Category / Creation 4000

Have you ever spotted someone, headphones on, dancing on a subway platform? Chances are, that stranger was vibing to a track by Erotic Market, aka Marine Pellegrini. Indeed, with her second single, “Sophisticreamy”, she invites us to connect through her vision of unity. Morever you can hear the joy in her voice as she shares her uplifting energy with both playfulness and wisdom: set to a backdrop of vibrant drums and carried by her rich voice, she makes a compelling case that our longing for freedom might just find…

For the past 8 months, the cellars of Le Périscope have resounded regularly with the chiseling of telluric sounds and the grinding of corrugated iron. We hesitate between the migration of the Moria mines, the construction of a skate park in the Périscope basement or a rehearsal by the Kouma trio for the creation of a new set. Bertrand Gaudillère went to check it out for us a few days ago. An analysis of his photos is underway to determine the cause of this mess. The detailed…

"On the second part of these unexpected antics, we find titles from his previous repertoire [....] here transfigured by the countermelody of the strings sumptuously arranged by Romain Dugelay. [...] Witch of flesh and blues, Marine Pellegrini oscillates between languorous drunkenness, shamanic groove and dreamlike R'n'B. Everything is sensual and spicy. In a word: exciting"…

The good thing about Covid was that there were cravings that came under the pressure of inaction. So the desire that I had for some time to work with an acoustic trio came true. I proposed to Simon Girard (trombone) and Anne Quillier (piano) to work on pieces composed from chimeras made by the graphic designer Ramataupia (with whom I worked on Kouma and Polymorphie). Here are a few of them unveiled to wait….