Saxophonist Nora Kamm embarks on a new musical adventure with “One”.
Fusing jazz with African rhythms and songs into a whole is the approach of One, Nora Kamm’s third album. At 36, the German saxophonist, singer and composer makes a true declaration of love for Africa. Ten titles that transcend genres and break down the boundaries between styles and continents. One Nora Kamm’s latest album was […]
Writer Noël Nétonon Ndjekery: “We must tell our own story from our feelings”
The cultural guest is the Swiss-Chadian writer Noël Nétonon Ndjékery, who won the 2022 Black Africa Grand Prix for his novel There are no rainbows in the sky. Nétonon Ndjékéry, who lives in Switzerland, has been dealing with questions of collective memory and history for several years. Discovery of this exceptional writer. The Swiss-Chadian writer […]
French director Rémi Bezançon: “Talking about art is a way of talking about cinema”
Renzo Nervi, a painter who has experienced his finest hour, finds himself in the midst of an existential and artistic crisis. His gallery owner and friend will do everything to get him excited about painting again. Here is the starting point of the comedy Un coup de maître, in cinemas this Wednesday, directed by Rémi […]
Comics: Florent Silloray shares the ‘completely insane’ story of filming ‘Apocalyse Now’
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It is one of the most iconic films in the history of cinema. A grandiose fresco on the Vietnam War. But the story of its making shaped Hollywood, too: typhoons, starring sacking, abominable climate, tropical diseases and drugs galore, pharaonic budget overruns. We are talking aboutapocalypse now by Francis Ford Coppola. A comic edited by […]
Pierre De Maere: “This win for music is the reward for the pros and I wasn’t sure if I was going to get it”
He made himself known to the general public last year with a first album bearing the title One day I will marry an angel. Last February, he won a Victoire de la Musique in the Male Revelation category. Since then, Pierre De Maere has multiplied the concerts. It can be seen at many festivals this […]
Photography: “Grey Sun”, route between poetic inventory and geography
The cultural guests are Éric Tabuchi and Nelly Monnier, two photographers who capture in images the France that you never see in tourist brochures: industrial ruins, improbable buildings, gas stations, etc. An incredible photographic work, collaborated since 2017 for the Atlas of Natural Regions of France was undertaken, there are 450. At the Rencontres Photographiques […]
Music: Sandra Nkaké’s raspy vocals with the album “Scars”
Sandra Nkaké, the French-Cameroonian singer, closes tomorrow night the Festival Paris l’été, which took place in and around Paris throughout July. The velvety soul singer will perform songs from her latest album scar what scars mean. Texts in French and English that take us on a walk between Cameroon and France, nourished by the journey […]
Fredy Massamba releases an album between “trance and ancestral side”
Congolese composer and performer Fredy Massamba releases a new album. trancestral, his fourth solo album, mixes traditional sounds with soul, rap and hip-hop music, with an emphasis, as always, on songs and voices. An album on which the protective shadow of his mentor, the Congolese pianist Ray Lema, hovers. Fredy Massamba in World Music (Illustrative […]
Eesah Yasuke: “Rap fell on me”
Originally from Roubaix in northern France, Eesah Yasuke continues to break through in the world of rap. The young French singer had won the main prize at the Printemps de Bourge 2022. She has since released a critically acclaimed eight-track debut CD entitled Cadavre exquis. She is currently on tour and will be performing at […]
Patrick Chesnais and his “letters of apology”: “We have a lot to forgive”
Actor Patrick Chesnais, who is also an author, recently published a third book entitled apology letters. In these letters, addressed to relatives, friends, but also to institutions, he humorously uses all varieties of the art of apology. The actor Patrick Chesnais. © -/Loïc Venance Read more on the same topics: