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Pop Talk etc... #4 Folk ? Pop ? Rock ? Psychedelic ? Electronica ? ... It's difficult to define precisely the music of the English musician Jack Cheshire, and yet, for the last ten years and the realization of 5 albums, he has been indisputably inscribing an elegant and convoluted songwriting at the heart of the rich British musical scene ... Like a modest and determined artisan, he weaves from album to album a delicate and bewitching canvas which reveals all its splendour to those who...

#ScèneFrançaise #2 Trésor "trop" bien caché de la scène musicale française, Simon Merle, après avoir longtemps officié sous le patronyme de The Bankees, s'est décidé depuis peu à créer à visage découvert, quoique ? 😉 ... Chantre - par choix ? - d'un DIY tout autant érudit que libre, il réussit à perpétuer une écriture ô combien délicate héritée des sixties en la transfigurant avec grâce ... En jouant souvent à cache-cache avec ses modèles, il finit toujours par se perdre et nous amène...

Pop Talk etc... #3 For almost 40 years, English musician Terry Edwards has been taking his talent and adventurous spirit to the heart of the rock scene ... Whether it's for his personal projects or during his many collaborations, the work of this multi-instrumentalist is a manifesto for breaking down musical borders, and all this while keeping an unfailing integrity ... A visceral love of music that transpires here behind each of his words and that must be (re)discovered on the 3CD "The...

VIPop #42 Le Village Pop discovered Marianne Dissard's music late, so it's all the more urgent to catch up with her ... Marianne was born in France, but has since spent a large part of her life in the Anglo-Saxon world ... Her music, like her, is nomadic as much as it's expressionist... Borrowing elements from here and there from her successive home ports, she has succeeded in creating a deeply personal universe where "lukewarm" has no place... To be breathed fully here, punchlines...

#ScèneFrançaise #1 Auteure-compositrice-interprète, Sarah Amsellem a sorti son premier album "Miracles" en 2019 et fait preuve depuis d'une appétence et d'une liberté dans son travail véritablement réjouissantes ... Chantant alternativement ses textes, soit en français, soit en anglais, elle navigue ainsi au gré des mots sur différents registres mais toujours avec une profonde musicalité ... Le voyage n'en est sans doute encore qu'à son début, mais arrêtons-nous tout de même 1/4 h pour...

Pop Talk etc... #2 Why the music of Sage Francis once entered your mind will never leave you ? ... Maybe because it doesn't do anything for that ? ... Maybe because the deep love of hip-hop that this music conveys is so powerful that it allows it to take all the unexpected paths without asking false questions? ... Maybe because this unique flow carries a visceral but floating quest that is forever removed from any dogmatism ? ... Maybe also simply because Sage Francis has the pride, the...

VIPop #41 It's an understatement to say that at the Pop Village we love The Wave Pictures ... We adore them ! ... Over the past twenty years, this English trio has become an icon of a certain DIY rock'n'roll, but for us, The Wave Pictures are above all a racy and erudite songwriting, and 3 excellent musicians united as a gang for the love of music ... In concert, whether they play in front of 10 or 1000 people, their commitment is the same and they don't need to turn up the decibels to make...

Pop Talk etc... #1 Ben Vaughn is great ... Deeply in love with American popular music, his career is a model of freedom and integrity ... If public success has not always been there, it doesn't matter, he has never ceased to show his curiosity and desire to make his music and to help others discover music that is often forgotten or denigrated ... Come and discover here a clear, fair word where you can feel behind each word a "flame" that is not ready to be extinguished ... Doesn't Ben...

Ben Vaughn is great ... Deeply in love with American popular music, his career is a model of freedom and integrity ... If public success has not always been there, it doesn't matter, he has never ceased to show his curiosity and desire to make his music and to help others discover music that is often forgotten or denigrated ... Come and discover here a clear, fair word where you can feel behind each word a "flame" that is not ready to be extinguished ... Doesn't Ben Vaughn simply have...

Ben Vaughn is great ... Deeply in love with American popular music, his career is a model of freedom and integrity ... If public success has not always been there, it doesn't matter, he has never ceased to show his curiosity and desire to make his music and to help others discover music that is often forgotten or denigrated ... Come and discover here a clear, fair word where you can feel behind each word a "flame" that is not ready to be extinguished ... Doesn't Ben Vaughn simply have...

Ben Vaughn is great ... Deeply in love with American popular music, his career is a model of freedom and integrity ... If public success has not always been there, it doesn't matter, he has never ceased to show his curiosity and desire to make his music and to help others discover music that is often forgotten or denigrated ... Come and discover here a clear, fair word where you can feel behind each word a "flame" that is not ready to be extinguished ... Doesn't Ben Vaughn simply have...

VIPop #40 If yours truly could be reborn under another physical appearence, he would like it to be at least with the voice of Ane Brun... Never have the intentions and subtleties of a human being been better embodied than in this voice of infinite capacity, yet always shunning any vocal "performance" ... Author, composer, musician, singer and creator of her own label, Balloon Ranger Recordings, since the beginning, Ane Brun's career is a model of autonomy and forces admiration... Strongly...

VIPop #39 We remember very well the moment when we first heard Brian Lopez's music and the feeling of astonishment as well as of obviousness that seized us then ... Because the greatness of this music is to succeed, from very diverse musical influences, in creating a universe as rich as coherent, where Brian Lopez's voice can reign supreme, as overwhelming on an intimate ballad as it's bewitching between two psychedelic riffs of Xixa, his current project with Gabriel Sullivan ... Boarding...

VIPop #38 Why is Emily Jane White today the most important voice of "Dark Folk"? ... Quite simply because she's above all a true artist, open to the world, who cannot be reduced to a musical trend ... Because in her work, she knows how to marry pastoral and luxuriance in a marvellous way and the form is always at the service of high-flying songwriting ... Because the emotion conveyed by her voice with its multiple possibilities is based above all on accuracy rather than on overbidding ......

VIPop #37 One never comes out unscathed from listening to a Songdog album ... Led masterfully by the Welshman Lyndon Morgans, the depth of this universe, with its exacerbated romanticism, is not easily revealed ... It's however by the flamboyance of this imagination deployed here, at the heart of a musicality as rich as it is subtle, that he succeeds in highlighting the greatness and decadence of our human condition ... Lyndon Morgans is an artist at the deepest level, and he has the...

VIPop #36 For 25 years, the New Yorkers of Elysian Fields, around the duo Jennifer Charles and Oren Bloedow, have succeeded in perpetuating a unique, alchemical sound, made up of roughness, sensuality and an ever-flush light. The quality of their discography over time is truly impressive, and apart from the fact that it's of course primarily the result of a fertile talent, it 's also the result of a searching and benevolent humanity that fully nourishes us like distant friends and yet so...

VIPop #35 Without looking for it in the least, James Yorkston has become a kind of master-standard of folk-music ... For the last twenty years, this Scottish singer-songwriter has made this territory his playground and exploration, by bringing in a pop and libertarian spirit, in particular ... And he's as moving as he's just on totally stripped down songs that he's warmly communicative on songs with more lyrical flights, often shared with other excellent musicians ... And you know why ? ......

VIPop #34 Erik Arnaud est rare, et il nous est très cher … S'il existe autant de trajectoires d'artistes que d'artistes, ce qui est certain c'est que depuis ses débuts à la fin des années 90, il nous a habitué à recevoir de ses nouvelles avec parcimonie … La joie qui est la nôtre aujourd'hui de l'accueillir dans notre Collection VIPop en est d'autant plus grande … Pour le reste, se dévoile ici une œuvre de franc-tireur, entre lucidité au scalpel, désenchantement générationnel et « love...

VIPop #33 Michael J. Sheehy is both an artist of immense talent and a summary of the history of rock ... Since the creation of the Dream City Film Club more than 20 years ago, he has walked an often chaotic road, but behind this poisonous flamboyance, this visceral blues or this melancholic appeasement, there is also the journey of a man who is certainly deeply attached to becoming what he is and it's truly a deep joy for us to give you the opportunity to hear this right word. Michael J....

VIPop #32 What a joy to welcome The Monochrome Set for a VIPop ! ... 40 years of existence for this unclassifiable English band ...Pop ? Rock ? Punk ? New-Wave ? ... Certainly all this at the same time ... Some "Stop & Go", some movements among the musicians, but an always unique style and an intact energy around the singer Bid ... He is the one who answered our questions and he wins to this day the Grand Prix for the most laconic answers among all the episodes of the VIPop Collection ! 😀...