victor jara

In Chile, the magnificent songs of the musician and poet Victor Jara pierce the silence of the curfew. 46 years after his death, Victor Jara continues to inspire the daily life of Chileans. His support for President Salvador Allende was fatal to him. On 11 September 1973, the very day of Augusto Pinochet’s coup, he was arrested by the junta before being tortured and killed by soldiers. “My God ! It’s like killing a nightingale “, reportedly denounced the poet Pablo Neruda after this assassination, before being also a victim of this bloody period of the dictatorship. Peinture 2019 / We can be heroes  Read More →

paris paris playlist by philippe cohen solal

Listen to an exclusive Parisian music selection by Philippe Cohen Solal (Gotan Project) Hand picked specially for the release of his latest EP A Paris – Mi Alma te ama, Philippe Cohen Solal of Gotan Project dug into what makes Paris vibrant to his ears. Old french popular songs to jazz standard and new hip hop trap songs by the new generation including Benjamin Biolay, Taxi Girl, Jacques Dutronc, Astor Piazzolla, Yael Naim, Gael Faye, Serge Gainsbourg, Brigitte Bardot and many other. Whether you are a fresh tourist planning to visit Paris or a long time parisien, you’ll find gems to make you fall inRead More →

Excerpt from the encounter published by Jacques Denis in Libération: It all starts in the cosmopolitan 10th arrondissement, on the rue du Faubourg-Saint-Denis side. It was there that the Gotan Project was born in 1998 and that the Acid Arab entity was formalized, about fifteen years later. DJ and producer Philippe Cohen Solal remembers that the first was almost a coincidence. “It was just an essay with Argentinian guitarist Eduardo Makaroff. Success is an accident. There was no plan, zero strategy. ” Guido Minisky, who was his neighborhood neighbor at the time, sharing the same tables (for lunch, and sometimes to mix), could take overRead More →