Le 7eme Gnome (the 7th Dwarf) is a Jazz-Pop gem, a duo filled with energy, groove and emotions. No matter what your age is, it is impossible not to be drawn into the original universe of this Chilean-French tandem. Although they are only two, the pair’s impressively rich sound is totally astounding. The two musicians deliver a performance astonishingly free from all conventions or dogmas, infused with a refreshing versatility and endless creativity. With equal joy, they mix jazz,  pop, world music, blues, soul, rock, Latin music and French tunes. It is indeed fascinating to see and listen to this couple, and witness their intense complicity, both on stage and in life, ever since they met in Paris about 15 years ago.

 On stage, the 7eme Gnome delivers fresh improvisations imbued with a true sense of pleasure, as they generously share through their music a mix of humor, fantasy, beauty, and political commitment. Their unique style is one of extravaganza and originality.

Sibylle, a former actress who has been trained in clown techniques, is very expressive on stage, and displays an impressive vocal range. She has developed an incredibly flexible voice, capable of foraying in unexpected directions, thanks to her very special, fun spirit. Her vocal feats are all the more surprising considering she is petite. Still, with an outstanding energy, the singer expresses her music in a very physical way. As an accomplished musician, she scats playfully, then sets to play on her keyboards with passion, as an enthusiast of 70s-style synthesizers.

As for her partner Ismael, he takes on a unique and impressive musical challenge. A talented trumpet player, he moves gracefully on stage, as if dancing a very intricate ballet, alternating between  trumpet, drums, and electric guitar. He uses several effect pedals and two loop stations, which allow him to record sound sequences, and then synchronize them with a sampler and two drum machines. He manages a very accurate timing, and sometimes seems to be in two places at once. As he directs his own personal orchestra, he creates new soundscapes, and poetically blows dreams out of his trumpet.

Free as birds, Sibylle and Ismael travel with the wind, bringing their music on the road, in a nomadic lifestyle that suits them well. Since 2010, they have produced and interpreted no less than five albums, soon six ! They compose together, with Sibylle writing lyrics in French and English, while Spanish lyrics are penned by Ismael. He also does the arrangements and the final sound mastering of their albums. Apart from their own compositions, the duo also enjoys adapting tunes from other artists. Relentless travelers, they are always planning their next trip, and are regularly on tour, either in France or abroad.

Their new and sixth album "Psyché Animale" will be released at 

the famous parisian jazz club, The Sunset-Sunside, on Nov. 24th, 2022.

In 2015, the 7eme Gnome was awarded the First Prize for Interpreters at the Truffe d’Argent festival, organised by the French national radio in Burgundy. In 2012, they also won the 3rd Prize from the Audience at Crest Vocal Jazz Festival.

Some stats: 5 albums, over 1,000 shows in France and    elsewhere : Brazil, Chile, Mexico, Costa Rica, Haiti,  Russia, Germany, the  United Kingdom, Spain, Switzerland,  Italy, Denmark, The Netherlands, Austria, …

El 7mo Gnomo es una perla rara del jazz-pop, un duo lleno de energía, de groove y de emoción. De 7 a 77 años, una música intergeneracional que lleva al publico a un viaje en el universo original de la dupla franco-chilena. Dos en el escenario, y un sonido nutrido de colores que sorprende e hipnotiza. Los dos músicos, al margen de las casillas, proponen un show de una variedad y creatividad asombrosas. En la selva sonica del 7 Gnomo se mezclan el jazz, pop, rock, world music, blues,  música latina y francesa….Es impresionante ver y escuchar la complicidad intensa de estos dos músicos en el escenario,  compañeros en la vida desde el momento que se encontraron en Paris hace 16 años. Los conciertos del 7mo Gnomo destilan frescura, improvisación y placer, artistas generosos; en su música hay humor, locura,  belleza, y compromiso con la época actual. Se escucha un sonido original y caprichoso.

Sibylle, con una gran experiencia como actriz-clown, esta dotada de una sorprendente expresividad, con una voz de una increíble elasticidad,  llena de emoción, y un enfoque lúdico del canto. La cantante improvisa con malicia y toca el piano con fluidez, fan de sonidos setenteros.

Ismael propone una configuración instrumental original, trompetista de multiples talentos, se desplaza con gracia, en un ballet que divierte por la complejidad, entre la trompeta, guitarra y la  bateria. La guitarra conectada a un loop-station que esta sincronizado a un sampler y dos secuenciadores de ritmos. Al verlo pasar de un lado para otro pareciera que Ismael esta dotado del don de la ubicuidad. Creador autónomo de paisajes sonoros inéditos, director de su propia orquesta, es todo al mismo tiempo, soplador de sueños y soñador de soplos.

Nómadas ingeniosos, libres como el aire, Sibylle e Ismael van donde el viento los lleva con su música y son felices asi. Desde el 2010 han producido 5 discos (proximamente 6!), compartiendo entre los dos todo el proceso de creación y producción. Viajeros indomables, el 7mo Gnomo ha compartido su música en mas de 15 países.

