"Be There"

London's underground and very, very familiar nocturnal feelings...


UNKLE - 'Be There'

Music video by UNKLE performing 'Be There'. 
(C) 1999 Mowax Recordings Ltd.

Looking For...

Back from somewhere... Going somewhere else :) Ain't we all?
I may have lost my way in the meantime...
Looking for light and peace only.

I may see you somewhere unexpected, after the summer.
Now, will retreat inside of me, if you will :)

Just music for now.

Sound and images of the week:


UNKLE - 'Looking For The Rain'  - ft. Mark Lanegan, ESKA

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Published on 19 Jun 2017

The video for 'Looking for the Rain' was created by filming a variety of subjects from nature, such as water, crystals and plants. The footage was composited in several stages to eventually form a moving tunnel of light that features synchronised repetition and bilateral symmetry.

http://vevo.ly/pIkox2

"No Light No Light"

I've been told words don't matter... That writing doesn't matter any more. Not even lyrics... Many times. And one too many time.
But I highly disagree.

You don't have to read or listen. But it'll be here.


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Florence + The Machine - 'No Light, No Light'

"No Light, No Light"

You are the hole in my head
You are the space in my bed
You are the silence in between
What I thought and what I said

You are the night time fear
You are the morning when it's clear
When it's over you're the start
You're my head, you're my heart

No light, no light in your bright blue eyes
I never knew daylight could be so violent
A revelation in the light of day
You can't choose what stays and what fades away

And I'd do anything to make you stay
No light, no light
No light
Tell me what you want me to say

Through the crowd, I was crying out
And in your place there were a thousand other faces
I was disappearing in plain sight
Heaven help me, I need to make it right

You want a revelation,
You wanna get it right
But it's a conversation,
I just can't have tonight
You want a revelation
Some kind of resolution
You want a revelation

No light, no light in your bright blue eyes
I never knew daylight could be so violent
A revelation in the light of day,
You can't choose what stays and what fades away

And I'd do anything to make you stay
No light, no light
No light
Tell me what you want me to say

Would you leave me,
If I told you what I've done?
And would you need me,
If I told you what I've become?
'Cause it's so easy,
To say it to a crowd
But it's so hard, my love,
To say it to you out loud

No light, no light in your bright blue eyes
I never knew daylight could be so violent
A revelation in the light of day,
You can't choose what stays and what fades away

And I'd do anything to make you stay
No light, no light
No light
Tell me what you want me to say

You want a revelation,
You wanna get it right
But it's a conversation,
I just can't have tonight
You want a revelation
Some kind of resolution
You want a revelation

You want a revelation,
You wanna get it right
But it's a conversation,
I just can't have tonight
You want a revelation, some kind of resolution
Tell me what you want me to say.

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Music: Massive Attack heading to Asia the end of this year

Hong Kong, and maybe other dates? Maybe Japan?

Here is the first news in this newspaper from HK:

PUBLISHED : Tuesday, 20 June, 2017, 3:04pm

British trip-hop giants Massive Attack and Canadian indie star Feist will be headlining this year’s 10th-anniversary edition of the Clockenflap festival on the Central Harbourfront in November.

The other main acts named in today’s first announcement of performers at the 2017 festival include veteran US indie band the Dandy Warhols, Danish singer-songwriter MØ, reunited Hong Kong alternative pop band Fan Hung A, influential world-music act Tinariwen, Korean R&B/hip hop star Dean, and American DJ and producer Matthew Dear.
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• Bristol trip-hop legends Massive Attack
• Canadian indie-rock chanteuse Feist
• US indie veterans The Dandy Warhols
• US DJ/producer Matthew Dear
• Canadian duo Bob Moses
• Manchester five-piece Blossoms
• Danish electropop singer MØ
• Local acoustic act Per Se
• World music mavericks Tinariwen
• Hong Kong indie legends Fan Hung A 粉紅 A
• Chinese rap group Higher Brothers 海爾兄弟
• Taiwan alt-indie act Hello Nico
• …and Hong Kong rock pop favourites Supper Moment

Massive Attack to headline Hong Kong’s Clockenflap festival 2017

The festival will also bring international stars the Dandy Warhols and MØ to Hong Kong, and feature a host of other local and overseas acts at the Central Harbourfront on its 10th anniversary

Clockenflap takes place from November 17-19, and Massive Attack are set to close the festival on the Sunday night with their only performance in Southeast Asia this year. The Clockenflap shows will be the first in Hong Kong by both Massive Attack and Feist.

