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Québec City sits on the Saint Lawrence River in Canada's mostly French-speaking Québec province. Dating to 1608, it has a fortified colonial core, Vieux-Québec and Place Royale, with stone buildings and narrow streets. This area is the site of the towering Château Frontenac Hotel and imposing Citadelle of Québec. The Petit Champlain district’s cobblestone streets are lined with bistros and boutiques.
Québec City sits on the Saint Lawrence River in Canada's mostly French-speaking Québec province. Dating to 1608, it has a fortified colonial core, Vieux-Québec and Place Royale, with stone buildings and narrow streets. This area is the site of the towering Château Frontenac Hotel and imposing Citadelle of Québec. The Petit Champlain district’s cobblestone streets are lined with bistros and boutiques.
Québec City sits on the Saint Lawrence River in Canada's mostly French-speaking Québec province. Dating to 1608, it has a fortified colonial core, Vieux-Québec and Place Royale, with stone buildings and narrow streets. This area is the site of the towering Château Frontenac Hotel and imposing Citadelle of Québec. The Petit Champlain district’s cobblestone streets are lined with bistros and boutiques.
Québec City sits on the Saint Lawrence River in Canada's mostly French-speaking Québec province. Dating to 1608, it has a fortified colonial core, Vieux-Québec and Place Royale, with stone buildings and narrow streets. This area is the site of the towering Château Frontenac Hotel and imposing Citadelle of Québec. The Petit Champlain district’s cobblestone streets are lined with bistros and boutiques.
Québec City sits on the Saint Lawrence River in Canada's mostly French-speaking Québec province. Dating to 1608, it has a fortified colonial core, Vieux-Québec and Place Royale, with stone buildings and narrow streets. This area is the site of the towering Château Frontenac Hotel and imposing Citadelle of Québec. The Petit Champlain district’s cobblestone streets are lined with bistros and boutiques.
These photos were taken with my little point-and-shoot camera back then in 2005, but the architecture is too beautiful that I had to post a few.
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Mistico Arenal Hanging Bridges.
The suspension bridges of the Arenal Volcano National Park. I must be asking a very interesting and important question to our (frenchspeaking) guide Theo ;o))
Québec City sits on the Saint Lawrence River in Canada's mostly French-speaking Québec province. Dating to 1608, it has a fortified colonial core, Vieux-Québec and Place Royale, with stone buildings and narrow streets. This area is the site of the towering Château Frontenac Hotel and imposing Citadelle of Québec. The Petit Champlain district’s cobblestone streets are lined with bistros and boutiques.
Underground French Pop: The Sound of Freaksville 2006-2016.
www.freaksvillerec.com/album/underground-french-pop-the-s...
You may be aware of a popular English parlour game, where contestants are asked to name 10 famous Belgians. Eavesdrop on caravans up and down the country on any given wet weekend, and you might just hear the names Rene Magritte, Hergé, Papa Smurf and Hercule Poirot being recited. Have a go yourself, it’s harder than it looks.
It thus proves that Belgium, a sovereign state of 11 million people, steeped in history and rich with cultural caché (and home to the European Union lest we forget), is the most arcane and unfathomable land in the whole of Europe. So it makes us wonder: just how recondite must the underground scene of Europa’s most underground country be? The answer to that question is “very”, and the purest embodiment of this almost Marxist underground ethos of creativity, is the wonderful FREAKSVILLE record label, originating in the eastern municipality of Liège and now based in Brussels.
Freaksville takes DIY punk culture and sci-fi b-movie underground culture as its inspirations, and over the last decade, it has been a living testament to how cooperation on a shoestring can reap handsome benefits. Since 2006, this artistic cooperative has been exploring lushly-arranged French pop, retro synthpop, garage rock, sunshine pop, chanson, motorik, psych rock, noise pop, library and the avant garde, to name just some of the genres on offer. To celebrate this great abundance of creativity, a retrospective triple album featuring the very best of the last 10 years of the label is about to be released september 30th.
Underground French Pop: The Sound of Freaksville 2006-2016, features 40 beautifully produced songs in all. Every track featured on the compilation has been played on Europe’s most influential radio stations, from BBC 6 Music in the UK, to France’s beloved antenne musicale éclectique, FIP radio. Quite an achievement for a small independent label that was just getting started when the music industry was being administered its last rites a decade ago. Against all the odds, this group of plucky musicians from the Wallonian region of Seraing threw caution to the wind, and pressed ahead with the raison d’etre to produce the most scintillating mutant underground pop music going. And they succeeded.