El nuevo y 6to disco del 7mo Gnomo saldra a fines de Junio del 2022 !

En 2015 ganan el 1er premio de « La Truffe d’Argent, concurso de Radio Francia, categoria interprete, y en 2012 obtienen en 3er lugar otorgado por el publico del concurso de Crest Jazz Vocal.

               Singer, master improviser, songwriter,

                       composer, and pianist,

        Sibylle started her artistic career as a clown.

    Music has always been part of her life. From the age of 7, she cheerfully studied classical piano in a public music school in Paris region. Inspired by jazz music, she rebelled at age 17 against the strict rules and repertoire of the school, and followed her own way... in acting. At 19, she created the circus project « Pirouette en Bolivie » (Pirouette in Bolivia), and, with the support from the Unesco, got the opportunity to tour in the Bolivian Altiplano. Back in Paris, she studied Modern Literature and Performing Arts at Paris X-Nanterre University, but was always drawn to the circus’ large tents standing behind the Faculty. Once her post-graduation completed, she started her training as a clown at « Tralala Splatch - Théâtre Sauvage », a traveling theater company. That is when she discovered she had a talent for improvisation – both with voice and the body -, and could explore a universal imaginary language.

  She then opted for a bohemian lifestyle and went on to study a variety of performing techniques : clown and buffoonery, butô dance, gesture theater, manipulation of objects, jugglery, stilts,  chromatic accordion... For several years, she worked as an actress in various companies. In 2004, the burlesque musical performance « La Do Mi Nations », which she wrote in collaboration with Ismael Galvez, was awarded the Paris Jeunes Talents Prize. This allowed them to travel to Port-au-Prince, Haiti, and perform around the island with the support of the Alliance française and Institut Culturel Français. This marked the first of a series of successful collaborations with her future husband, Ismael.

 A turning point in her career was a world music singing workshop, where she discovered her own voice. Gradually, she set on to explore jazz singing, in particular, scatting techniques. From then on, she decided to focus entirely on music, and soon started performing. She sang in Jazz and Latin bands, in a range going from trio to sextet. As an experienced busker, she performed around  France and Europe.

Today, Sibylle is a self-taught artist who is always studying and training her voice, as well as composing and songwriting in English and French. She also takes part in workshops with jazz singers or voice coaches such as Michèle Hendricks, Guislaine Delassus (at the Nadia et Lili BerangerSchool in Paris), Letizia Morelli.

Along with Ismael Galvez, she has founded the band « 7eme Gnome » (The Seventh Dwarf) and has recorded six albums to date. She also composes for other artists, such as the track "Wide Breath" for the documentary film « Nez sous une bonne étoile » by Céline Kélépikis, or the track « Petite Tortue », for the album by Michèle Brousse « La Madone des Paumés ». She has also recorded several soul-pop covers for the French videogame studio Ubisoft  (Amy Winehouse, Britney Spears, among others).

     Cantante, improvisadora, autora y compositora, pianista,

        comenzó su carrera como comediante clown.

   La música es parte de su vida. A la edad de 7 años comienza sus estudios de piano clásico en un conservatorio de Paris, que continua hasta los 17 años, momento en que no se siente bien con el programa estricto del conservatorio, y siente las ganas de hacer musica mas libremente. En la búsqueda de la libertad artística Sibylle se interesa a las artes del circo, y dos años después crea un proyecto con 2 otras personas, que sostenido por la Unesco, parten al altiplano Boliviano a  hacer talleres de circo para los niños y presentaciones de numero de clown y malabarismo.

Estudiante de Letras modernas y de El arte del espectáculo,en la Universidad Paris X-Nanterre, Sibylle es atraída por las carpas de circo que están atrás de la Universidad, y sigue una formación de Clown, en « Tralala Splatch Théâtre Sauvage » circo teatro itinerante, y trabaja con la compania durante un año . Es aquí que nace su pasión por la improvisación vocal corporal y el lenguaje imaginario y universal.

En un mundo que te empuja al formataje, ella elige la vida bohemia, y sigue diferentes formaciones de Clown, bouffon, Buto, teatro gestual, manipulación de objeto, malabarismo, zancos, acordeón cromático, y durante algunos años trabaja con diferentes compañías de teatro y danza buto. Escribe y dirige la pieza « La do mi Nation » con la que gana el premio  "Paris Jeunes Talents" en 2004 y hace una gira en Haiti con el Instituto Frances en Puerto Principe Haiti, y en todas las Alianzas Francesas del Pais. Esa sera la primera creación en binomio con Ismael Galvez, el principio de un largo camino juntos. En un taller de canto del mundo Sibylle descubre su voz, y se lanza al jazz y la improvisación vocal, poco a poco el undergraund musical parisino remplazo las carpas de circo itinerante y decide dedicarse al canto. Sigue diferentes formaciones de jazz vocal con Michele Hendricks, Guislaine Delassus en el conservatorio Nadia el Lili Beranger en Paris, Letizia Morelli…y trabaja con diferentes formaciones de jazz, musica latina, musica francesa. En 2010 crea El 7mo Gnomo con Ismael, con el que graba hasta hoy dia 6 discos, como autora y compositora, ademas compone "Wide breath" para el documental  "Nez sous une bonne étoile", editado por L’Harmattan, y la canción "Petite tortue" para el disco "La madone des paumés" de Michele Brousse. También colabora con Ubisoft en la grabación de varios temas de artistas pop soul como Amy Winehouse y Britney Spears.