InIn

PUBLISHED : Tuesday, 20 June, 2017, 3:04pm

Massive Attack formed in Bristol, in the west of England, in 1988 and became the standout act in the city’s influential trip-hop movement, which also included acts such as Portishead and Tricky. Taking influences from hip hop, reggae and soul, the outfit pioneered a hypnotic, bass-heavy sound and produced some of the ’90s best-loved dance anthems, such as Unfinished Sympathy and Karmacoma.

“We’ve been working on Massive Attack for many years now,” says Clockenflap music director Justin Sweeting. “Although we’ve had opportunities in the past to bring out different iterations of their show, including the DJ format, we’ve always preferred to wait until we could present the full-blown live show for maximum impact.”

“It’s a big, visual production with 11 people performing on stage, which will make for a truly spectacular finale to close the 2017 festival on the main stage.”

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Early bird tickets are available via Ticketflap until July 3:

• General admission 3-Day weekend tickets are $1,410
• General admission Friday tickets are $820
• General admission Saturday and Sunday tickets are $890
• Student 3-Day weekend tickets are $1,080
• Student Friday tickets are $570
• Student Saturday and Sunday tickets are $640

Clockenflap offers free entry for children aged 12 and under (maximum two per one paying adult).

..."the heart is an organ of fire.”

“She had always wanted words, she loved them; grew up on them. Words gave her clarity, brought reason, shape.” 

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“There are betrayals in war that are childlike compared with our human betrayals during peace. The new lovers enter the habits of the other. Things are smashed, revealed in a new light. This is done with nervous or tender sentences, although the heart is an organ of fire.” 


― Michael Ondaatje, The English Patient


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The English Patient | ‘So Few Adjectives’ 

Katharine & Almásy - The One Who Appears Not To Move

The English Patient / "Let me tell you about winds."

21 juin : RDV à Limoges pour la Fête de la Musique

June 21 is World Music Day!

Je suis invitée à Limoges pour parler de littérature et de musique.

Quelques infos :

RDV dans trois semaines! Merci encore à Christian Eudeline et au Salon du Livre de Musique - Limoges (et à Yaël Hirsch et Toute la culture pour l'interview!)

Salon du Livre de Musique - Limoges

May 28 at 9:09am · 

Partagez... 21 juin, fête de la musique quartier de la cité à Limoges c'est aussi un Salon du Livre de Musique ! Venez rencontrer Mélissa Chemam, auteur de "En dehors de la zone de confort" aux Editions Anne Carrière

Journaliste globe-trotteuse indépendante (Public Art Review, Transfuge, Radio France, TV5, DW, BBC ...) se pose quelque part puis repart. De ses vies à Prague, Miami, Londres, Nairobi, Bristol et de ses voyages en Italie, Haïti, aux Balkans, dans le Caucase, en Tunisie, Irak et encore bien d'autres pays, elle a trouvé une inépuisable envie de partager des nouvelles, des pensées, des découvertes culturelles du monde entier. C'est de Bristol, la ville d'origine de Massive Attack, qu'elle est partie à la rencontre de tous les artistes qui en ont fait un lieu unique.

L'histoire mêle musique, art et politique : plus précisément le mouvement post-punk et le reggae né à Bristol dans les années 70, les début du hip-hop et du Wild Bunch, puis la naissance d'un mouvement street art unique, à partir de 1983. Robert Del Naja, street artist connu sous le pseudonyme de 3D, Grant Marshall (surnommé Daddy G) et Mushroom (de son vrai nom Andrew Volwes) fondent alors Massive Attack en 1988 et révolutionnent la musique populaire avec leur premier album, Blue Lines, en 1991. Puis arrive l'ouragan Banksy qui emporte ensuite tout le Royaume-Uni à partir de 1998.

