Slameur, Grand Corps Malade adapts his autobiographical novel “Patients” with Mehdi Idir, which is also the first realization. Given the subject and talent of the slammer, the film is rather identified and little is known about the contribution of his partner. The result is none the less astonishing of justness, funny, romantic, on a subject that hardly lends itself to it: hospitalization [ . . . ]
Read Full Story: Grand Corps Malade films his joyous ordeal in “Patients”
I am listening to a lot of Yael Naim of late, and I was excited to find this video of Yael performing with New Orleans-based cellist (playing the banjo here) Leyla McCalla, formerly of the Carolina Chocolate Drops. I love this tune – the only song on Naim’s album “Older” where she sings in Hebrew. Naim was born in Paris in 1978. When she was 4, her family immigrated to Israel and settled in Ramat Hasharon. In May 2004, she decided to settle permanently in Paris.
Chanson Du Jour: Yael Naim with Leyla McCalla – “Ima”
Chanson Du Jour: Benjamin Biolay “Little Darlin”
Beneath Benjamin Biolay’s Gainsbourg-inspired whisper, the artist samples from The Carter Family’s “Little Darlin, Pal of Mine.” The Carter Family were the very first vocal group to become country music stars in America – so how cool is this? Très!
I really like Biolay. And he’s the only guy in the world who had an affair with Carla Bruni, but maybe wished he had the affair with his ex- Mother-in-Law (Catherine Deneuve.) Of course, none of this is my affair!
Rodolphe Burger & Philippe Poirier
I am a new fan of Rodolphe Burger and captivated by this recording, which blends the dark and delicious minimalism of Nick Cave, the Velvet Underground and Serge Gainsbourg
Fabien Marsaud’s name may not tell you much. And for good reason, this name is hidden behind that of Grand Corps Malade, the slammer to the five albums, but also the co-director of the film “Patients” presented in preview at the Festival of Film of Love which takes place until Friday at Mons, Belgium.
Victim of a sports accident at the age of 20, Fabien Marsaud finds himself quadriplegic incomplete, forcing him to review the copy of his life. For him, 1997 will be the year of change, of a new beginning. He will swap the basketball against the ballpoint pen. A conversion he will undertake successfully. He will now be called Grand Corps Malade.
His handicap, Fabien spoke in his slam “The Sixth Sense”. But in 2012, he wants to talk more about it through his book “Patients”, which now enjoys a cinematographic adaptation. The talent of Grand Corps Malade is reflected through the writing of the script and its co-realization with its longtime accomplice Medhi Idir. With modesty and strength, the duo of directors moved all the festival-goers of the Festival of the Film of Love of Mons where it was presented in preview [ . . . ]
Full Interview: Grand Corps Sick: from slam to big screen [interview]
To the right, to the left, to the right, it is necessary to follow the Saïkaly … Whether in interview or at the level of his career, Saïkaly runs to lose breath and wins everything in its path. Remember Bip Beep & The Coyote? Well, it’s the same thing. After winning the Prix du public d’Avignon Off 2015 for his performance in Les Garçons Manqués (with the writer Nicolas Rey), Saïkaly publishes his first album today. A Million Particles is a seductive disc that takes its time. A true parenthesis in the rhythm of his unrestrained life, he distilled a certain idea of the folk on which the ghost of Elliott Smith hovers [ . . . ]
Read Full Interview: Mathieu Saïkaly knows how to heal folk (Interviews) | Soul Kitchen
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