A shade of Ravel and Debussy blends with the sounds of the Pampas
| Website: lashermanascaronni.com |
| Presskit: Download |
| Origin: Argentina |
| Based in: France |
| Booking: Sabina Schebrak |
| Territories: Worldwide except France |
Live
| 08/05/26 | World Town Festival | Waldshut-Tiengen | Germany | |
| 10/05/26 | Kulturkeller | Neuss | Germany | |
About
Two Argentinian sisters with Swiss, Italian, Russian-Jewish and Spanish roots. Laura and Gianna Caronni, one of whom plays the cello and the other the clarinet, and both sing. The twins have been living in France for decades and make wonderful music that sounds like the sum of their influences: European impressionism à la Ravel and Debussy, echoes of South American composers such as Villa-Lobos and the spirit of tango blend with the melancholy and purposefulness of the folk music of the Pampas, seasoned with a light pinch of jazz and chanson. Their music glows with the embers of rural Argentina, but also with the light of the Midi; it sounds fragile, intelligent, intimate and yet lush thanks to imaginative minimalist arrangements. Clever, discretely sensual and incredibly elegant, the Hermanas Caronni play for people who still cherish values like refinement and class. With their unmistakable style, they have conquered both the international press and audiences at major venues in Europe and beyond.
El Espacio del Tiempo – A poetic exploration of space and time
After four albums acclaimed for their elegance and originality, Las Hermanas Caronni present their fifth work, El Espacio del Tiempo. With original compositions and sensitive reinterpretations of great classics of Argentine and Brazilian music, the album explores the poetry of time: its slowness, its bursts of light, its absences. Inspired by the poems of Silvia Baron Supervielle, the seascapes of Brittany and their childhood memories in Argentina, the two sisters open musical windows onto nature: the lapping of the water, the rustling of the wind, the rhythm of the seasons, the vastness of the landscape.
‘Most of our songs celebrate the beauty of the world: nature, the earth, water, trees… Water, earth and air are among the most sacred elements of our planet.’ Laura Caronni
“You could say it’s a Breton soundscape seen through the eyes of an Argentinean. When I lived in Brittany, I discovered the sea, which seemed to me like a huge blue pampa. The poems of the great Silvia Barón Supervielle and the paintings of Geneviève Asse accompanied me on this journey, both in the colours and textures and in the impression of vastness conveyed by their works, which are so closely linked to the landscape of Morbihan and the plains of my childhood. Gianna Caronni
Line up
Gianna Caronni – clarinet, vocals
Laura Caronni – cello, vocals
Discography
2025 El Espacio del Tiempo (Les Grands Fleuves / L’ Autre Distribution)
2019 Santa Plástica (Les Grands Fleuves / L’ Autre Distribution)
2015 Navega Mundos (Les Grands Fleuves / L’ Autre Distribution)
2014 Baguala de la Siesta, Remix (Les Grands Fleuves / L’ Autre Distribution)
2013 Vuela! (Les Grands Fleuves / L’ Autre Distribution)
2011 Baguala de la Siesta (Snail Records/Coast to Coast)
Press
“Highly individualistic compositions that also embrace Buenos Aires salon chic, Argentinian folk and jazz…. Las Hermanas Caronni engage and enchant while nudging into art-house territory.”
Rhythms (AU) on Santa Plastica
„…a wonderfully unexpected, spare joy…superb on every level.“
fRoots (UK) on Navegamundos“Two voices, a cello, a clarinet – that’s all they need for their chamber musical reveries.”
Kulturwelt, Bayern 2, DE“This delightful album, being warm and melancholic at the same time, depictures the two faces of exile: the deep pain and the possibility to reinvent everything”.
Libération, FR“THE discovery of the season. Right after the programme we received an avalanche of emails and enthusiastic comments that carried this self-produced, almost anonymous CD on to another life.”
France Inter, FR“Their eclectic lyricism, evocative vocal harmonies and inventive stretching and recombination of cello and clarinet technique reveal a sublime poetic mastery that defies categorisation. … There is more unassuming passion, beauty and wisdom in these 13 tangos, canciones, chacareras, milongas and a closing baguala than many artists cab claim in a lifetime.”
Folk Roots, UK