ROCK EN SEINE 2016 – TORRID AND FABULOUS

  (EN) Well, summer festivals season ended in France with the 14th edition of Rock en Seine, the great Parisian festival in the Park of Saint Cloud. This year once again, the five stages reunited together a very diverse and eclectic line up. A mix of big great artists and wonderful discoveries coming up from all over the world brought us in their universe rock, … Continue reading ROCK EN SEINE 2016 – TORRID AND FABULOUS

SUMMER TIME PLAYLIST 

Yeah vacation !!! Summer vacation, so much expected…nothing to do, no stress, no deadlines, just some good books and movies and looooot of great music…Relax, let the time flies and enjoy the goods vibes. Here it is just a tiny selection in my playlist  BANKS  & STEELZ – the Fab hip hop + indie rock collaborative project of  two amazing artists Paul Banks (Interpol) and … Continue reading SUMMER TIME PLAYLIST 

Manus X Machina – Fashion And Technology at MET, New York 

(EN) Fashion and technology are totally connected. The amazing exibition Manus x Machina presented at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York explains this very well. Through 170 awesome pieces of haute couture and ready to wear, the exibition is reconciling the hand made with machine made long time opposite. The technologies evolved , step by step they were integrated in the work of … Continue reading Manus X Machina – Fashion And Technology at MET, New York 

BANKS & STEELZ – Anything But Words -Preview

(EN) One month to go till the release of Anything But Words, the debut album of Banks & Steelz, the pretty unlikely rap – rock duo formed by RZA from Wu-Tang Clan and Paul Banks from Interpol. So time for a short preview of this huge collaboration, especially that the second video for Giant was put on line yesterday and it is a total gem. … Continue reading BANKS & STEELZ – Anything But Words -Preview

Minor Victories : In Conversation with Justin Lockey – Interview

(EN) The musical equation is simple:  4 talented artists Rachel Goswell (SlowDive) + Justin Lockey (Editors) + Stuart Braithwaite (Mogwai ) + James Lockey (Hand Held Cine Club) And the result is astronomical = Minor Victories. This new born remarkable sound is a combination of distortion noisy indie rock, orchestral interludes and a delicate sweet voice. Definitely, Minor Victories is not only a great phenomenal … Continue reading Minor Victories : In Conversation with Justin Lockey – Interview

Let’s Dance at Rock en Seine 2016

(EN) At the end of the summer, as usual, all good music Lovers, living in Paris area or elsewhere, will wander in the magnificent Park of Saint Cloud, for a mega portion of great concerts. This year at Rock en Seine – Let’s Dance: this is the promise of the 2016 festival – a tribute to the regretted David Bowie…? Once more, the festival absolutely … Continue reading Let’s Dance at Rock en Seine 2016

EDITORS, Citadel Festival, Berlin – 28.06.2016 Live Report

EN Couldn’t be a better place as the Spandau Zitadelle in Berlin for an epic summer evening in the company of the sombre post punk Editors sound. In the middle of the medieval Fortress, nice people and good beer, the cosmopolite festival, Citadel Music, reunites every year a melting pot of artists coming from all horizons: music, theatre, dance. British Band Editors, on tour for … Continue reading EDITORS, Citadel Festival, Berlin – 28.06.2016 Live Report

Emmy The Great and Throws at Pop-Up du Label, Paris – Live Report 16.06.2016

English (French version please scroll down)   Last Thursday, on the pretty small stage of the bar -restaurant Pop-Up du Label in Paris, two lovely musical discoveries. First arrives Emmy the Great, a British charming young lady armed with a guitar, two keyboards and a lovely big smile who is touring in support of her third album “Second Love”. Delicate voice, pure folk melodies and beautiful … Continue reading Emmy The Great and Throws at Pop-Up du Label, Paris – Live Report 16.06.2016

Monumenta 2016 – Empires by Huang Yong Ping, Grand Palais -Paris

English(French please scroll down ) Monumenta, the annual contemporary art exhibition organised at The Grand Palais, in Paris, presents Empires by Huang Yong Ping. The Chinese born artist created a spectacular installation, composed by eight mounds of colourful freight containers, a silver metal snake suspended from a crane and a bicorn hat set on an arch inspired by the one worn by Napoleon at the … Continue reading Monumenta 2016 – Empires by Huang Yong Ping, Grand Palais -Paris

L’Observatoire de la lumière, le magnifique projet In situ par Daniel Buren

French version – scroll down   The beautiful building of Foundation Louis Vuitton, huge space dedicated to contemporary art and designed by the famous American architect, Frank Gehry, gets new skin for few days. The French artist Daniel Buren, presents his grandiose artistic project, ‘The Observatory of light’, across the emblematic glass elements of the building which reminds a gigantic boat lost in an ocean of … Continue reading L’Observatoire de la lumière, le magnifique projet In situ par Daniel Buren