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The Capsul Collectif association was created in 2011 in Tours by former students of the Jazz à Tours school in order to mutualize production support functions. A democratically organized structure bringing together artists, technicians and administrators, its objectives are to provide artistic teams with a working tool to promote production, exploitation, distribution, phonographic production and the external mobility of artists. Capsul Collectif carries out permanent programs for the inhabitants of the working-class districts of Tours, contributing to the fight against inequalities of access to works and artistic practices.Capsul Collectif has adopted a decision-making model that conforms to the practices in force in cooperative structures, the principle "One person=One vote" is implemented in all our deliberation processes. The artistic direction of the Collective is ensured by all the musicians who compose it, it is impossible to give an exhaustive account of the musicians' backgrounds here.The Collective is composed of 14 formations: Ymir, Nour, Circé, Steak, Orion, Baishi, Rank-O, Sololo, Jogging, Jim Ballon, Les Pompiers, Daumenkino Trio, Tournez Nadège and Electric Vocuhila.What best defines Capsul Collectif is a certain way of considering music as a creative and bubbling craft, with three main stylistic influences: traditional music, free-jazz and alternative rock.The musicians who form the Collective share a specific relationship to improvisation and to the traditions of jazz and improvised music. This shared relationship to a well-defined aesthetic corpus can be explained by the musical training that the artists of the structure have received.The artisanal approach is materialized by the groups' desire to master all aspects of the making of their music. From the recording to the organization of tours to the promotion of their work. The collective assumes a certain heterogeneity in the exploitation of the groups in a preoccupation of solidarity and defense of the aesthetic diversity.

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Administration: The Collective produces the concerts and the groups' work time, ensuring the responsibility of employer of the artistic platforms. The Collective has two permanent employees in charge of administration, production, programs for the public, institutional relations and external mobility.Production: The Collective designs and implements residency periods. The objectives of these work periods are to renew the repertory of the formations, to deal with technical questions on stage, to produce elements of communication in order to favour the exploitation of the shows.In 2023, the collective is implementing the residencies of Rank-O; Jim Ballon: Ymir and Baishi.Phonographic production: The Collective participates in the production of the groups' recordings, through the label "Capsul Records". The collective works regularly with labels to ensure the phonographic production of the groups: Another Record and Figures Libres for Rank-O and Jim Ballon; Another Record for Electric Vocuhila; Kythibong for Nour; Kshantu until 2020 for Yachtclub.Diffusion: The groups of the Collective give between 120 and 160 concerts per year. More than 7% of the concerts take place outside the region. The groups occur in the networks of the current music scenes, the national scenes, the festivals, the places of intermediate size, the third places and the cafés-concerts.Promotion: The collective ensures the promotion of the groups near the diffusers. Some of the groups ensure their own distribution by relying on mutualized tools made available by the collective. The collective collaborates with tour operators as was the case with Kshantu for the groups Yachtclub and Jogging until 2021. The structure Konsato ensures the function of turner for the group Rank-O since 2019. In order to promote the work of the groups to the media, the collective regularly collaborates with press officers (Sèverine Berger, Marc Chonier, Ugo Tanguy..)Audiences: The Capsul Collective conceives programs for the population with the objective of encouraging a sensitive relationship between the works and the public. These actions are implemented through permanent programs in the territory where the collective is established. International mobility: In collaboration with the structure Yanaï Lab, the collective works on different programs of external cooperation. The Electric Vocuhila and the Malagasy artists of the group Behaja in 2022, and the prefiguration of a displacement of the artist So-lo-lo, in Indonesia (2024). Since 2022, the booking structure Annibale Booking ensures the promotion of the group Rank-O on the European distribution networks. A partnership with Nathalie Bonneveau, in charge of diffusion specialized in the European territory, concerning the groups Electric Vocuhila, Circé and So-lo-lo began in 2022.Translated with www.DeepL.com/Translator (free version)