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Ani Kuni (version of Ani Couni Chaouani) by Polo & Pan - Video by Noemi Ferst, Benjamin Moreau and MAY (Vincent Gibaud, Margaux Rosiau, François Sibiude)

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Lou's Neighbour (Le voisin de Lou), Victoria Lafaurie and Hector Albouker (2020)

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Chanson du jour du 11 Février 2024

Voici une chanson a écouter un jour de pluie, quand la journée sera inévitablement plombée. Empreint d’une grâce aérienne, la mélodie nous emporte dans une nostalgie Océane dans laquelle il fait bon de se laisser couler. Titre original de HANGAR (Antonin BARTHEROTTE, Romain PINSOLLE, Pierre-Marie DORNON, Florent PREVOT, Hubert LEBOURGEOIS, Nicolas DAVID) & Victoria LAFAURIE

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Victoria Lafaurie wears Datura Silk Kimono Dress (Passion Red)

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Polo & Pan - Canopée (Superorganism remix)

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Polo & Pan

℗ 2018 Hamburger Records / Ekler'O'Shock

Associated  Performer, Interprète  Instrumental: Polo & Pan  Associated  Performer, Guitar, Interprète  Vocal: Armand Penicaut  Associated  Performer, Interprète  Vocal: Victoria Lafaurie  Studio  Personnel, Remixer: Superorganism  Composer  Lyricist: Alexandre Grynszpan  Composer  Lyricist: Paul Armand-Delille

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Say Goodbye to Quarantine and Hello to Endless Realities With Polo & Pan’s ‘Cyclorama’

Photo: Joe Cruz

Let’s say you are vaccinated, mask-less, and feeling extra grateful as the sun beams down on you and all your friends at the beach. Just as you pop open a cold one, your friend hands you the aux cord (or rather, reveals the Bluetooth name). What do you play?

Polo & Pan (Paul Armand-Delille and Alexandre Grynszpan) have just unveiled Cyclorama, their sophomore album made precisely for such situations, both imagined and in reality. In theatre, “cyclorama” is defined as the “background device employed to cover the back/sides of the stage and used with special lighting to create the illusion of sky, open space, or great distance,” a very fitting title for an album inspired by the duo’s love for French cinema. 

While Polo & Pan’s debut album, Caravelle, took listeners on an expedition aboard their caravel (a small, highly-maneuverable sailing ship) from the Brazilian tropical forest to the banks of the African Congo River, Cyclorama transcends the idea of space altogether, constructing an infinite gateway through time and reality.

The Parisian duo’s blend of house, pop, disco, and psychedelia never allows itself to fall under one genre label but rather can be described as a journey through time, a sonic portal to other countries, cultures, eras, and fictional lands. With Cyclorama, Polo & Pan have somehow managed to surpass the precedent they set with their highly-acclaimed Caravelle, describing the transition in their own words, “It’s a musical odyssey through the steps of human existence from birth to adulthood to death… and transcendence! After our first journey in space with ‘Caravelle,’ we can’t wait to take you on a hedonistic excursion through time with ‘Cyclorama.’”

The album opens with “Côme,” a proper Disney-esque intro into the various soundscapes to come. If Cyclorama was Alice In Wonderland, then “Côme” would certainly be the soundtrack to Alice’s descent down the rabbit hole. We’re immediately catapulted into Polo & Pan’s magical world with “Ani Kuni,” which Alexandre Grynszpan (Pan) wrote for his son “as a tribute to [their] favorite childhood lullaby, a timeless Native-American song that has touched generation after generation all around the world.” Complete with a vibrant visual that doubles up as an enchanting lyric video, “Ani Kuni” is certainly an early standout on Cyclorama.