Artiste voyageur, né au Chili, trompettiste aux multiples talents, guitariste, batteur, auteur, compositeur et arrangeur, il est créatif, audacieux,  d’une curiosité boulimique. Ismael est un autodidacte.

Très jeune, il a ressenti un engouement pour la musique. Malgré un climat culturel éteint dans les années 80 au Chili, pays en pleine dictature, il a cherché toutes les sources possibles d’enseignement musical et apprend à 12 ans à jouer de la guitare. Quelques années plus tard, il s’initie seul à la trompette, réalisant un rêve caché. Il entreprend à la fois des études d’ingénierie du son et d’anthropologie à Santiago du Chili,  où il est bien difficile d’envisager une carrière de musiciens quand la famille n’est pas du métier.  Avec sa trompette comme bagage, il décide de partir étudier l’ethnologie à Mexico DF, où il découvre un monde beaucoup plus ouvert, avec une vie culturelle et musicale prodigieusement riche. C’est bien la musique qui le passionne. Laissant de côté l’anthropologie, il participe avec enthousiasme comme auditeur libre aux cours de l’ « Escuela Superior de musica » de Mexico, section jazz.

Il  travaille comme trompettiste dans de nombreuses formations au Mexique durant 5 années, avant de partir s’installer à Paris où il poursuit sa vie de musicien. Il s’intéresse de plus près aux musiques électroniques. Il se forme à la musique électro-acoustique avec le professeur Gino Favotti au Conservatoire du 20èmearrondissement à Paris, et suit plusieurs formations de traitements de son (logiciels Ableton Live, Expert, Max for Live…). Il compose les musiques de nombreux spectacles vivants pour diverses compagnies de théâtre et de danse. Il est le trompettiste de l’orchestre du Cirque de Paris («Une journée au cirque») pendant deux ans. Il travaille également dans différentes formations jazz et pop, et comme musicien de studio (notamment avec Manu Lanvin).

Curieux, touche à tout, il prend des cours de batterie auprès de Philippe Gleizes, des cours de guitare auprès d’Yves Brouqui. Depuis 2010, Il se consacre entièrement à sa musique, au 7ème Gnome, essayant de développer une configuration acoustique et électronique originale, alternant la trompette, la guitare, la batterie, les loops stations, les sampler, les boîtes à rythmes et les pédales d’effets. Il est en permanence dans une exploration musicale, passionné d’expérimentations sonores, en quête de textures, de climats, d’atmosphères et de nouvelles combinaisons.

Ismael is a self-taught artist born in Chile. Always on the road, he is a talented trumpet player, guitarist, drummer, songwriter, composer and arranger known for his curiosity and audacity.

At a very young age, he felt drawn to music, and despite a relative cultural apathy during the 1980s   in a submissive Chile still under a dictatorship, tried to learn music in all ways possible. He started playing the guitar at the age of 12, and a few years later, learned the trumpet on his own, which had been a secret dream. He then studied Sound Engineering and Anthropology in Santiago,  but discovered the hardships of making a career in music without having grown in this milieu. He then packed his trumpet, and left Chile to study Ethnology in Mexico, D.F. There, he discovered a much more open society, with an extraordinary rich cultural and musical heritage. His passion for music was confirmed, and so he left aside Anthropology studies to engage exclusively as an auditor at Mexico’s Escuela Superior de música, in the Jazz section.

For the following five years, he worked as a trumpet player in several Mexican bands, before leaving again and settling down in Paris. There, he went on with his musical career and delved into electronic music, in particular studying electroacoustics with Prof. Gino Favotti at a public music school in Paris. He also did several training sessions to master sound treatment software (Ableton Live, Expert, Max for Live, among others). Ismael started to compose soundtracks for several theater, dance and circus companies, and was hired as a trumpet player for the Cirque de Paris («Une journée au cirque», A Day at the Circus) for two years. He simultaneously worked with several jazz and pop bands, and as a musician in recording studios.

Always curious to learn new things, he has studied drumming classes with Philippe Gleizes, and guitar  with Yves Brouqui. Since 2010, he has been dedicating his time to his band with Sybille Jounot, Le 7eme Gnome. He spends hours experimenting on his acoustic and electroacoustic instruments to create his own musical configuration, alternating between trumpet, guitar, drumming, loop stations, samplers, drum machines, and guitar effects pedals. Ismael is in constant musical exploration, always looking for new sound textures, arrangements and atmospheres.