Archive for the Music Category
When Emotion Transcends the Language
She is very expressive, and her face itself can tell a story. In the artistic circles of poetry and performance, she is known as Queen Ka. After her presentation "Delirium Verbal / Slam en Musique" at the Alliance Française de Washington last Friday, I had the chance to speak to Queen Ka and learn [...]
SOMA : le nouveau groupe de rock français « made in » Istres !
Il faudrait être aveugle ou sourd pour ne pas les remarquer ! Depuis quelques mois, le groupe SOMA est partout : en concert aux quatre coins de la France, à la télé (sur Canal + et dans l’émission Taratata sur France 2 et France 4), dans les journaux, la presse spécialisée et dans les plu [...]
Batofar and Marley Marl
Coming from the coast of Maine, I am no stranger to the water. In fact, I consider us to be good friends and if I go too long without spending quality time with the water, I feel as though there is something missing in my life. When I learned that there were places in Paris where I could enjoy [...]
Eclectic Elektriks
General Elektriks-Raid the Radio on Youtube I don’t think of myself as a particularly ‘funky’ individual, but I can’t resist the variety demonstrated by Hervé (RV) Salters, the French ex-pat behind the synthesizer of General Elektriks. An excellent album for a daily commute, General Ele [...]
A Night of Jazz
Three French artists brought a wonderful world of music and video the night of November 6th, filling The Mansion at Strathmore with jazz tunes from the 1930s through the 1950s. Guillaume de Chassy, on the piano; Daniel Yvinec, on the bass; and Antoine Carlier at the video projection took the audi [...]
Traveling with Music
With the ancient sound of her harp, she carried us off to a faraway land. With her songs, she created a separate universe. With her voice, she almost made time stand still. This was Cécile Corbel in concert at the Grace Episcopal Church on Friday night, sponsored by the Alliance Française. A na [...]
We see people walking on streets all the time. There is hardly anything unusual about that. But what about a defined procession of people, sharing nothing in common but a spark of interest in their faces? Such a curious scene was in full force at a recent event entitled Microfictions, a “reading circuit” organized by [...]
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