Sand, Sea, Moon and remixes at worldwide festival

A friend just posted a short video about the worldwidefestival in Sète (southern France).

The video shows people dancing on the beach with a shy sun coming up from the sea...amazing location with a perfect soundtrack.

Using Shazam it was easy to find out what the song was...

I hope you have the sea close to you and a bunch of friends to dance this song with. 

Total Summer

New AIR to stream

I moderately like AIR. But I am afraid I am gonna like this album very much...at the moment, it is just a feeling...but I love the title already "Le voyage dans la lune"

and Seven Stars is good from the first listening.

It looks like a concept album, all songs have an astronautic echo...let's see.

Les transmusicales

Some souvenirs from the festival very soon

Depth Affect

News from Nantes.

A nice one-man-band-concert on saturday night. Check him: Magic Arm.

Some hard stuff directly from Nantes. They are the Depth Affect, coming out with a new EP.

Surprisingly j'aime bien besides the rap voice



E.

Qu'est-ce qu'il se passe?

I've been a bit lazy lately.
I've been to some concerts, and I've been working a lot.
PVT were pretty good, and the Scopitone festival too. Japanese Pop Star kicked ass.

Tomorrow i have my first interview on air, with the guy of the Ninja Tunes label. Frrr....

I've spent all the day writing and thinking about my thesis, and of course about Denmark.
I am in a fantastic and lively French city. it's surprisingly sunny and i think of the grey Olborg. Ja, there's something wrong with me.

Ah, last week I attended some seminars of the EAIE conference in Nantes, and I found out I would like to work at an European level. It was so interesting and international.

There's a journalists' conference in Strasburg and I think i'm going to try to participate, who knows...I might be lucky.

For the rest I am a bit stressed because of the job. I love it, but I still have to find my daily routine. I need to organize myself with no rush.

Listening to Mozart tonight.

Nostalgique océan?

Putain!!!
I just erased all my post.

I was saying...that this is the beginning of my forth week in Nantes. The second of my intense internship. We work a lot as there are so many things to learn quickly. It is pretty excited though.

As we work as much there is just little time for music and amusement in the weekend.
The Randez-vous sur l'Erdre is a 3-days festival that took place these days in the centre of the city. It was supposed to be a jazz festival, but actually what i've been listening didn't really fit my definition of jazz. Anyway, a good discovery besides the lively and cheerful atmosphere of the festival: La scène Michelet. It is a bar+ live music hall. We stayed just half an hour to attend a quite short and laid-back after party.

Today instead, we explored the coast. It was incredibly windy and freezing. Skagen-like wind, I would say.
But the sun was finally shining, and the memories of me sitting on a bench facing the ocean while listening to Caribou and reading Kundera in French made my day.

For the up-coming week, two songs as I can't really choose.
Number one.
Gold Panda, Don't you need some boost to start the week?



Number two.
Brand new discovery Weekend: End times
I love this joy division return.
(Same label as The Pains of Being Pure at Heart...How about that?)

Have a nice week.

E.

La Route du Rock

Et ouais, je suis partie à la Route du Rock finalement.



Three days of good music, and less good weather
The first day was a bit cold but fine, we could fully enjoy the concerts: from the early and for me unknown Yann Tiersen to an awesome Caribou performing at 2.50 at night.





The second day started with a holy damned storm. Rain and rain and rain for about 10 hours. I was in a really punk-squat-festival mood and my equipment was really poor. So i spent the day walking around Saint Malo and waiting for the shuttle bus to the concert area under the rain, completely wet with 13 degrees...gneee...no, it was not fun at all.
A cause of this shitty bus service we also missed much of the Foals concert. I was a bit skeptic, I don't know the new album that much, and a part Spanish Sahara I wasn't impressed. But the performance was pretty good and it makes listen better the album.
You could imagine the condition of the site after all that water falling down the sky, I was so pissed off and tired that I was on the point to go to the camping to take out the wet clothes, but I wanted to see Two Doors Cinema Club so bad that i finally decided to stay. I don't regret my choice because the performance cheered me up completely after that shitty day.



I missed We Have Band at 2.30 but, well, let's say...i know what I missed.


Finally the last day.
In the morning rain again, so we went to Saint Malo, to have a good lunch, and seesighting a bit.
This time we went by car so we didn't have to deal with the **** shuttle bus.
Nice afternoon with some brandnew French friends.
Night with The National, maybe not the most suitable group for a festival, but good execution and interpretation. Love the melancholic tone of the often criticized voice of the singer. A fantasmagoric, rather softporn, show from the Flaming Lips (more show than concert maybe)



to end with an easy dancing The Rapture. I really appreciated their last number, that I found out it is called Olio and i propose here below, even if live it was much more effective.




E.