FIAC 2016 in pictures

Petite sélection personnelle...

Paris, Grand Palais

 En face, le Petit Palais

Quelques oeuvres :

Fernand Léger :

Marc Chagall:

Robert Longo:

Barthélémy Toguo:

 David Hockney :

The Pop Group's new video: 'Zipperface'

The Pop Group - 'Zipperface' (Official Video)

The Pop Group have collaborated with one of Bristol’s most forward thinking and distinctive visual artists, Max Kelan Pearce, for the video of their first single 'Zipperface', taken from their forthcoming new album Honeymoon On Mars.

Max Kelan Pearce is a leading video artist within the contemporary Bristol underground. As well as producing backdrops for New York dubstep institution Reconstrvct, Kelan has collaborated with a wide variety of artists in recent years (Hodge, Karen Gwyer, Creta Kano, Seekers International) and is best known for his affiliation with Bristol’s Young Echo collective, working on projects for the likes of Asda, Giant Swan, Jabu and O$VMV$M.


“An alien encounter scratch video creates a temporary autonomous zone, an illegal Bristol broadcast from St. Paul’s pirate tv channel. Max is a cinematic heretic.”
Mark Stewart 


"Working for The Pop Group has been an honour, their early work help set the foundations in Bristol for what would become an incredibly experimental and musically diverse city.” Max Kelan Pearce

-

'Zipperface' is taken from the 10-track album, Honeymoon On Mars, produced by dub titan Dennis Bovell, who worked on their seminal Y album, and Hank Shocklee (Public Enemy, The Bomb Squad)

Honeymoon On Mars is set for release through Freaks R Us on Friday 28th October 2016.

'Zipperface' is available as an instant download with pre-orders of the album via iTunes:
https://thepopgroup.lnk.to/HoneymoonO...



-

THE POP GROUP LIVE DATES

Monday 14 November 2016 – UK Ramsgate Ramsgate Music Hall 
Tuesday 15 November  - UK Brighton Komedia
Thursday 17 November  - UK Cardiff The Globe
Friday 18 November  - UK Leeds Wardrobe
Saturday 19 November  - UK Manchester Deaf Institute
Sunday 20 November  - UK Newcastle Think Tank
Tuesday 22 November  - UK Cambridge Portland Arms
Thursday 24 November  - UK London The 100 Club

Saturday 26 November 2016 - France Boulogne-Billancourt BBmix 


Sunday 27 November 2016 - Netherlands Amsterdam Paradiso Nord


Tuesday 29 November 2016 - Denmark Copenhagen Jazzhouse


Thursday 1 December 2016 – Germany Berlin Volksbuhne

-

Website:
http://www.thepopgroup.net/

Tricky and friends are back

 You can listen to Tricky's surprise new collaboration with a half of Massive Attack on his new Extended Play: 'The Obia E.P.':

Euanwhosarmy Feat. Lyndsey Lupe – For Nothing (Produced by Robert Del Naja & Euan Dickinson)

Published on 14 Oct 2016

False Idols Presents: The Obia EP
Out now on False Idols
Oder: https://K7.lnk.to/TheObiaEPYo

Euanwhosarmy is a new project produced by Robert Del Naja (aka 3D of Massive Attack) and Euan Dickinson. 

The track appears on the ‘OBIA EP,’ a seven track collection showcasing works by established and emerging artists specially chosen by Tricky. WOODJU and Syava are both Russian artists with whom Tricky struck up a close relationship while on tour. Los Angeles- and Berlin born Kiko King & creativemaze contribute two tracks, and UK rap sensation CASISDEAD voices a new version of Tricky’s “Does It.”

For More Info:
http://www.trickysite.com

A night in (old and new) Paris

 There a moments like tonight where I really feel my future is not in France anymore. I left this country many time, for a year or so, always came back but sometimes everything appears so blocked, so impossible to change... It makes me want to start everything all over again somewhere else. In the UK, or on a tiny Italian island !

Politics in France is rotten, corrupted and useless. Then the media is becoming so mediocre and nepotism is killing everything. It is very hard to get anything published if not through a connection. How did it become so old-fashioned? So stubborn and closed-up?

Luckily, there are still little pockets of hope. 