Ses rencontres ? Mark Stewart, Tricky, les membres du groupe Portishead, le chanteur et multi-intrumentiste Sean Cook, le street artiste Inkie, ou encore les membres du groupe Alpha. Et bien sûr Robert Del Naja et son ingénieur du son Euan Dickinson, dans le studio du groupe, ainsi que le producteur de Mezzanine, Neil Davidge. Elle a également suivi Massive Attack jusqu'à Dublin et Londres, en passant par Paris et interrogé leurs collaborateurs dont certains venant d'Italie, de Palestine, d'Ecosse ou même du Japon.

Rébellion, art, musique, engagement, Bristol synthétise ainsi une autre histoire du Royaume-Uni. Une histoire qui amène au sommet des charts et sur le devant de la scène de parfaits autodidactes et la part plurielle et afro-antillaise de la culture britannique.

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Interview vidéo :

TLC - Le Lundi au soleil : rencontre avec Melissa Chemam

Interview de Melissa Chemam pour la sortie de son livre "En dehors de la zone de confort" chez Anne Carrière, réalisée par Yaël Hirsch et avec les étudiants du BTS audiovisuel de l'EICAR.

Algiers - the band - in Paris

About last night...

This band have a special resonance with me because of their talent of course but also because of their name, simply, chosen as an homage to the famous film; The Battle of Algiers.

They gave a "secret gig" in Paris yesterday and - miraculously - again - I won tickets...

They were brilliant, literally so powerful on the small stage of the Silencio - stylish bar in central Paris created by David Lynch.

Their songs include many sonic references to important discourses in American history, including some by the unique James Baldwin.

Here are a few pictures, by myself, in the first raw, which cannot do justice to their energy - but it is just to share!

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Listen again to Algiers' new single:


Algiers - "Cleveland" (Official Audio)

Published on 13 Jun 2017

From Algiers' new album 'The Underside of Power' released by Matador Records on June 23rd, 2017 and available for pre-order now: http://smarturl.it/TheUndersideOfPower

"A recurring theme in our music is the idea of injustice and the bitter understanding that obtaining justice in this world is all but impossible--particularly for black and brown people.”
- frontman and lyricist Franklin James Fisher

http://www.algierstheband.com/


CLEVELAND lyrics

I never saw your face but I can tell
you’re there and waiting at the Right Hand

Satan laughs but I swear
I can hear all the saints on their way down

Here come the Shirts in Brown and Black
With the flashing lights
They’re hiding
In different colors in the dead of night
They’re running Waller County, Texas where 4,000 died

And down in Jackson, Mississippi they don’t have to hide

But innocence is alive and it’s coming back one day

Here come the(m) boys in black and white
With the kerosene
It’s been the same evil power since in ‘63
They hang in Homewood, Alabama with the whitest sheets

And in Montgomery County, Maryland from a sapling tree

But innocence is alive and it’s coming back one day

I don’t think you’re gonna get away
With the Seal I can hear them singing

Kindra Chapman (we’re coming back)

Brother Andre Jones (we’re coming back)

Lennon Lacy (we’re coming back)

Sandra Bland (we’re coming back)

Roosevelt Pernell (we’re coming back)

Keith Warren (we’re coming back)

Alfred Wright (we’re coming back)

We’re coming back and any day now — it won’t be long…

The hand that brings the gavel down

is the hand that ties the noose
The hand that finds you behind
And ties the thirteen loops

But that hand is gonna fold
The day is coming soon
When we fill it full of dust and resurrect the truth

‘Cause innocence is alive and it’s coming back one day

About Keziah Jones and Lagos

This musician is one of my heroes. He is talented, joyful, committed and he believes! He believes in change, in social change, in changing ourselves constantly to become better people, a better people, all together, as the human race...

I was lucky enough to get invited to see his performance in Marseilles, late May, when he talked about his homeland, in Nigeria, its culture and of course of Fela Kuti, the mentor and magician of Afro Beat.

