Category: Culture
Pomme, the aspiring singer who goes up
A 23 ans, l’artiste défend en tournée « Les Failles », son enthousiasmant deuxième opus, en lice pour un prix dans la catégorie « Album révélation » aux Victoires de la musique, vendredi .
The early bird woke up at noon. The day before, Monday, January 27, the well-deserved celebration continued late after the first triumph of three Apple concerts in the Parisian hall of La Cigale (before February 28 and April 9, all sold out), accompanied by his news instrumentalists, Clémence Lasme (bass and keyboards) and Caroline Geryl (drums and percussion). Little excess – Claire Pommet, 23, does not drink alcohol – but a lot of friends and laughs to prolong emotions “so strong that I have the impression that a truck drove me on the head ” , laughs the singer, seated at the Edith Piaf bar, close to her little two-room apartment, in the 20 th arrondissement of Paris.
The truck is not ready to stop. Nearly a hundred other concerts should punctuate 2020, in the wake of an exciting second opus, Les Failles , published in November 2019 (and recently reissued, supplemented by five unreleased, under the name Les Failles cachées ), including l shivering acoustics will perhaps win him a Victoire de la musique, Friday, February 14, in the category “Revelation album”. [ . . . ]
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Catherine Ringer: “I don’t like people to know what I think and what I do”
For forty years, the songs of Rita Mitsouko have accompanied us. Today, Catherine Ringer is named as female artist of the year at the Victoires de la Musique for her tour. Catherine Ringer sings Les Rita Mitsouko , which brings together sentimental crowds. Interview with a great secret.
She shakes hands, firmly. Rehearsals have just ended at Studio Bleu, adjoining the New Morning, in the Strasbourg-Saint-Denis district, in Paris. She asks where we are going, the Napoleon? All right, let’s go. But first, she shows us the dancers’ changing rooms, because she loves dancing, firmly there too. We feel assured and fierce, shy and brave. We were warned here and there that Catherine Ringer was no small task. But there was no doubt, from the broken tooth, the strapless dress marked Jean Paul Gaultier in the clip by Marcia Baïla , the unstructured haircuts, the explosive voice, the shimmering clothes, the gesture mixing flamenco with jerky expressions. and robotics, the clash with Gainsbourg on the sofa, the past X.
The Rita Mitsouko, this clever mix of genres, duo of whimsical lovers and pranksters born in 1979, evoking Sailor and Lula as much as Gomez and Morticia Addams, Almodóvar’s movida than the punk of dirty caves, their heads constantly immersed in a vast musical well, without censorship or constraint, digging up sounds to better hack new, creating immense tubes like Marcia Baïla , Andy and C’est comme ça , stacking the levels of readings, seizing the clip format from the start with Philippe Gautier and Jean-Baptiste Mondino, falling in love with free figuration with Robert Combas and Di Rosa, appearing in Soigne ta droite(1987) de Godard, taking care of the funny face and the zinzin, the irony and the mockery, solid because riveted to each other, with some crashes all the same here and there.
Forty years after their formation, thirteen years after the death of Fred Chichin, Catherine Ringer publishes the complete reissue of the Rita Mitsouko, nine albums with new releases and two legendary films shot by Roland Allard in Moscow ( Breakdown in the Cold War, 1989) and in Bombay ( La Vie du rail, 1990). And is named to the Victoires de la musique 2020 in the female artist of the year category. She does not like to tell herself very much, out of a taste for mystery and a certain posture, perhaps also because it is hard to describe the atypism of their tandem in the French rock landscape, from India and halo of success, poetic and stupid of scenes, cartoonesque and follower of the autopastiche. The Rita, quite simply.
You are nominated for the Victoires de la Musique in the female artist of the year category. Do prices matter to you?
Catherine Ringer – Yes and no. It’s nice to know that we are thinking of you, at the same time it is not fundamental. I wonder especially why Aya Nakamura is not there since it is she who has done everything for two years. She has fantastic life energy. His work on language and rhythm is very beautiful. And then I also said to myself: “Well, I am named as a female artist, but I would have liked to be named also for the best album of the year!”
It’s surprising that there are only men in this category, right?
Maybe it’s because they made the best albums of the year. We are not going to make the par everywhere everywhere anyway!
Does it swell you?
These are endless discussions. My first reaction is to say “Where does it end? How about half the young and half the old too ?! ”But I also know that there are glass ceilings to break. I have no definite answer.
Source: Catherine Ringer: “I don’t like people to know what I think and what I do” – Les Inrocks
To ban or not to ban? What future for pesticides and GMOs in the EU?
French Agriculture Minister Didier Guillaume tells Catherine Nicholson why he believes a transition to lower-chemical farming is essential and how he thinks it can be achieved.
Meanwhile, Green MEP – and organic farmer himself – Benoît Biteau tells us why what he learnt converting his father’s farm to greener practices can be replicated.
In our reports, we meet some of the mayors who have banned pesticides around their towns and find out more about the conflict with the farming community. We also meet French farmers who are testing how to reduce their dependence on chemical pesticides
Source: To ban or not to ban? What future for pesticides and GMOs in the EU? (part 1) – Talking Europe
Birds On a Wire in Villejuif, France
Nowadays, Paris is for lovers of beer as well as wine. Check out these locations
Brasserie might mean brewery, but only recently are Parisian establishments getting back to ale.
For a drinker interested in quality and value, wine can sometimes seem like the only option in this city. Every street, it seems, has its own cave à vin, complete with regional focus and invariably helpful staff, if you speak French. My favorites include Les Caves Saint-Martin on Rue du Faubourg Saint-Martin, where I once bought two bottles of an excellent grower champagne on the recommendation of the shop owner, and Trois Fois Vin on Rue Notre Dame de Nazareth.
The great food halls devote huge amounts of space to France’s most famous wine regions. I remember wandering into the recently reopened Galeries Lafayette food hall (“Lafayette Gourmet”) in 2014 to find acre upon acre of wine, the vast majority of it French (including 1,200 options from Bordeaux alone!). There were a few desultory shelves of beer.
It hasn’t always been like this: Brasserie, after all, means brewery. When Alsatians founded these palaces of gustatory gratification in the late 19th century, there was often brewing on-site. There still is at Brasserie Georges, which reinstalled a brewery in 2004, but that’s in Lyon. Paris’s mightiest brasseries long ago gave up grain for grape.
Beer is flowing in establishments with a young, energetic vibe
But things are changing. Breweries and bars are popping up throughout the city. It’s a young, energetic scene, exemplified by the annual Paris Beer Festival (formerly Paris Beer Week). That the name is in English rather than French is telling; much of Paris’s modern beer culture has more than a hint of Anglo-Saxon influence. That said, there’s a definite Gallic edge to places such as La Fine Mousse, an elegant bar and restaurant in the Marais, or breweries such as La Goutte d’Or, which uses ingredients reflecting the rich diversity of the local neighborhood.
The heart of this nascent Beervana can be found in northeast Paris, where rents are lower and the population younger. Around the Bassin de la Villette, a half-mile-long artificial lake in the 19th arrondissement, you’ll find Paname Brewing, a brewpub where the New England IPA is called Brexiteer (an example of how the French occasionally conflate “Anglo-Saxon” countries), and L’Atalante, with a huge outdoor terrace that fills up with young Parisians on summer evenings.
One of the most interesting breweries is Gallia: Originally founded in 1890, it was reestablished as a brand at the end of 2009. At first, the resurrected brand’s founders, Guillaume Roy and Jacques Ferté, focused on conservative pale lagers — but under head brewer Rémy Maurin, the range has expanded to encompass an impressive variety of flavors and styles.
It hasn’t gone unnoticed; in September, Heineken bought a minority share. Most bars in this city are tied to big brands such as Heineken or Kronenbourg. If they start offering customers the likes of Gallia, it’ll be a genuine game-changer.
It’s about time. Paris sits on the dividing line between northern Europe, where beer has traditionally held sway, and the wine-drinking south. Only Champagne, of France’s great wine regions, is further north, and it has (or had, until global warming) a fairly marginal grape-growing climate. This is natural beer country; it’s only right that Beaujolais, Bordeaux and the rest make room for la bière artisanale.
Will Hawkes is a freelance travel and drinks writer based in London.
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