Paris is still the home of a couple of great filmmakers, a few committed writers, and above all powerful gallery owners who are doing a lot for the art scene.

Tomorrow and Thursday, I'll be at the Contemporary Art Fair. Tonight I went at the new street art "museum", Art 42, Bd Bessieres, where Banksy is meeting Obey and Blu. 

Here are some pictures instead of my complaints:

Madame (Moustache)

Speedy Graphito:

Banksy

Futura 2000:

-

Still, a few streets carry the dream. A few people are extraordinary, inspirational, love-giving and revolutionary.

Change is a constant part of who we are as human beings and those forces that only fight to keep things alike, to prevent change from happening, are ruining every effort, every joy.

But it's not a reason to give up the dreams, the joy, the spirit of revolution...

An Italian musician told me exactly a year ago that something in me seemed to carry this spirit of revolution. That's one of the most beautiful compliments I've ever heard. Thanks Matteo! 

-

I have started watching Adam Curtis' latest documentary, 'HyperNormalisation', and he is explaining no less than the blocks in our societies and cultures due to the fear of change, the rejection of the flow of natural evolution, socially and humanly.

So let's keep the faith, let's trust the right ones, and let's change all that no longer serves us... 

Le "Rêve africain" de Patrick Buluku et son groupe, l'Homme noir

Patrick Buluku née le 29 mai 1991 à Kinshasa, en République Démocratique du Congo.

Guitariste/Chanteur/Compositeur, Patrick Buluku s'est fait remarquer à Astra Sound en tant que guitariste et chef d’orchestre. 

Après son expérience avec la star de la rumba Congolaise KOFFI OLOMIDE en 2010-2011, Patrick Buluku en 2012 s’est lance dans le Groupe BA Nkosi music aussi reconnu en tant qu’arrangeur/Guitariste/Chanteur/Compositeur au Rythmes de l’afro-beat « MALINGA ». 


Un extrait : 

Une répétition :

-

Le Congo est une immense patrie de la musique africaine. Des groupes comme Jupiter & Okwess et Mwangana Star sont les derniers à faire désormais parler d'eux dans toute l'Europe.

Le dernier titre de Jupiter & Okwess :

'Musonsu' - Jupiter & Okwess (Official Music Video)

La musique congolaise a également inspiré de nombreuses collaborations au chanteur et musicien britannique Damon Albarn.
Un exemple :

DRC Music - Hallo (featuring Tout Puissant Mukalo and Nelly Liyemge)

[album by DRC Music - 'Kinshasa One Two']

 Jupiter a aussi inspiré une collaboration au leader de Massive Attack, 3D :

BATTLE BOX 002 - 3D ON JUPITER

-

Patrick quant à lui travaille sur son premier album et a déjà composé huit titres. Il compose en ce moment à une nouvelle chanson...

Ecoutez le aussi sur Soundcloud :
"Le Rêve africain"
https://soundcloud.com/user357722988


Sa page Facebook : www.facebook.com/patrick.buluku.56/about

-

Patrick Buluku cherche un manager à Paris. N'hésitez pas à le contacter via Facebook ou par moi. Merci pour lui ! 

Sur Salman Rushdie

Petit article pour le mensuel Transfuge sur la visite de Salman Rushdie à Paris, en septembre, pour la sortie de son roman magique Deux ans, huit mois et vingt-huit nuits :

Salman Rushdie en signature la librairie L'Arbre à lettres, Paris 12e :

Salman Rushdie et Wajdi Mouawad au Théâtre de la Colline : 

La librairie Nordest fête ses 20 ans

 Paris 10e arrondissement, l'un de mes préférés. Cette passionnante librairie y anime une série d'événement pour fêter ses 20 ans :

'En dehors de la zone de confort' sur RFI

Invité Culture ce vendredi sur RFI :

Bristol, la ville portuaire anglaise est devenue un mythe depuis les années 1990. C'est là que sont nés plusieurs courants artistiques majeurs. Le trip hop, côté musical. Et le Street art, côté arts plastiques. De Massive Attack à Banksy, la ville a donné au monde des artistes célèbres. 

La journaliste Mélissa Chemam a consacré un ouvrage à cette ville et à ces artistes. 'En dehors de la zone de confort', paru aux éditions Anne Carrière.