Next up is “Magic,” an uplifting tune which fans originally heard in Polo & Pan’s Home Sweet Home, an hour-long mixtape released May 2020 that certainly saved many from the bleak depths of quarantine. “Attrape-rêve,” “Feel Good,” and “Peter Pan” were all released as part of the duo’s Feel Good EP in July 2020, embodying the whimsical, free-spirited French escape that we so desperately needed. Victoria Lafaurie, who also performs live with the band, lends her ethereal vocals to “Attrape-Rêve,” which appropriately translates to dream catcher.

The pair shared more on their creative inspiration for Feel Good, “The more we have traveled, both geographically and from a sonic point of view, the larger the canvas. Imagination is memory and by listening to thousands of songs, syntheses are formed in our creative process. We exchange our ideas and choose the best without ever listening to our ego. We let our fantasies speak. ‘Feel Good’ takes us sailing on the Nile or exploring across the Amazon.”

The album transitions from a daytime beach party to a European nightclub circa four a.m. with “Tunnel,” featuring the seductive vocals of none other than Compton-bred rapper, singer, and producer Channel Tres. Armand-Delille and Grynszpan shared on the collaboration, “[Channel Tres] guided us wisely on our first incursion into urban musical territory and ensured we delivered a razor sharp sensual club track together.”

“Requiem” feels like an intermission of sorts, a medley of cinematically- arranged synths leading listeners into the next stage of Polo & Pan’s fantastical voyage. Following the sing-along summer anthem “Feel Good,” we re-enter otherworldly French-kissed territory with “Melody,” “Oasis,” and “Artemis.” “Jiminy” and “Bilboquet (Sirba)” are bouncy, playful, and multi-textured, giving rise to the most romantic track on the Cyclorama, “Les jolies choses.” The song conjures a vignette of Paris in black-and-white with a palpable lust for life and love in the air.  The pair expanded, “It’s an unabashedly romantic description of the beautiful moments of a relationship set in the sandy dunes of ‘Cap-Ferret’. A nostalgic postcard of the French way of life and love.”

“Peter Pan,” the album’s closing track, encapsulates Polo & Pan’s resistance to “growing up” and accordingly, plays out like a lullaby into the endless imagination. 

You can expect Polo & Pan’s Cyclorama to take on an even more elevated, bass-heavy sound on their upcoming tour, hitting major cities in Europe and North America through mid-2022. Take it from someone who was lucky enough to see the duo live twice: this is a show you do not want to miss.

Listen to Cyclorama below:

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Papooz talk ‘The Garden’

France’s Papooz are made up by Armand & Ulysse, a duo originally thrown together as teenagers during boozy gatherings of literary obsessives in Paris. Regularly bunking off from studies at the Sorbonne, they would meet up at the city’s Luxembourg Gardens. Early and altogether more earnest aspirations - made whilst outrunning the garden’s guards in a haze of weed smoke. 

We spoke to the duo, getting their thoughts on ‘The Garden’ as well as discussing some of their upcoming projects...

How have you guys been? What have you been up to?

We’re great. We’re both in Paris working on the recordings of our third album. We did a recording session with our live band at our drummer’s studio (La Ferme Records) in the south-west of France, near Bordeaux, the minute confinement was over. 

What was it that originally led you both collaborating together musically?

Chance. We ran into each other and became friends eight years ago. We both were in love with guitar music, bossa nova and classic rock songs. We started writing songs together and recording music on GarageBand directly through the computer’s microphone, releasing them every Sunday on SoundCloud. It all grew from there. 

‘The Garden’ draws influence from both the Renaissance period and peak-era MTV. What made you want to mix these ages together?

Armand had this idea to do a sword-and-sandal movie about the genesis when we were going over the lyrics of the song. A lot of paintings of Adam & Eve are from the Renaissance era, most of them are by the German painter Lucas Cranach L’Ancien. We scooted through his work and tried to reproduce some of his paintings with a shitty DV camera. As for the MTV influence, if you were born in the 90’s like us, it’s something you couldn’t escape. It’s the essence of music videos: shoot a band in a sexy way. 

What is it about the story of Adam and Eve that made you drawn to the idea?

