Pone Live
Who better to open the party of the 70th edition of the Festival d'Avignon that Pone, the emblematic DJ of an alternative electro scene that is at once powerful, curious, inventive, and popular? A founding member of Birdy Nam Nam, one of the most fascinating bands of the past few years, both on record and live, Pone combines an intelligence for sound montages that create very specific universes with an undeniable sense of performance. For his long-awaited return to the stage, he will be accompanied by Pierre Belleville on the drums and Manu Trouvé on the keyboards and machines. Pone will also follow the concert by General Elektriks with a DJ set to end the night.
Thomas Parent, known as DJ Pone, is a protean artist who loves experimenting. He has worked as a DJ with rappers Svinkels, Triptik, or Casseurs Flowters, while making a name for himself in the world of electro with his band Birdy Nam Nam, whose album Manual For Successful Rioting received a Victoire de la Musique. His powerful live shows have drawn ever more enthusiastic fans throughout the world. DJ Pone started a solo career with Erratic Impulse (Ed Banger) while continuing his many collaborations, notably within SARH, with the leader of Stuck In The Sound.
General Elektriks
Legwork and mind games, from the cortex to the arch of the foot, from the earth to the moon, General Elektriks, graceful as a cat and smart as a fox, promises us under the starry sky of Avignon a pure crescendo of pleasure, a great moment of musical intranquillity; funk, electro, soul, pop, disco, a struggle between man and machine, a mix of programming and performance. Hybrid and off the wall, the live version of the excellent To Be A Stranger will be an ode to a voluntary exodus, all silky brass and martial beats, smooth voices and bouncy rhythms. What better way to escape gravity?
Behind the medals of General Elektriks stands Hervé Salters, an alchemist of sound who challenges the theories of musical relativity while working crowds up, in a paradox this electric storyteller revels in. After working in the 1990s with artists like Mathieu Chedid or Femi Kuti, he left France for San Francisco, then Berlin. General Elektriks turned his geographic and musical wanderings into real explorations. Unwilling to keep ploughing the same furrow, he would rather focus on his protean research, with groove and a clavinet as his only compass. His new album, To Be A Stranger, introduces his unique take on electro-soul and his nuanced world in which it is a pleasure to get lost dancing.
Distribution
Pone Live
With Thomas Parent (turn tables, machines), Pierre Belleville (drums) et Manu Trouvé (keyboards, machines)
General Elektriks
Avec Hervé Salters (voice, keyboards), Jessie Chaton (bass), Jordan Dalrymple (MPC, drums), Norbert Lucarain (vibraphone), Eric Starczan (guitar)
Production
Co-realization Festival d'Avignon, Résonance festival
With the support of Sacem
Pone, first solo album to be released in autumn.
General Elektriks, To Be A Stranger (Wagram Music).
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- for 4/40 holders : the 5th ticket for 10€
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- under 26 : 4 tickets for 40€
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