Fast forward to 2016, and Freaksville Records is in the rudest of health. Led by Benjamin Schoos - aka Miam Monster Miam (a writer, composer, producer, singer, actor, illustrator, radio entrepreneur and svengali), Freaksville is the Belgian Brill Building, The Wrecking Crew and Gold Star Studios all rolled into one. In fact there’s something Spector-esque about guru-master Schoos (with a “personnage à la réputation excentrique” according to the Belgian press). “In 2006, social network websites such as MySpace helped us to sell music and find and promote gigs,” he says. “For a French-speaking music label, we never expected the artists on our roster to tour outside of the francosphere in countries like China, Vietnam, Japan, Spain, Great Britain, Germany and even Russia. So that’s been a good surprise!”
As well as Schoos himself, the stable of artists includes cult Brusselian Jacques Duvall, French chanteuse, actress and socialite Marie France, New Yorkers April March & Aquaserge, plus a host of other Belgian artists including The Loved Drones, Phantom, Mademoiselle 19 and Goldenboy. Add to that, the galaxy of cult collaborators over the past decade, that includes: Damo Suzuki, Laetitia Sadier, Mark Gardener, Bertrand Burgalat, Jean Jacques Perrey, Alain Chamfort, Telex, Chrissie Hynde, Emmanuelle Parrenin, Coralie Clément and Barbara Morgenstern. Schoos had even lined up a duet with Emmanuelle star Sylvia Kristel for his lauded album China Man vs Chinagirl, but sadly ill health intervened. The cast is a mightily impressive one, especially in the face of the adversity that almost all independents have suffered this last decade.
“A crisis is often a period which is interesting for art, even if it’s more difficult,” says Schoos.
The highlights on this triple album are almost too numerous to mention, though there’s everything a listener seeking great underground French pop will be looking for, from the swoonsome romance and Melody Nelson-style strings of ‘Je ne vois que vous’ by Schoos and Sadier, to the catchy, almost zoonotic bizarreness of ‘What’s Up Duck?’ by Jean-Jacques Perrey & David Chazam. And while you’re waiting for Underground French Pop: The Sound of Freaksville 2006-2016 to drop, how about coming up with some more famous Belgians? Let’s see, there’s Audrey Hepburn, Stromae, Jacques Brel, Adolphe Sax…
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released September 30, 2016
André Burton, Le Grand Balayeur (Franc'Amour, 1994)
www.discogs.com/Andr%C3%A9-Burton-Le-Grand-Balayeur/relea...
Portrait of Nadia, a stranger I met in Montreal. She was very surprised and slightly flattered that I wanted to make a portrit of her--she looked so perfect in these surroundings; how could I not?
We talked for a while afterwards, and the man next to me on the bench joined in as we discussed the reason for my trip to Canada (Vipassana meditation), and asked more questions about how to take pictures of strangers and the ethics of using those pictures.
This made me feel a little more at home while so far from home.
accomodations marrakech,riad dar najat for sun&fun&music&friends in the coolest ryad in town!
This riad is perfect to stay in as even though Marrakech is an amazing city to explore it is nice to have a break from the heat in the wonderful settings of the riad. The staff couldn't have been more helpful or friendly and you are advised about places to see and things to do and even taken to nice restaurants and the main square etc.
I have never stayed somewhere where me and my boyfriend felt so welcome, safe and relaxed
Dalton Telegramme : Sous la fourrure.
daltontelegramme.bandcamp.com/album/sous-la-fourrure
daltontelegramme.bandcamp.com/
Cover photography : Jason McGroarty.
[Bio FR]
Dans tous les saloons et les bars, c’est un événement : Dalton Telegramme claque son premier album sur le comptoir ! Intitulé "Sous la fourrure", l’effort tient la chanson au chaud et séquestre de jolis secrets sous le manteau.
Depuis 2010, Dalton Telegramme sévit en bord de Meuse, du côté de Liège. Si le projet prend corps dans la petite Belgique, son esprit appartient aux mythes et légendes des grands espaces. En marge de son obsession pour les bons mots d’Alain Bashung et Nino Ferrer, d’une fascination pour les textes ficelés par quelques dandys étincelants (Albin De la Simone, Bertrand Belin), le quatuor affectionne les guet-apens country-folk, les coups de flingues de Johnny Cash et les montures sonores attelées aux films des frères Coen (Fargo, O’Brother).
De fil en aiguille, la troupe se construit une identité et se façonne un son. C’est en respirant les effluves de la musique cajun et autres parfums venus du Québec que Dalton Telegramme flaire le bon coup. Armé d’une poignée de morceaux, la formation liégeoise s’en va planquer son butin sous la feuille d’érable.
