Exit the groove !

mots&sons_TalkingHeadsÀ l’occasion du vernissage de l’exposition de l’illustratrice et plasticienne Lotie, un mix avec Jean-Luc Billing à La Boutique : certains parlent d’une battle, je préfère évoquer ping pong musical très amical. À une époque, à la télévision, une émission confrontait les œuvres des plus grands auteurs de BD, c’était du Tac au Tac, sur le principe du Cadavre Exquis. Là, le principe est simple : 1 titre diffusé en suggère un autre, et ainsi de suite… Reste à savoir ce qu’il faut emporter avec soi : je me suis limité à une quarantaine de disques, sur la base d’une couleur pop psychédélique et hybride, avec moult détours mutants et post-punk.

Je pourrai puiser au hasard dans les disques des groupes et artistes suivants :

Talking Heads, Pere Ubu, The Slits, The B-52’s, Tuxedomoon, Suicide, Liquid Liquid, The Fall, Billy Childish, The Raincoats, Honeymoon Killers (Tueurs de la Lune de Miel), The 13th Floor Elevator, David Bowie, The Residents, Snakefinger, The Undertones, Devo, The Stooges, The Stranglers, Taxi Girl, Magazine, Blondie, Alex Chilton, The Electric Prunes, Le Tigre, !!!, Kraftwerk, Big Youth, Can, Kevin Ayers, Of Montreal, The Olivia Tremor Control, Clinic…

Un seul mot d’ordre pour moi : Exit the groove !

Rendez-vous le 17 décembre à 18h30 à La Boutique
(10, rue Ste Hélène à Strasbourg).

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L’hommage de Robyn Hitchcock à Alex Chilton

L’hommage très émouvant de Robyn Hitchcock à Alex Chilton décédé le 17 mars dernier :

‘It’s difficult to accept that Alex Chilton is gone and won’t be back. He was always around, in his wry, low-key way, decorating the music world with his casual brilliance. From Norway to San Francisco to Milan he would be standing out there by the flight cases to greet you with his quizzical smile. He had something of the ex-patriot in him: even at home in the US, he seemed like a gentleman visiting from the past, most comfortable on the fringe of things. His refusal to stand centre-stage in Big Star was typical of this: he was too big a star to need to prove it, perhaps.

The fount of indie-rock stems from him as much as from Arthur Lee, The Velvet Underground, and Syd Barrett. His lack of interest in stardom and all the steps up to it was, and will be, a constant inspiration to many of us, as much as his sweet, dark, soulful music. Myriad musical roads met in Alex, and he diverted their course to his own artistic purposes with much grace and few illusions. (…)

He and I enjoyed many smoky moments over the years – it’s sad and perplexing to think that  there’ll be no more. Last time I saw him we were exhaling out of a window in Shepherd’s Bush after the triumphant Big Star gig there in 2008. I can’t believe he’s not here any more. Alex?… Alex?’

Robyn Hitchcock, March 24 2010

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