Journalist at RFI (ex-DW, BBC, CBC, F24...), writer (on art, music, culture...), I work in radio, podcasting, online, on films.
As a writer, I also contributed to the New Arab, Art UK, Byline Times, the i Paper...
Born in Paris, I was based in Prague, Miami, London, Nairobi (covering East Africa), Bangui, and in Bristol, UK. I also reported from Italy, Germany, Haiti, Tunisia, Liberia, Senegal, India, Mexico, Iraq, South Africa...
This blog is to share my work, news and cultural discoveries.
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By going to Bristol 4 and a half years ago, I connected with a hotbed of creative people...
I'm insanely grateful.
Here is one track I discovered through the Young Echo crew & friends:
dBridge- 'They Loved' - ft They Live & Poison Arrow
Track: 'They Loved' · by dBridge · They Live · Poison Arrow
Album: 'A Love I Can't Explain'
℗ 2018 Exit Records
Released on: 2018-11-09
Composer, Writer: Cameron Mclaren
Composer, Writer: Darren White
Composer, Writer: Joseph Smaje
Composer, Writer: Konrad Black
Composer, Writer: Natalie Escobar To order online: http://smarturl.it/exitlp019
Facebook's role in Brexit — and the threat to democracy | by Carole Cadwalladr
In an unmissable talk, journalist Carole Cadwalladr digs into one of the most perplexing events in recent times: the UK's super-close 2016 vote to leave the European Union. Tracking the result to a barrage of misleading Facebook ads targeted at vulnerable Brexit swing voters -- and linking the same players and tactics to the 2016 US presidential election -- Cadwalladr calls out the "gods of Silicon Valley" for being on the wrong side of history and asks: Are free and fair elections a thing of the past?
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J'ai travaillé régulièrement pour Velvet Film, la société de production de films de Raoul Peck, depuis 2006.
Entre 2017 et 2018, mon principale mission a été une longues et approfondie série de recherches sur Frantz Fanon.
Film historique sur Frantz Fanon
Figure emblématique de la lutte contre l'oppression coloniale, Frantz Fanon est un écrivain engagé et un psychiatre martiniquais, né à Fort-de-France en 1925. Là-bas, il reçoit l'enseignement d'Aimé Césaire, au lycée Victor Schoelcher. Il publie à 27 ans Peau noire, masques blancs.
En Algérie, il a exercé les fonctions de médecin-chef de l'hôpital de Joinville Blida, qui porte aujourd'hui son nom, où il a passé trois ans à soigner des malades mentaux pendant la Guerre d'Algérie. Proche du Front de Libération Nationale (FLN) dont il deviendra membre en 1957, Fanon a écrit en 1960"Les damnés de la terre", manifeste de la révolte anticoloniale. Signe de son engagement, il décide de prendre la nationalité algérienne.
Atteint d'une leucémie, il est mort en décembre 1961 dans un hôpital de Washington.
Le cinéaste haïtien Raoul Pecka notamment réalisé le documentaire I'm Not Your Negro, à partir d'un texte inédit de l'écrivain afro-américain James Baldwin (1924-1987).
Dans ce documentaire, Raoul Peck évoque les figures de la lutte pour les droits civiques et fait le lien entre l’expérience du mouvement pour les droits civiques d’il y a un demi-siècle et les luttes contemporaines contre l’injustice policière de Black Lives Matter (« les vies des Noirs comptent »). - Pour ce long-métrage, "Les cris", film historique sur Frantz Fanon, Raoul Peck recherche pour le rôle principal un jeune homme noir antillais entre 26 et 36 ans (débutant accepté). Le tournage est prévu pour 2020.
C’est une tendance forte ces derniers mois en Allemagne : le parti écologiste die Grünen, les Verts, gagne en popularité. Une tendance qui se voit aussi dans les urnes. Vu d’Allemagne profite de la pause politique estivale pour étudier le phénomène. Un succès qui touche aussi le Royaume-Uni, où vous emmène votre magazine en deuxième partie.
