L'Expérience Japonaise

Back from L'Expérience Japonaise second festival, five days of enlightened events and friendly encounters setup by the sonore team with the Theater of Nîmes.

As you'll notice, the festival positively gets rid of any gender definition, curating together artists you could suppose to live on opposite sides.
However, the general care for communication around artists was so good that line-ups never happened chaotic at any time.
It was clear from the beginning that every artist proposal was evolving on a personnal realm, sometimes building bridges with the other ones, sometimes built in opposition.

Check the sonore website for detailed infos and pictures.

Chimidoro





Akane Hosaka





Yudaya Jazz



Maruosa



Doddodo





Tokyo Panorama Mambo Boys

Candie Hank / Ben Butler & Mousepad live

Patric Catani whole production since more than 15 years is the most recommandable musical library in itself, wether he brilliantly deals with circus slaughter, tracker rockish tunes, perrey-styled smashed melodies, or this kind of exotico-surf riddim bongo blend.

Back from tour with Max Tundra, whith whomhe seems to be sharing a specific taste for squeezed vintage harmonies across common influencies, Ben Butler and Mousepad dispensed brilliant composition work with catchy energy and sound. And a great Moustache.

Aventure Club Party @ Cafe Pompier report

Aventure club:
Dj Arc de Triomphe (Cartilage rds)
Dj Couleurs
Dj Banane 270
Gangpol & Mit live

Moishe Moishe Moishele live @ Gogodada #1 - Paris

This live is an instant advocacy for worldwide peace. These guys are simply gonna save the world with a bunch of tb 303 bubbles and sh 101 pitchbended leads.
Exactly what you need to keep the faith, with a perfect balance of humour and seriousness.

Costes live @ Café Pompier 04/03/09

Last appearance of Jean-Louis Costes in Bordeaux probably happened to be one of the greatest and the most interesting.
I personnaly used to think the theatric side of his work used to hide under a veil of hysterical attitude his heartbreaking songwriting (wether for love songs or hate songs). It was a time when words used to stay hidden under a wall of distorsion. Despite the efficience, I used to enjoy in these past shows when the music happened to stop, and he started improvising hilarious and raw minutes of acapella stand-up bonus.
I have no idea if he got fed up to be the "carrott in the ass" guy people go to see on a drunk friday evening, but this new show - no nudity, no theatric - brings attention back on the obvious fact that he's simply the best living french singer.

Characters "R" Us

Some pictures of the great exhibition Characters "R" Us curated by Pictoplasma for Les Grandes Traversées at CAPC museum of Bordeaux.
An impressive amount of drawings by various compulsive artists such as Yu Matsuoka, Stéphane Prigent (Kerozen), Dennis Typhus, Shoboshobo, & many many more, giving a fair and pleasantly united overview of different nowadays drawing practices.

Unfortunately, only 5 days of opening for an event easily deserving 2 full months...
A strangely frustrating decision from this now back-to-sleep museum.

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