With the Pocket Sessions, The Company 4000 unveils some of its most beautiful gems from new jewellery boxes! From Lyon, and with the support of local relays, musical projects are invited into libraries of the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region. Artists conceive some new intimate spaces, and they are clearly not afraid of human contact…

This is such a great idea, yet it can fit in a pocket. It is all about motivating dynamics in a territory with an informal network of libraries willing to host concerts that can be adapted to these places for both intimacy and universal. Small bands will perform for adventurous audiences, in order to live great emotions in the middle of the shelves… This is a step aside for everyone, and that is full of common sense and good taste! During this shared time, bands are getting out from the comfort of the stage while libraries indulge in the magic of the instant. The audience is at the forefront of this story that is written in real time, while all the senses are involved.

The Company 4000 offers a new dance to each partner, and they all have to adapt to this new space for music broadcast. If the libraries are rare or even alone to transmit culture in a rural territory, thus they provide another dimension to their regular customers who have develop there a taste for the unexpected… Acoustic pieces flirting with liberated jazz or pop dilated with classical music, crunchy reinterpretations of Ethiopian or Colombian traditions, renewed translations of electro or hip-hop… The possible hybridizations are endless, just like literary creation. 

As places of pleasure that are anchored in everyday life, libraries are spaces that favour encounters. There, a pocket session will always be a privileged listening time, enhanced by the possibility of an after show meeting between artists and audiences… These new stories will be accessible to as many people as possible, whether you know how to read or not!