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Seu Jorge tour Tribute to David Bowie will pass through Paris in May

We dreamed, we heard: Seu Jorge will perform in Paris in 2017 as part of his stage tribute to David Bowie. Always on tour in North America, the singer-guitarist-pop sambiste crosses the Atlantic in 2017 in order to present the program loaded in emotion. He will play May 31, 2017 at the Olympia.

Since early November, Seu Jorge , 46, runs the North American continent – the United States and Canada – to present, alone on stage, her repertoire of Portuguese adaptations of classic David Bowie, disappeared on January 10, 2016. A book he released in 2004 in the offbeat comedy “the Life aquatic” by Wes Anderson, a film very loosely based on the adventures of commander Cousteau … During filming, he had sung in the conditons of live. Continue reading “Seu Jorge tour Tribute to David Bowie will pass through Paris in May” →

The centenary of Léo Ferré: the exclusive interview

Born August 24, 1916, Léo Ferré would have been 100 years old this year.In November 1990, before a recital at Déjazet theater, libertarian theater in Paris, the artist gave an interview to two journalists from France 3 Paris, Rouzane Avanissian and Ambroise Perrin. It is this document, remained largely unpublished part to date, that Culturebox exclusively offers.

Paris, November 1990. Once again Leo Ferre is on show at the TLP Déjazet. TLP as Libertarian Theatre in Paris. In this place committed to the Paris scene, it really feels at home. Ferré has published its penultimate album, “The old boys.”

In 1990, let us remember, is the war of Kuwait, Saddam Hussein is the enemy of George Bush before eleven years later that of his son. 1990, in South Africa, the end of apartheid. In France, President Mitterrand began two years before his second term, 100,000 students demonstrate in Paris and Léo Ferré 74 years.

In this first part of the interview he gave on November 9 journalists FR3 Rouzane Avanissian and Ambroise Perrin, he speaks of rebellion, anger, the couple or the great mystery of our existence.
Listen to interview en français : The centenary of Léo Ferré: the exclusive interview

Review: God Is Alive and Crabby, According to ‘The Brand New Testament’ – The New York Times

In the Belgian filmmaker Jaco Van Dormael’s wickedly amusing religious satire, “The Brand New Testament,” God (Benoît Poelvoorde) is a snarling, meanspirited bully who rules the universe from an apartment in Brussels. Inside his locked office, surrounded by walls of card files, the tyrannical, perpetually bored deity sits behind a computer and plays nasty practical jokes on humans.

A favorite pastime is contriving Laws of Annoyance, like making sure that when a piece of toast falls, it always lands with the jelly side down.God’s wife (Yolande Moreau) is a silent, slavishly dutiful housekeeper; his son, JC, has been reduced to a statue. It remains for his rebellious young daughter, Ea (Pili Groyne), to flout his authority.

Sneaking into his office, she hacks into his computer and, in what the news media later names “DeathLeaks,” sends text messages to everyone in the world, informing all of the dates of their deaths. Suddenly, millions are free to use the time they have left as they see fit. One daredevil, assured of a long life, keeps jumping from heights and landing safely [ . . .  ] Read Full New York Times Review