Category: Le blogorouni

What is my favorite musical object?

Here are my favourite records released this year:

Dirty Projectors – Swing Lo Magellan
Mina Tindle – Taranta
Django Django
Dark Dark Dark – Who Needs Who
Andrew Bird – Break It Yourself
Barbara Carlotti – L’amour, l’argent, le vent
Bowerbirds – The Clearing
TOPS – Tender Opposites
Laura Gibson – La Grande
Sharon Van Etten – Tramp
Lambchop – Mr. M

The Limes published a playlist of songs we enjoyed in 2012. I put my favourite ones, but which were only released this year.

Here are some other songs I liked this year. It starts with songs from 2012 and then goes back in time.

To finish with, I discovered awesome songs in films I saw this year, and made a playlist with them:

The Three Degrees – Everybody gets to go to the moon (The French connection)
Franklin Boukaka – Le Bûcheron (Viva Riva!)
Mina – Eclisse Twist (L’Eclisse)
Elizete Cardoso – Manha do Carnaval (Orfeu Negro)
Duran Duran – The Chauffeur (Laurence anyways)
Violeta Parra – Volver a los Diecisiete (Violeta)
Ketty Lester – Love Letters (Cogan)
Karen O – Strange Love (Frankenweenie)

Here are my favourite films released in French theatres this year:

Cyril Mennegun – Louise Wimmer
Philippe Lefebvre – Une nuit
Gilles Balbastre + Yannick Kergoat – Les nouveaux chiens de garde
Safinez Bousbia – El Gusto
David Fincher – The girl with the dragon tattoo

Guillaume Brac – Un monde sans femmes
Guy Maddin – Keyhole
Michaël R. Roskam – Bullhead
Joachim Trier – Oslo, August 31st

Stéphane Lafleur – En terrains connus
Andrey Zvyagintsev – Elena
Paul Lacoste – Entre les Bras
Virginie Despentes – Bye Bye Blondie

Julie Delpy – 2 days in New York
Fernand Melgar – Vol spécial
Benoît Forgeard – Réussir sa vie
Emmanuel Finkiel – Je suis
Özcan Alper – Future lasts forever

Sebastián Silva + Pedro Peirano – Gatos viejos
J. C. Chandor – Margin call
Konstantin Bojanov – Avé
Jonathan Caouette – Walk away Renee

Tim Burton – Dark shadows
Wes Anderson – Moonrise kingdom
Mohamed Diab – 678
Claudine Nougaret + Raymond Depardon – Journal de France
Leos Carax – Holy motors

Asghar Farhadi – The beautiful city
Xavier Dolan – Laurence anyways
Pascal Bonitzer – Cherchez Hortense
Mamoru Hosoda – Wolf children

William Friedkin – Killer Joe
Quentin Dupieux – Wrong
John Hillcoat – Lawless

Craig Zobel – Compliance
Whit Stillman – Damsels in Distress
Matteo Garrone – Reality
François Ozon – Dans la maison

Jaime Rosales – Sueño y silencio
Hong Sang-soo – In another country
Katsuya Tomita – Saudade
Régis Sauder – Être là

Thomas Vinterberg – The hunt
Rachid Djaïdani – Rengaine
Cristian Mungiu – Beyond the hills
Claude Miller – Thérèse Desqueyroux

Sébastien Lifshitz – Les invisibles
Kim Nguyen – Rebelle
Andrea Arnold – Wuthering heights

Miguel Gomes – Tabu
Michel Leclerc – Télé Gaucho

Here are some art shows I particularly enjoyed this year in Paris:

La France en relief – Grand Palais
Marcel Storr, bâtisseur volontaire – Pavillon Carré de Baudouin
L’invention du sauvage – Musée du Quai Branly
Josef Albers – Centre Pompidou

Debussy, la musique et les arts – Musée de l’Orangerie
Matisse, paires et séries – Centre Pompidou
Le crépuscule des pharaons – Musée Jacquemart-André
Doisneau, Paris Les Halles – Hôtel de Ville

Cima – Musée du Luxembourg
La Presse à la Une – BnF Mitterrand
Degas et le nu – Musée d’Orsay
Eugène Atget, Paris – Musée Carnavalet

Radio : ouvrez grand vos oreilles – CNAM
Monumenta 2012 – Buren – Grand Palais
Laurent Grasso : “Uraniborg” – Jeu de Paume
Gerhard Richter – Centre Pompidou

Paris vu par Hollywood – Hôtel de Ville
Les arts de l’Islam – Musée du Louvre
Canaletto – Musée Maillol
Chaïm Soutine, l’ordre du chaos – Musée de l’Orangerie

Victor Baltard, le fer et le pinceau – Musée d’Orsay
L’âge d’or des cartes marines – BnF François Mitterrand
Nigeria, arts de la vallée de la Benoué – Musée du Quai Branly
La photographie en France, 1950-2000 – Maison européenne de la photographie

Manuel Álvarez Bravo – Jeu de Paume
Voici Paris, modernités photographiques – Centre Pompidou

Here is a review of our concert at L’International.

We’ll be playing at L’international (Paris) on December 10th.

If you want to read, hear or watch new things, they are posted rather there that on this blog, sorry.

Thank you Agorafrog for this interview.

July 15^th 1:30 pm at Café A – Paris

September 23^rd 7:30 pm at La Scène Bastille – Paris