La première tournée canadienne du groupe marque un point de non-retour. Un soir, à l’affût dans les rues de Montréal, les quatre Dalton trouvent refuge dans l’arrière salle d’un petit troquet. Là, estomaqués, ils assistent à un concert de Lisa LeBlanc. La prestation de la jeune femme chamboule les garçons. C’est la révélation, l’acte fondateur, la clef du moteur. L’esprit de Dalton Telegramme sera à jamais hanté par cette performance électrique, complètement euphorique.
De retour au pays, les musiciens remportent le concours DFDT (Du F. dans le Texte) et empochent Les Talents Acoustic TV5 Monde. La première victoire leur permet de mettre le pied à l’étrier en Belgique. Le second trophée leur offre des opportunités à l’étranger. Sollicité ici et ailleurs, le groupe passe à l’action et s’affaire en studio.
Mais avant d’oser se lancer sur la longueur d’un album, il publie deux E.P’s distingués (‘La Cavale’ et ‘La Planque’), des cartes de visite fantasmagoriques où le français se chante avec un Smith & Wesson dans le caleçon et un barillet chargé de munitions sans plomb : des cartouches pour rêver et faire feu de tous bois.
Dalton Telegramme conduit ainsi la chanson française à travers les plaines d’Amérique ou au fin fond du Canada. Là où les refrains se gravent à même le rock. Là où les coups de blues sont bons pour le moral. Derrière ses envies d’ailleurs, le quatuor étale un savoir-faire personnel, déballant ses sentiments au cœur de la pop, dans des chansons à fleur de peau.
Admirateurs secrets du parolier Jacques Duvall (Lio, Etienne Daho, Sparks), les musiciens décident de suivre l’homme à la trace, celle qui mène à sa planque : le label Freaksville Record (Benjamin Schoos, April March). Dans le vif du sujet, à fond dans la création, Dalton Telegramme dégaine ses meilleurs idées et enregistre douze titres en compagnie de Seb Martel (-M-, Tony Allen, Camille).
Le guitariste français endosse son costume de producteur et met le son du groupe en lumière. Disque chaleureux et spontané, "Sous la fourrure" voit Dalton Telegramme s’affirmer en toute authenticité.
Sincère, fidèle à son univers, le quatuor fige des fictions rebelles dans des chansons douces, parfois sauvages, toujours indomptables. Avec "Sous la fourrure", Dalton Telegramme a de quoi affronter le blizzard, réchauffer les cœurs et marquer les esprits.
[Credits]
Quentin Maquet : chant, guitares, trompettes et bugles
Olivier Cox : batterie, percussions, flûtes, choeurs
Rémi Rotsaert : guitare, banjo, mandoline, choeurs, lap steel guitar
Bernard Thoorens : contrebasse, choeurs, guimbarde
Seb Martel : réalisation
Lucas Chauvière : prises et mixage
Jérôme Baum : assistant prises
Benjamin Joubert : mastering
Jason McGroarty : photo couverture
Martin Maillleux : photos livret
Marie Cox : graphisme et réalisation artwork
Éditions :
Éditions RFI Talent
TV5MONDE
Les éditions de l’Octet
un Soir Autour du Monde
[Tracklist]
01. Le reflet 03:00
02. Je t'ai jeté 03:27
03. Notre route 02:59
04. Le surfeur mort 02:58
05. Tant pis pour hier 03:24
06. La confusion 03:31
07. Vos agrafes 03:25
08. Le coeur des japonaises 03:30
09. Évidemment 02:59
10. Sous la fourrure 03:51
11. Tequila 03:20
12. Dizzy 03:33
Québec City sits on the Saint Lawrence River in Canada's mostly French-speaking Québec province. Dating to 1608, it has a fortified colonial core, Vieux-Québec and Place Royale, with stone buildings and narrow streets. This area is the site of the towering Château Frontenac Hotel and imposing Citadelle of Québec. The Petit Champlain district’s cobblestone streets are lined with bistros and boutiques.
Québec City sits on the Saint Lawrence River in Canada's mostly French-speaking Québec province. Dating to 1608, it has a fortified colonial core, Vieux-Québec and Place Royale, with stone buildings and narrow streets. This area is the site of the towering Château Frontenac Hotel and imposing Citadelle of Québec. The Petit Champlain district’s cobblestone streets are lined with bistros and boutiques.