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Vague verte aussi sur l’Angleterre
Manifestation et blocage des rues du groupe Extinction Rebellion à Bristol le 15 juillet
Les Verts en Allemagne ... Et les Verts au Royaume-Uni. On parle régulièrement du Brexit sur place, mais là-bas aussi les écolos gagnent du terrain, et ont de l'espoir. Car si Boris Johnson est devenu Premier ministre le 25 juillet 2019 dernier, on continue de parler d'élections anticipées... Une aubaine pour les écolos. Leurs idées prennent racines.
Le reportage de Melissa Chemam, de Londres à Bristol, est à suivre en deuxième partie de Vu d'Allemagne.
Big book news: Tricky has just announced his autobiography will be out in October 2019.
More here:
Blink acquires the “fascinating and moving” autobiography of Tricky
Blink acquires the “fascinating and moving” autobiography of music artist, Tricky
Senior Commissioning Editor Kerri Sharp acquired world rights from K7 Music.
Blink, an imprint of Bonnier Books UK, has acquired the autobiography of music artist, Tricky. Commissioning Editor Kerri Sharp acquired World rights from K7 Music – the independent music company headquartered in Berlin, where Tricky now lives.
Tricky’s layered, down-tempo hip-hop took the UK by storm in the early 1990s and was part of the sound that defined the post-rave generation. His first solo album, ‘Maxinquaye’ went gold, sold 800,000 copies worldwide, was NME’s album of the year in 1995 and nominated for that year’s Mercury prize. Since then he has recorded a further twelve albums.
Before his musical career, however, there was a boy who grew up in one the UK’s most deprived areas – Bristol’s Knowle West – alongside family members that included gangsters and bare-knuckle boxers. His story will be a fascinating and moving slice of social and multi-cultural history packed with hair-raising anecdotes from inside and outside the music business.
Tricky will also speak candidly about how his mother’s suicide has had a lifelong effect on him, both creatively and psychologically, and how an artist from the West Country went on to find lasting international acclaim.
“Tricky’s sound and lyrics stopped everyone dead in their tracks in the early ’90s with their originality … I’m delighted to be working with such an original artist on such a unique life story.”
Kerri Sharp, Commissioning Editor, Blink
Sharp said: ‘Tricky’s sound and lyrics stopped everyone dead in their tracks in the early ’90s with their originality. Who could ever forget, “Say reduce me, seduce me, dress me up in Stussy”? I’m delighted to be working with such an original artist on such a unique life story.’
The book will be written with music writer Andrew Perry. The idea grew out of an interview for Q Magazine around Tricky’s last album ‘Ununiform’ in 2017. Rachael Patterson, Tricky’s manager at K7 Music said: ’Andrew’s prior work with Kerri, as well the genuine enthusiasm shown by Blink’s wonderful marketing team, meant they were the number one choice.’
Blink will publish the as yet untitled book as a £20 Hardback in October 2019.
Robert Del Naja, the head and voice of Massive Attack, was invited to give a talk at SONAR D, with his tech chief, Andrew Melchior.
It took place in Barcelona on Wed. 17 July 2019.
Here is an extract:
I head a bit more from the talk on different platforms.
Robert mentioned in this video that he wouldn't go into the details of the scene in Bristol when he started making music in the early 1980s, especially the influence of post-punk...
News from Bristol Extinction Rebellion launched their the event for summer protests to call authorities to protect the climate in 5 British cities. Here is a video from Bristol, on Bristol Bridge: Project Mushroom - 15 July 2019, Day One Short video by myself with:
Starting 15 July, Extinction Rebellion is blocking roads in Bristol, Cardiff, Glasgow, Leeds and London for the next phase of their rebellion: Summer Uprising.
In the spring, they occupied five sites in London during the International Rebellion, after which the British Parliament declared "A climate emergency".
Yet "national and local governments are acting with neither the seriousness or urgency required by the need for climate justice," the movement said. "Instead, they are making weak commitments, encouraging ecologically damaging projects and taxing sustainable alternatives."
Hence this second phase of their action.
They ask the British government to "ACT NOW to halt biodiversity loss and reduce greenhouse gas emissions to net zero by 2025."
Each site disrupted in central locations in five cities across the UK will take independent action, for different amounts of time, with the same demand of government and councils: "ACT NOW!"
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Bristol, in pictures:
Bristol legendary DJ Queen B on the deck for some music for the rebels:
