Protégé : Jeanne a 4 ans !!!
C’est samedi, alors on commence le week-end par un petit morceau de plaisir pur, merci Chan Marshall:
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Si vous trouvez qu’elle danse bizarrement, c’est parce qu’elle était sobre ce jour-là .
« Le Grand Content« , par Clemens Kogler, cherche un potentiel philosophique dans l’omniprésente culture « powerpoint »*. Le récit est une sorte de cadavre exquis à l’aide d’intersections et de diagrammes (traduction approximative de, en anglais: « association-chain-massacre »), par lequel le présentateur se propose de résoudre toutes les questions de l’univers, et plus si affinité. Evidemment, il échoue lamentablement, mais dans son échec, il arrive néanmoins à éclairer de manière subtile les relations entre des sujets -gravissimes – tels que la mort, la télévision, les émotions et les hamsters.
Une co-production Karo Szmit. Andre Tschinder est le commentateur Les diagrammes sont inspirés du site indexed.blogspot.com créé par Jennifer Hagy.
* powerpoint: logiciel de la suite Microsoft Office utilisé pour la présentation de contenu à haute teneur « corporate ».
Ok, i’ll write this in English just in case Lisa Germano passes by this blog and reads this humble personal review of her performance of yesterday at the Botanique (you never know, the Ways of the Net are infinite).
Lisa Germano‘s simplicity breaks the usual codes of relationship between an artist and its audience. She came alone this time, with a piano and a guitar. She appeared shortly before the show to do her own stage checks: I thought: apparently Lisa is all by herself in this: no accompanying musician, no roadies, just she, crossing the ocean to meet her audience. The graceful forever-young 48-years-old silouette swiftly went from microphone stands to piano seat, doing a few checks and giving away a few smiles at the audience then disappeared back in the backstage for the proper intro. Simplicity itself.
The lights dimmed out and she came for real that time, grabbed the guitar, Saluted the audience. The softest voice of all said how happy she was to be back here to play in this concert hall she’s come to love (the Rotonde). And then came the first notes, and then the shivers, and the magick started. It seemed she took a deep breath and breathed out her music, capturing the audience, the whole world it seemed, then breathing it back inside her tiny self. Lisa bounced back and forth between the piano and the guitar. She was looking both extremely fragile, and at the same time, the music she was interpreting is so « very » intense and unique it is really magick, lead turned into gold, the power of perfection.
20 or so songs later, after willingly playing the live jukebox (« ok, i really can only do two more songs, which one would you like? »), the audience found out it had been hypnotized by the immense talent of a witch called Lisa Germano. A witch so talented, and yet so casual, she seems to be so much beyond success that it must not be easy being her agent :-). (So much indeed that she dedicated to her agent that had faith enough in the new album to go through the ordeal of putting up with her own resistances).
Thank you Lisa for giving out your music, thank you for crossing the ocean to give us once again the proof that music is really magickal, i hope you continue breathing records until you die at 120 years old!!
The rest of us can listen to the track « Too Much Space » on her latest album « In the Maybe world » here:
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Official website – buy the new album – fan site (lots of material!)
