Category: Culture

Birds on a Wire in Flying Concerts – Watch the full program | ARTE Concert

Birds on a Wire is the project of singer Rosemary Standley (voice of Moriarty) and cellist Dom La Nena. The two artists weave an entire universe built around song and emotion. A symbiosis that allows them to take back, in their own way, musical monuments ranging from Fairouz to Bob Dylan.Two voices and a cello, that’s all it takes for Birds on a Wire to immerse us in a universe as refined as it is moving.

The words that escape the duo – in French, English, Italian or even Arabic depending on the song – seem to be sung for us, in the hollow of our ears. We find this feeling of intimacy in Birds on a Wire , a first album published in 2014.On the stage of the Concerts Volants ,Rosemary Standley and Dom La Nena come to defend a new album called Ramages .

In this opus published at the beginning of the year by [PIAS], the duo once again have fun hijacking songs from all over the world: “Wish you were here” by Pink Floyd, a traditional Breton song, “Les berceaux “by Gabriel Fauré, a Russian folk song… Nothing can resist Birds on a Wire.

Concert captured on September 21, 2021 at the Institut du Monde Arabe, Paris.

 

Source: Birds on a Wire in Flying Concerts – Watch the full program | ARTE Concert

Pomme in live session at Paris’ La Cartonnerie

Awarded at the Victoire de la musique this year, the young singer Pomme takes over La Cartonnerie for an intimate session!Between Paris and Montreal, the 24-year-old author, composer and performer unveils pop-folk music in a melancholy atmosphere.

Discovered three years ago with her album ” À propos”, her project comes to life on stage when she meets her audience during a tour of over 300 concerts. Back in 2019 with her new album “Les failles” then during her reissue entitled “Les Failles Cachées” in February 2020, the singer takes us into her sensitive and refined universe. Behind his guitar, Pomme recounts his doubts and his wounds using writing as real therapy.

At La Cartonnerie in Paris, Pomme performs the songs “La lumière”, “Les cours d’eau” and “Soleil soleil” live!

Watch the concert at: Apple in live session at La Cartonnerie – streaming video | France tv

Music History in the here and now

In the latest of her Global Music Match dispatches, The Magpies’ Holly Brandon meets up with Canadian trio VISHTEN, whose music thrillingly combines a rich cultural heritage with contemporary rock

MULTI-INSTRUMENTALISTS Emmanuelle and Pastelle LeBlanc and Pascal Miousse — Vishten — have been dazzling audiences with a fierylend of traditional French songs and original instrumentation for over a decade.

The name Vishten is a nod to the eponymous song whose lyrics are a percussive amalgam of French, Mi’kmaq and English, a musical realisation of the band’s fascinating Acadian heritage.

For millennia Acadia, a region in north-eastern North America, was occupied by the Mi’kmaq people. It was colonised by the French in 1604, hence the strong Francophone influence in the songs, while subsequent settlers from Ireland and Scotland left their Celtic stamp on the music

In the 1750s, following the British conquest, the Acadians’ refusal to swear allegiance to the British crown resulted in a deportation that saw the expulsion of almost 12,000 Acadians to the British-American colonies further south. When they returned, they added their newfound US influences to the Acadian musical melting pot. Continue reading “Music History in the here and now” →