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Playing the Montreux Jazz Festival was a great experience.
The first time was with Kid Loco, and the second time with
the Gotan Project, during a special night hosted by Gilles
Peterson, including Koop and Herbert premiering with its big
band.
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A text about tango, the Gotan Project and how i got involved
with them. Intended for the Double Magazine.(in french only,
sorry)
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DEdiCate: one of few mag to achieve balance between trendy
fashion, cool graphics and real texts... or trendy graphics,
cool texts and real fashion...or...
Anyway. I'm contributing shorts stories. Here's their graphics
site.
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Gôrkem Ünal is a young Turkish photographer. She
was on the advertizing business in New York, got fed up, moved
to Paris shooting B&W and eventually getting bigger and
bigger as a fashion photographer in Istambul... In the process,
we end up doing a book together (Paris(01) published by La
Dernière Pluie).
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Scott LaFaro was some sort of obsession for me at some point.
I kept looking up for informations, slowly picking up evidences
about his short life and career (he died at 26 after setting
up the grounds for modern double-bass in jazz). During six
years, I searched, interviewing his fellow partners (Stan
Getz, Paul Bley, Paul Motian...) I learned a lot about music
and took a in-depth sight of the jazz scene in NYC and LA
from 55 to 61. Eventually, I ended up writing a biographical
essay, published by les Cahiers du Jazz .
Someone took over and used it for her musicology thesis.
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bumbumTv in Centre National D'Art Contemporain, Beaubourg,
AKA Centre Pompidou, Paris.
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bumbumTv was there twice actually. Once during a WebTV conference,
then it was projected on a huge globe on the main hall during
les Rendez-Vous Electroniques.It was also seen and exposed
in La Villette, Grande Halle, during the Mixmove.
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In the beginning, bumbumTv was mainly a keaton-like joke,
something to go along with tracks with silly names such as:
lélélé or bimbamboom. It became the epitome
of lounge, sort of. The tracks did great too, thanks.
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trivia:
Brifo is a location in
the Upper West Region of Ghana, renowned for its natural springs.
Brifo was another slang
term for hemp amongst musicians in the thirties.
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Welsh to English Lexicon:
brifo [brif-] - (v.) hurt ; Not to be used in S. Wales, though.
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