It came more from the title of the song ‘The Garden’. Then we sat down with Victoria Lafaurie & Hector Albouker (our friends who directed the video), and thought he could be fun to re-write genesis book 3 a bit, and put the blame on Adam. After all, he’s the one who eats the apple!  

Why did you chose to work with La Ferme Records for this single?

It’s the first place we ever played music together with our live band. Back then it was only a barn with a run-down piano and no windows. Kids were crashing there for the summer, and we jammed with the local musicians playing blues and old RnB tunes. Our drummer, Pierre Marie Dornon, made it into a full operative recording studio within a couple of years. It’s amazing the amount of work he’s accomplished. The studio is all wooden, and very beautiful. There’s an old stove, you record facing a splendid garden, the first town in 15 kilometres away. It’s a dream.

The music video is incredibly DIY. Do you think you would’ve chosen to shoot a video in this style, had there not been reason to do so?

We just went with the flow. Everything was close because of the confinement. Production companies weren’t even budgeting films! The fun fact for our directors was to shoot something really aesthetic (scenes from old paintings, long de-zooms, backlight lighting) with some really shitty gear. It’s hard to tell what camera we used, it looks in between Super 8 our Super 16!

You mentioned earlier that you’ve been working on your third album, when can we expect to see that?

We don’t know for sure with the COVID situation… But we hope to release a full new album in 2021! We might release a few singles before that. 

Which artists have you been listening to recently?

A lot of Hank Williams, the lastest Angel Olsen song ‘A Whole New Mess ‘, the new Oracle Sisters EP and some tracks by Emitt Rhodes. 

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Feu! Chatterton dévoile le clip délicieusement cruel de "L'oiseau"

Deux mois à peine après la sortie de son deuxième magnifique album, Feu! Chatterton sort le clip de son nouveau single, « L’oiseau », à base de poupée vaudou

Feu! Chatterton est apparu au grand jour en 2015, lorsqu’il sort son premier album, « Ici le jour (a tout enseveli) ». Poétique et original, la recette prend mais divise. Sur scène, c’est une révélation, un coup d’éclat. Le groupe mené par le chanteur et song-writer de génie Arthur Teboul fait son petit bonhomme de chemin et rencontre un public enthousiaste dans des salles pleines.

Après « Souvenir », « L’ivresse », puis « Ginger », Feu! Chatterton lève enfin le voile sur un nouvel effort angélique : « L’oiseleur ». Une consécration et aussi, disons-le, une véritable confirmation. Le dernier single en date, « L’oiseau », porte à la fois le nom le plus proche de son album, mais en détient aussi le propos général. Aérien, beau, mélodique, il représente la quintessence de Feu! Chatterton, tout en simplicité.

Le clip, réalisé en 16mm par le duo Victoria Lafaurie & Armand Penicaut, est remarquable. Le quintet apparait, jouant sur fond blanc. Arthur, souriant, rêveur, effectue ses fameuses gesticulations, rythmées par la musique. « À présent l’orage dort sous la grève, tout gorgé d’eau le sable s’élève », entre les couplets et refrains, le chanteur se fait assaillir par une mystérieuse femme, qui possède une poupée vaudou à son effigie. Elle pique son corps au gré du chant : « rayons comme des aiguilles, une poupée vaudou ». L’amour rongeur et destructeur, coeur de la métaphore du morceau.

Feu! Chatterton est en concert événement au Zénith de Paris le 24 janvier 2019 et en tournée dans toute la France : https://feuchatterton.fnacspectacles.com

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Coeur croisé by Polo & Pan from the album Caravelle - Director: Pablo Maestres

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You and I by Papooz from the album Night Sketches - Directed by Victoria Lafaurie

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Theatrical State of Mind by Papooz from the album Night Sketches - Réalisateur: Pablo Padovani

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Canopée by Polo & Pan from the Canopée EP - Directed by Bleu Garou