Griboïedov's Burning Blues - 2014
Moriarty
Moriarty is a musical collective made up of five artists of French, American, Swiss and Vietnamese origin, formed in 1995. The members were mainly born in France to American parents. The group was named Moriarty in reference to Dean Moriarty, the hero of On the Road by Jack Kerouac.
Moriarty went from performing traditional blues to rock'n'roll. In 2007, they released their first album, Gee Whiz But This Is a Lonesome Town. The group began a long French tour which started in April 2008, followed by concerts in Switzerland, Canada, Spain, Germany and England. In 2008, Moriarty played at quite some festivals, among which the Montreux Jazz Festival. They also performed at the Olympia theatre in Paris, to a sold-out audience.
In 2011, the band released the album The Missing Room, followed in 2012 by their third album Fugitives.
On April 22, 2014, Moriarty played at the Ancienne Belgique in Brussels, Belgium, where they presented the song Long Live The (D)evil, which was introduced by singer Rosemary Standley as being inspired by Mikhail Bulgakov’s The Master and Margarita.
Long Live The (D)evil appeared to be one of the songs they had made for the radio play Griboïedov's Burning Blues, created by the French radio maker Alexandre Plank (°1979) and playwright Pauline Thimonnier, which was represented at the Festival d'Avignon on July 14, 2014. The radio play has been recorded for the series Pop Fiction by the French radio station France Culture.
In January 2015, Moriarty recorded the songs of the play to include them in their next album Epitaph.
The songs
Moriarty - Long Live The (D)evil
Moriarty - When I Ride
Moriarty - Fire Fire
Moriarty - Across From My Windows
The complete podcast
Moriarty - Griboïedov's Burning Blues
Moriarty
Technical details
Musicians
Rosemary Standley (Rosemary Moriarty) - lead vocal, guitar
Thomas Puéchavy (Tom Moriarty) - harmonica, accordion, jew's harp
Arthur B. Gillette (Arthur Moriarty) - guitar, piano, keyboards, backing vocals
Stephan Zimmerli (Zim Moriarty) - double bass, guitar, backing vocals
Charles Carmignac, (Charles Moriarty) - dobro, electric guitar
Vincent Talpaert and Éric Tafani - drums, percussion
Video
Click on the arrow below to watch Moriarty performing the song Long Live The Devil in Brussels.
