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Interview with Marco Benevento
15 November 2012, 19:17
Marco Benevento is a talented keyboardist from the New York jazz avant-groove scene. He's at ease on almost every existing genre (classy melodies, heavy psychedelic and electric sets in the manner of Miles Davis' electric period, pop, groove, funk, etc.) or keyboards' type. This brilliant improvisator is involved in a great variety of exciting projects and he co-founded the excellent Royal Potato...
Entretien avec Marco Benevento
15 November 2012, 19:16
Marco Benevento est un jeune claviériste bien connu de la scène jazz et indé new-yorkaise. Un pied dans le groove et un pied dans l'expérimentation, il appartient à une tradition sophistiquée de musiciens qui explose tous les codes et les genres, passant, d'un projet à l'autre, d'élégantes mélodies pop et presque classiques, au gros son psychédélique des années électriques et psychédéliques de...
Interview with Vieux Farka Touré
10 November 2012, 18:20
One year after his last release, the electric The Secret (Six Degrees Records), Vieux Farka Touré makes a comeback with Israeli pianist extraordinaire Idan Raichel. The Touré-Raichel Collective has just released an outstanding 100% improvised record simply called 'The Tel Aviv sessions' (Cumbancha). It's a beauty beyond words, the kind of magic that makes music so special. The story is now quite...
Entretien avec Vieux Farka Touré
10 November 2012, 18:18
Un an après son dernier album, 'The Secret' (Six Degrees), le guitariste malien Vieux Farka Touré est de retour en duo avec le pianiste israélien Idan Raichel (et quelques invités) pour un disque époustouflant et entièrement conçu en une seule session improvisée à Tel Aviv (The Touré-Raichel Collective, 'The Tel Aviv Sessions', Cumbancha). C'est dans un aéroport espagnol, où les deux musiciens...
A short interview & blind-test with Afro Latin Vintage Orchestra
17 July 2012, 12:20
The latest Afro Latin Vintage Orchestra album Last Odyssey is "Sounding like deep and groovy black jazz with a timeless universality", "heavily recommended to all jazz fans who'll peel it off year after year"… Well that was the conclusion of my review but I also had the chance to meet with Masta Conga, percussionist and conductor of the project, ask him a few short questions...
The influence of Soundway Records on the Afro revival & diggin' scene
23 June 2012, 16:24
At the end of the summer of 1997, the most essential African musician, Fela Kuti, died, he was 58 and left a big hole in African music. In 1998, jazz DJ Russ Dewbury released on Harmless Records the first Africafunk compilation, as a "tribute to the towering influence of Fela Ransome Kuti", with a second volume released in 2000 selected by John Stapleton. 1998 was also the year Desco...
Interview with Olivier Conan (Chicha Libre, english version)
01 June 2012, 18:27
Olivier Conan - (Chicha Libre, english version) (Interview by Nicolas Ragonneau, for Paris DJs - May 2012) Olivier Conan is Chicha Libre frontman, cuatro player and singer, a NYC band delivering a unique peruvian psychedelic cumbia-surf music-chanson française-pop & classical cocktail. Chicha Libre's first album (Sonido Amazonico, Barbès Records / Crammed Records) was a true 2008 revelation....
Entretien avec Olivier Conan (Chicha Libre, version française)
01 June 2012, 18:25
Olivier Conan - (Chicha Libre, version française) (Entretien de Nicolas Ragonneau, pour Paris DJs - Mai 2012) Olivier Conan est le leader de Chicha Libre, un groupe de New York qui mêle, aux motifs tropicaux de la cumbia psychédélique péruvienne (la chicha), la surf pop, le rock et bien d'autres ingrédients. Le groupe a publié un premier disque fameux en 2008 (Sonido Amazonico, Crammed Records /...
Clutchy Hopkins - The Interview That Never Happened
17 May 2012, 16:03
Clutchy Hopkins - The Interview That Never Happened Questions by Djouls & Nicolas Ragonneau for Paris DJs, early 2012 Who is Clutchy Hopkins? The question still remains unanswered. We met with Shawn Lee in Paris this month, and asked him about his tweet saying he was representing Clutchy Hopkins for booking purposes… The man smiled and replied that he had no idea what we were talking about....
Interview with Wade Schuman (Hazmat Modine, english version)
10 May 2012, 12:56
Wade Schuman (Hazmat Modine) (Interview by Nicolas Ragonneau, for Paris DJs - May 2012) Wade Schuman is Hazmat Modine's frontman and founder, an incredible 8-piece and two-harmonicas blues band from NYC that sounds truly like no other. These adventurous musicians use unusual instruments and pour countless musical traditions, sounds and influences in their musical recipe (African, Caribbean,...