Ecouter :

http://www.rfi.fr/emission/20161014-melissa-chemam-auteure-livre-dehors-zone-confort

--


Olivier Rogez a également présenté le livre sans l'émission 'Vous m'en direz des nouvelles' toujours sur Radio France Internationale :

Au menu de ce Café Gourmand Marie Gicquel a rencontré à la Galerie Huberty & Breyne dans le cadre de son exposition le dessinateur de Bande Dessinée Yslaire. L'occasion pour lui de présenter sa Bande Dessinée Fleur de pavé parue chez Glénat, nouvel épisode de la célèbre saga Sambre. Carmen Lunsmann présente l'exposition Le chamane et la pensée de la forêt au Musée d'Ethnographie de Genève. 

Olivier Rogez présente le livre En dehors de la zone de confort, de Massive Attack à Banksy de Melissa Chemam paru chez Anne Carrière. 

José Marinho nous fait découvrir l'album V.I.C.T.O.R. du groupe Golden Bug du label La Belle Records.

Ecoutez ici : http://www.rfi.fr/emission/20161014-boris-charmatz

'Not Dark Yet''

Indeed.

Literature and music. Music and poetry... It's been quite a theme these past two years, for me, and I'm sure for many people!

So, a poet musician, a poetical singer, a musical lyricist stole the Nobel Prize for Literature.
Congratulations! Musicians are my inspiration and they are many writers' one too.

Long live Bob Dylan, his music and his writing.

My favorite Dylan song to celebrate :

'Not Dark Yet' - Bob Dylan

Shadows are fallin' and I've been here all day
It's too hot to sleep and time is runnin' away
Feel like my soul has turned into steel
I've still got the scars that the sun didn't heal
There's not even room enough to be anywhere
It's not dark yet but it's gettin' there.

Well, my sense of humanity has gone down the drain
Behind every beautiful thing there's been some kind of pain
She wrote me a letter and she wrote it so kind
She put down in writin' what was in her mind
I just don't see why I should even care
It's not dark yet but it's gettin' there.

Well, I've been to London and I been to gay Paris
I've followed the river and I got to the sea
I've been down on the bottom of the world full of lies
I ain't lookin' for nothin' in anyone's eyes
Sometimes my burden is more than I can bear
It's not dark yet but it's gettin' there.

I was born here and I'll die here against my will
I know it looks like I'm movin' but I'm standin' still
Every nerve in my body is so naked and numb
I can't even remember what it was I came here to get away from
Don't even hear the murmur of a prayer

It's not dark yet but it's gettin' there.

"Lover, You Should've Come Over"

I've been singing that song for as long as it exists...

Jeff Buckley - "Lover, You Should've Come Over"

--

"Lover, You Should've Come Over"

Looking out the door i see the rain fall upon the funeral mourners

Parading in a wake of sad relations as their shoes fill up with water 

And maybe i'm too young to keep good love from going wrong 

But tonight you're on my mind so you never know 

When i'm broken down and hungry for your love with no way to feed it 

Where are you tonight, child you know how much i need it 

Too young to hold on and too old to just break free and run 

Sometimes a man gets carried away, when he feels like he should be having his fun 

And much too blind to see the damage he's done 

Sometimes a man must awake to find that really, he has no-one 

So i'll wait for you... and i'll burn 

Will I ever see your sweet return 

Oh will I ever learn

Oh lover, you should've come over 

'Cause it's not too late

Lonely is the room, the bed is made, the open window lets the rain in 

Burning in the corner is the only one who dreams he had you with him 

My body turns and yearns for a sleep that will never come

It's never over, my kingdom for a kiss upon her shoulder 

It's never over, all my riches for her smiles when i slept so soft against her 

It's never over, all my blood for the sweetness of her laughter 

It's never over, she's the tear that hangs inside my soul forever

Well maybe i'm just too young 

To keep good love from going wrong

Oh... lover, you should've come over 

'Cause it's not too late 

Well I feel too young to hold on 

And i'm much too old to break free and run 

Too deaf, dumb, and blind to see the damage i've done

Sweet lover, you should've come over 

Oh, love well i'm waiting for you 

Lover, you should've come over

'Cause it's not too late