Québec City sits on the Saint Lawrence River in Canada's mostly French-speaking Québec province. Dating to 1608, it has a fortified colonial core, Vieux-Québec and Place Royale, with stone buildings and narrow streets. This area is the site of the towering Château Frontenac Hotel and imposing Citadelle of Québec. The Petit Champlain district’s cobblestone streets are lined with bistros and boutiques.
André Burton, Pas Le Temps De Ramasser Les Blessés (Pathé Marconi EMI, 1980)
www.discogs.com/Andr%C3%A9-Burton-Pas-Le-Temps-De-Ramasse...
Je Le Vois Encore
(André Burton)
Je le vois encore devant sa Belford
Dans un bar gare du Nord
Crier bien fort à qui veut l'entendre
J'veux plus vivre en France
Il a pris ses deux chaussures André
Son sac et son carnet
Avec une tablature de Dadi
Il a quitté le pays
Je reçois souvent de lui des lettres
À la Place Clichy
Devant les librairies de sexe
Je les ouvre et je les lis
Là-bas y'a des fruits jusque dans le ventre des femmes
Là-bas y'a des femmes qui font mûrir les nuits
Là-bas y'a des fleurs jusque dans le ventre des filles
Là-bas y'a des filles qui font fleurir les jours
Je le vois encore devant le tableau
Noir de l'embauche
Crier bien fort la droite ou la gauche
Ça m'travaille pas trop
Puis il parlait de grains de chicorée
De vanille couleur café
que l'on retrouve sous les tabliers
des serveuses des grands cafés
Je reçois souvent des bas nylons
Des mangues écrites au crayons
Avec le bonjour de Nora et moi
On t'attends là-bas
Là-bas y'a des fruits jusque dans le ventre des femmes
Là-bas y'a des femmes qui font mûrir les nuits
Là-bas y'a des fleurs jusque dans le ventre des filles
Là-bas y'a des filles qui font fleurir les jours
Là-bas y'a des fruits jusque dans le ventre des femmes
Là-bas y'a des femmes qui font mûrir les nuits
Là-bas y'a des fleurs jusque dans le ventre des filles
Là-bas y'a des filles qui font fleurir les jours
Vitor Hublot : 185 Millions De Francophones Et Moi, Et Moi, Et Moi... (Psoria Discs, 1986)
More on Discogs :
www.discogs.com/fr/Vitor-Hublot-185-Millions-De-Francopho...
benjaminschoos.bandcamp.com/album/night-music-love-songs
English:
Belgian-born Francophile Benjamin Schoos doesn't sleep much. Instead he spends his nights thumbing through novels in front of the black-and-white flicker of old science-fiction movies, swimming in the stillness and hush of a world outside momentarily calm. It was in this “nocturnal ambience”, as he calls it, that his latest selection of piano-led Parisian pop songs, each one like a slow kiss amid the madness of Belleville patisserie, came to him. 'Night Music, Love Songs', is Schoos' Third solo album, and the follow-up to 2014's remarkable 'Beau Futur' – an electronic fantasia of stories of stuntmen, astronauts and sun-soaked Italian villas. This latest charge into haunting synths and melodies that glisten and waver like street lights in the Seine strips back his sound of old to bare, affecting essentials – a lilting listen full of warm, misty-eyed romance that questions what it is to love someone. “It's a very particular feeling...” explains Schoos. “One that can move and shake you as much as it can make you suffer.”
“Both women and the night are muses of this album,” says the one-time Eurovision Song Contest representative for Belgium, but that's not where his inspiration ends. The glacial minimalism of Erik Satie influences parts of 'Night Songs, Love Music'; the pre- and post-war French chanson of Charles Trenet and Henri Salvador elsewhere. “Soft jazz and sunshine pop” were other factors in its making but one record in particular convinced him to forgo some of the wild-eyed stories of his previous records – 2012's 'China Man vs China Girl' was about a broken-down wrestler, based on an action figure his son owned – to confront the twin highs and lows of love. “I really love the Lewis album 'L’amour.' It convinced me you could make a record on this theme and evoke a dream in Paris.”
That dream takes Schoos – who memorably collaborated with Laetitia Sadier on the stirring 'Je Ne Vois Que Vous', earning him a place on the BBC 6 Music A-list – here through old Elka drum machine beats ('Un Fille En Or') and lush saxophone solos ('I Love You'). It takes him on 'Le Matire Du Monde' to a smoggy den of meanies (“I've always loved songs about bastards,” he says) and on 'Le Grand Paquebot Va Sombrer', translated in English to 'The Big Ship Is About To Sink', to a gorgeous moment of serious strangeness. “That track is about a guy who disguises himself as a woman to save his own skin on the Titanic, as women and children are the first people to be saved in case of emergency,” Schoos explains. “It starts as a transgender song and then we discover the fraud.”
