#music

I couldn't find the original source (even though I searched for at least 30 seconds), so I'm telling you from memory. It was a music critic who was talking about a new track: "Anyone eating alphabet soup would shit better lyrics to a better tune.

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In the "everyone knew except me" series, subsection "pretty song about birds but actually not," I give you Barbara's L'Aigle Noir, which is actually about the incest she experienced as a child. A friend mentioned it in passing, so I went to check.

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A music video I absolutely love shot by Camille Tardieu in a single take during this year's Off Courts festival: The musician is Édouard Pons (who composed the music for my film Migrul , also shot at Off Courts this year).

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I’m belatedly exploring the works of Giorgio Moroder, aka Giorgio, who seems to have influenced every electronic artist on the planet. Recently, I’ve been listening to this 1972 track on repeat:

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If you had asked me the day before yesterday, I would have told you I'm not really into concerts.The music is too loud. It's too long.

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Another Surprise Culture Night!I've mentioned before that I sometimes go listen to poetry in a cellar. Well, completely by chance, I stumbled upon the host of those evenings in another cellar, in the midst of a performance.

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Originally, it's a soundtrack of a video installation by Pipilotti Rist, a cover of Wicked Game. Despite (or thanks to) its strangeness, I find myself listening to it regularly:

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I quite liked the original, and once again, no one bothered to notify me of this new version that you all know and that I only discovered this afternoon on the beach:

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I unexpectedly went to the theater last night and saw "Contre-Temps" by Samuel Sené. Fantastic!

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During this holiday season, a song that celebrates love. (Not the possessive and sentimental love of American romantic comedies, but the pure and immediate love of Eastern wisdom.)

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Before, I used to joke that only my mom read this blog.Recently, I got proof that not even she does.So when I promote an artist here, it's not like it's going to make a big difference or attract a crowd. But hey, it's a kind of journal.

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Of course, you've been listening to this on repeat for years, while I, foolishly, have just been listening to the original .

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Swamped before the September screening of Version 1 of the film for the Ponts et Chaussées. But between editing sequences, I stumbled upon this track – yes, I know you're already familiar with it, you always know everything.

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Of course, you know him. Because you're cool like that, and nobody tells me anything.

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Did you notice how the music from Kubrick's 2001 A Space Odyssey makes everything seem strange? No? Well, I have:

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I'm rediscovering Leonard Cohen: The Partisan, yes, but also "Who by Fire" which speaks to me quite a bit in these times of Zen exploration.

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My song of the moment. I like it because it has no real chorus, the lyrics are nostalgic and it ends in a climax. It's not recent - 2007 - but I discovered it recently when it came after This is the life which I have always loved.

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Of course, you've known about this song for ages. Because you guys are cool. But did you know that Dan Klein, the lead singer of The Frightnrs, died of Charcot's disease?

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