rhythm at the Chelles cultural center
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1976 – Percussion at school – A musical initiation like no other in Montanou – Sud Ouest
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“…Jacky Craissac is a percussionist who, alone on stage, amidst some 30 percussion instruments, composes a somptuous symphony of timbres… “
C. Baignères – Le Figaro – 25 novembre 1974
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1974 – Trombinoscope Jacky Craissac – Interview : M. Jammet – Tendance Bordeaux, hebdomadaire régional d’information n°7
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“Even if Craissac declares to be a fervent admirer of Max Roach, his style is certainly closer to that of Roy Haynes, but more by the extreme rigor of his musical structures, than by the style in itself and for itself. which at home is, without any doubt, more modern and current.“
Claudio Lo Cascio – Palermo Festival – 1966
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