Several unions had called the French to mobilize everywhere in France on Tuesday, against the social policy of the government. Nearly 300,000 people demonstrated in several regions of France according to the CGT. Some universities have been blocked [ . . . ]
Source: Interprofessional mobilization day: events all over France
Farmers and hunters in the French Pyrenees have attempted to move two female bears towards the Spanish side of the border using “scare tactics”.
According to reports, this weekend around 100 shepherds, farmers, hunters, and local government members from the Ossau valley, the Hautes-Pyrénées, and the surrounding areas, met up in the mountains in an attempt to move away two female brown bears that had just been released.
The gendarmerie confirmed that “some” farmers, hunters and ministers “had started a battle of scare tactics in the Pyrénées-Atlantiques” [ . . . ]
Source: Farmers in French Pyrenees try to scare bears to Spain
Every day brings a lot of alarming news about the planet, always darkening our horizon. Never have we been so informed about the inevitability and imminence of what is looming: the end of the world, nothing less. And yet? We know and yet we can not really believe it. In a brief and dense essay, Pierre-Henri Castel think lucidly the new situation in which we find ourselves, the time of the end that open, prologue to the end of time. He will be joined in the second part, the writer David Diop, author of the literary season Brother Soul, a novel seized with the question of evil through the figure of a Senegalese soldier plunged into madness trenches WWI.
Listen at: Les temps de la fin (avant la fin des temps)
The Breton singer returns with his eleventh studio album “Les Rescapés”, released on September 28th. If Christophe Miossec has always been a little apart in the French song, it seems with this opus have found a certain serenity, but always with an inner urgency that pushes him to write and compose, again and again. A music he describes himself as “organic”.
The first song opens with a statement of urgency: “we are the survivors, we are the survivors” sings Miossec. The text echoes the current issues, be it climate change or migrants.
But the singer also describes it as a very personal song. Because he considers himself a miracle worker who has been able to continue to work, despite a sinuous path, off the beaten path.
“The survivors” was built from May 2017 to April 2018, in three distinct periods.
Brest first with Mirabelle Gilis and Leander Lyons. Old-fashioned recording sessions with “pre-program” instruments: a piano, organ, mellotron, and an Elka branded Italian drum machine. Always this desire to remain “organic”, to propose a carnal music, with flower of skin.
Then second stage at Badabing studio by Julien Delfaud where the songs are recorded live, with Mirabelle Gilis again, but also Laurent Bardainne and Sylvain Daniel. The pieces take shape with the added bass more present.
Finally, the Garage studio for the mixing phase with Dominique Ledudal. Miossec adds all the guitar parts, which he plays himself.
The singer from Brest considers this album as his most personal music since “Drinking” in 1995. Witness this other shock song, “the sea”, which, again, refers to the dramas of migrants. The clip shows us the innocence of two kids on a rubber boat, but that seems lacerated by bites: “The sea, when it bites, it’s mean”.
This uncompromising and sharp writing sometimes gives way to more lightness (“The man”) and benevolence (“People”).
The music is also more catchy on “I became” and manages to stay groovy even on the darker themes (“We die”, “The infidels”).
Source: The last album of Miossec “The survivors”: a bubbling serenity
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