10/03/2009

Aventure Club Party @ Cafe Pompier report

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











08/03/2009

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.

17/01/2009

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.












21/11/2008

Friends With You

The good thing with Friends With You appearance at the Pictoplasma NYC event was to discover a show with meanings bringing their work further than an impressing kawaï good-looking shape work.
Here you will see the most entertainable catchy parts, but other parts included messages dedicated to the promotion of true love between people, mexican-like esoteric figures, and even from time to time a healthy sexually explicit reminder.
We want to make hundreds of babies with you.



Hawnay troof live


A true stage masta is the kind of guy who can enter any pitifully crowded small-town venue to instantly stick anyone's mind at the first second of the first track as if he was playing in front of a 10000 people stadium.

07/08/2008

Jon the Dog live at Enban

It was a pleasure to see Jon the Dog playing at Enban, as if it was a second home.
I remember first article regarding her hometape recordings in French magazine Jade 12 years ago (1996) introducing her as ""The Queen of lo-fi in Japan" (dixit Dogbowl)" under this picture:



Meanwhile, Jon recorded many various albums for Oz-disc, Enban/Horen or Tzadik, digging her personnal universe made of pump organ compositions, and the bizarre way children invent and whisper melodies for themselves when playing in a lonely room.
A tribute album was also released including songs covered by Harpy, Chiku (Tama), Kuricorder quartet, Watts Tower,...

Last but not least, sometimes running a bar at the pleasant Golden Gai area in Tokyo, she also sounds brilliant as a famous and mysterious Tarot reader...

Another great 2008 video outdoor with children headbanging:

02/08/2008

Nylon 100% 30th Birthday - Tokyo

Without a big surprise, Youtube quickly removed the Jun Togawa live video because someone complained about copyright violation... Sorry it is now missing here.

Fuck low battery, fuck cheap camera, I was anyway missing the pinnacle: Jun Togawa's high lands of sweetness and screams on the two-sided Mushi no onna mind-blowing live version: almighty queen raising the live from the fragile first track attempts to the fury tears and shocking lashes of the last one. Not even music anymore: life is on stage, borderline, bright and pure, both weak and strong, and sincere as so few can be: almighty queen.

Nylon 100%'s was a legendary early-eighties club when it was headquarter of a whole side of japanese creative scene and it seems these two nights raised many questions about the meaning of such a celebration, for audience as for contributors themselves.
Indeed, everybody seemed to wonder how it could be possible to keep on and give a proper live testimony considering how these guys used to be so glamourous, fresh, innovative and creative 30 years from now ?
As much replies as musicians, courses and histories, of course some of them better than others.
As years go by, it seems that many of the attitude and visual relevance was lost in way, to focus more on the musical content itself, with both positive and negative consequencies.

Hikashu probably gave one of the best astonishing set, full of humour, ideas, nonsense, from experimental sides to legendary hits. For someone who heard Makigami Koichi radical yet cartoonesques acapella solo recordings, I have to say live appearance reveal their whole meaning and power.


A pleasure also to hear the fancy-full parade of Space Ponch friends again live after their french tour two years ago (you can check detailed article just below).



Saeki Kenzo & Boogie the mach motor's:



Plastics-ex:



Kera (Nagomu label founder):