Bonnie Banane and Joseph Schiano di Lombo form an unexpected and magnetic duo, bringing together two singular artistic paths in L’Orguasme—an album of bawdy and devotional songs performed on the grand organ of the Cité de la Musique / Philharmonie de Paris.
Born in Brittany in 1987, Bonnie Banane is a singer-songwriter and an iconoclastic figure on the French music scene. With alchemical flair, she seeks to reconcile the most opposing realities: cold death, burning passion, and all the timid in- betweens that few songs ever honor.
Joseph Schiano di Lombo, born in Chambéry in 1991, is a composer, writer, and visual artist. Navigating between farce and seriousness, references and intuitions, grotesque and minimalism, pop culture and academia, he challenges dominant modes of thought and creation.
Together, they repurpose the organ from its centuries-old traditions to celebrate pleasure in all its forms. Between restrained sighs and mystical outbursts, RnB, swing, gospel, and medieval ballads intertwine in a union of the sacred and the profane. At once burlesque, mystical, and poetic, their music celebrates body and spirit with joyful abandon.