Music !

here's the much anticipated well overdue live music post !
Starting from the most recent, tonight I'm going to hear vanupié in belleville, don't know them at all but they seem like fun, good old fashioned crazy french music.
Last night was at the musica nuda concert. An italian duo, Ferruccio Spinetti e Petra Magoni, he on base, she on voice, many covers (nicely rearranged for the most part), some originals, some cabaret. It's a performing-singing jazz style that I have seen more and more recently. And speaking of, the opening band, Sashird Lao, a trio from Nice, a lot of fun, a mixture of jazz, rhythmic a capella, sampling, percussion, one of the two guys plays base with his voice, the other is a king of scat and the lady sings and writes egyptian songs. Check out their web site. Both groups I think are a lot more fun live than on a recording just because it is very impressive what they manage to do with very few instruments and incredible voices.

the show was at the Cabaret Sauvage, up at la Villette, perfect venue for this kind of performance, since it looks like a circus, with mirror and red velvet decorations (and they even grilled sausages outside!).

Other recent concerts have included Rilo Kiley, Wilco (excellent ! of course, and at the Bataclan, smallish venue), Bonnie Prince Billy (another one much more fun live than on record, but you gotta like that style).

On sunday it will be the New Pornographers, missed Neko Case last time she was in Paris bc I went to see one of the last Sleater Kineey concerts.... so I'm looking forward to this one, and then in october Ani di Franco, curious to see what she's been up to lately, kinda lost track in the past couple of years. The last time she had come to Paris it was for an acoustic show that was quickly sold out.

short but sweet, more soon....