Keziah Jones In Marseilles,

Pictures by myself, On May 26th

Today he wrote this very important post about his area and is happy for me to share it here.

Thank you, gifted person!!



In 1977 When #felakuti sealed off the compound of his house in lagos with an electrified barbed wire fence and declared it to be a republic separate and distinct from the federal republic of Nigeria which it was in,he must have known it to be a far sighted and prescient move

Most houses in lagos already function as #ministates of their own they provide their own water through boreholes their own electricity through generators and their own security through "maiguards"

They even have their own steady supply of cheap manual labour through the "employment" of house boys and house girls from the villages who come to lagos looking for opportunity 


We at lagos underground wish to take this idea to its logical extreme and declare each individual or group of individuals to be a separate state

Citizens living in the false african nation states created by the western powers after the second world war are the ones who will bear the costs of the drastic changes in the #climate and are also the least capable of providing collective national solutions to the problem.


without a true notion of nationhood the individual or groups of like minded individuals must declare themselves autonomous #selfsufficient republics just as in the courageous example provided by Fela 

#organicityfarming#temporaryautonomouszone #hakimbey

A piece of land in Lagos, by Keziah Jones himself

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Spread the word!!

'Missing'... A sense of nostalgia

What a separative time we are living... Our allies fall one after another. Trump's election, Brexit.

Ain't we all looking for unions?

I grew up in such optimistic times! Meritocracy, equality, mixity.
Where have all these prospects gone?

Times of separations, ok. End of empires. Backlash and boomerang.

But I miss you. All of you. I miss unity...


Everything But The Girl - 'Missing' 

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And to conclude, this quote:

“If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded.” ~ Maya Angelou

They say "It's Never Over"

A little Arcade Fire for a very strange week... All these lost battles.
For democracy, for truth, for trust.
Is it worth fighting anymore?


It seems so important now
But you will get over
It seems so important now
But you will get over
And when you get over
When you get older
Then you will remember
Why it was so important then

Seems like a big deal now
But you will get over
Seems like a big deal now
But you will get over
When you get over
And when you get older
Then you will discover
That it's never over


Of course it is. But how?
"Wait until it's over".
We'll see...

'It's Never Over (Oh Orpheus)'

Lyrics

Hey, Orpheus!
I'm behind you
Don't turn around
I can find you

Just wait until it's over
Wait until it's through
And if I call for you
Oh, Orpheus!
Just sing for me all night
We'll wait until it's over
Wait until it's through

You say it's not me, it's you

Hey, Orpheus!
De l'autre côté de l'eau
Comme un écho
Just wait until it's over
Wait until it's through

And if I shout for you
Never doubt
Don't turn around too soon
Just wait until it's over
Wait until it's through

It seems so important now
But you will get over
It seems so important now
But you will get over
And when you get over
When you get older
Then you will remember
Why it was so important then

Seems like a big deal now
But you will get over
Seems like a big deal now
But you will get over
When you get over
And when you get older
Then you will discover
That it's never over

Hey, Eurydice!
Can you see me?
I will sing your name
Till you're sick of me
Just wait until it's over
Just wait until it's through

But if you call for me
This frozen sea
It melts beneath me
Just wait until it's over
Wait until it's through

Seems like a big deal now
But you will get over
Seems like a big deal now
But you will get over
And when you get over
And when you get older
Then you will remember

He told you he'd wake you up
When it was over
He told you he'd wake you up
When it was over
Now that it's over
Now that you're older
Then you will discover
That it's never over

It's never over (it's never over) [8x]

Sometime (Sometime)
Sometime (Sometime)
Boy, they're gonna eat you alive (eat you alive)
But it's never gonna happen now
We'll figure it out somehow

Sometime (Sometime)
Sometime (Sometime)
Boy, they're gonna eat you alive (eat you alive)
But it's never gonna happen now
We'll figure it out somehow

Cause it's never over
It's never over (it's never over) [6x]

We stood beside
A frozen sea
I saw you out
In front of me
Reflected light
A hollow moon
Oh Orpheus, Eurydice
It's over too soon