Written and recorded in twilight hours at Schoos' studio – “a cabinet of curiosities,” he describes it, full of dusty string simulators and old echo and reverb tape recorders – ''Night Music, Love Songs'' has an impulsive heartbeat befitting a man who once did a journey in the footsteps of the famous Arthur Rimbaud, simply because he loved the Marseille man's surrealist poetry. “I began with improvisations. I start the rhythm box and add an improvised instrumental melody on the piano,” recalls the songwriter. “Once this basis is stable, I finally build my songs. I loved the minimalist sound my strange tools were producing. Finally, everything took shape once I added the lyrics – the last step in songwriting as I always favour melody.”
“It's an intimate album,” admits Schoos – maybe his most intimate yet. “It mixes delicate flavours of nostalgia with intense sentimental reverie... Nothing would please me more than people listening to this record while driving down a dark road around 2am. My previous albums dreamed about three-dimensional pop and constantly broke the tempo within the record. This one is more personal and belongs to the slow songs album tradition. I'm very proud of it. My songwriting and I have grown in this adventure.” It's an adventure, from the opening blooms of piano on its opening track, you'll quickly find yourself swept up in. “L'amour est la poesie des sens,” famously said the 19th century novelist Honoré de Balzac – “love is the poetry of the senses.” Let the stirring and seductive 'Night Music, Love Songs' ignite your senses this winter – you won't regret it.
French:
Benjamin Schoos. Il y a chez cet homme raisonné une folie qui s'ignore. Parlez-lui du nom de scène qui l’a fait connaître au grand public (Miam Monster Miam, 7 albums à son actif), lui répond par un changement d’identité et une carrière en solo. Dites-lui qu’il s’est assagi et le voilà qui lance un projet instrumental kraut-psych avec ses Loved Drones. Quant au virage chanson française, perceptible depuis China Man Vs China Girl (2012), il est amorcé alors que l’époque est à l’autotune, au rap Youtube et autres combats de rue où les chanteurs romantiques n’ont plus leur place. Il y a donc dans la discographie de ce Schoos de quoi désarçonner le plus aguerri des cavaliers. C’est comment qu’on schizo-freine ?
Parce que comme le disait le Cardinal de Retz « on ne sort de l’ambiguïté qu’à son détriment », Benjamin fonce tout Schoos et cultive l’amour des contraires là où tant d’autres sortent des disques contrariés. Fin d’un triptyque débuté en 2012 avec China Man Vs China Girl (2012) et Beau Futur (2014), Night Music, Love Songs possède au moins le mérite de la clarté : tout est dit dans le titre. Ecrit avec deux compagnons de solitude (Jacques Duvall et Dodi El Sherbini) et enregistré la nuit au studio Freaksville autour d’un piano, d’un orgue Hammond et d’une boite à rythme Elka Drummer One (celle utilisée par François de Roubaix), ce troisième essai en solo lève définitivement le voile sur les dessous chic du compositeur belge : musique nocturne et chansons d’amour en format cinémascope. Dans la veine des chansons lentes (on dit slow dans la langue de Joe Jackson) qui balisent depuis 50 ans l’histoire de la musique anglo-saxonne.
Sans masque, ni maquillage, les sept morceaux qui composent Night Music, Love Songs sonnent comme une réponse très premier degré au cynisme ambiant, et font de cet étrange objet du désir un parfait contrepoint, encore une fois, à l’époque. Gimmicks synthétiques évoquant la bande original d’Emmanuelle, arrangements dépouillés rappelant en filigrane le Sébastien Tellier sobre des débuts, costume de Frank Sinatra entonnant Un inconnu dans la nuit en franco-belge dans le texte ; on tient assurément un french crooner revisitant l’histoire de France, et dans laquelle quelques héros à voix perchées (Christophe, Polnareff ) ont su mieux que personne faire trembler la France d’avant les quotas.
« Sur le walk of fame, on est tous les mêmes » chante Schoos sur I love you, piste d’ouverture à écouter à l’horizontale, saxophone coincé dans l’entrejambe. Ce qui est évidemment vrai est aussi faux : personne ne ressemble à Benjamin Schoos. Sa nuit à lui, au moins, ne ment pas. On tient peut-être le disque de chevet d’une discographie à dormir debout.
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released January 29, 2016
"The grand gestures of Gainsbourg and Vannier loom large... these nocturnal romances still confirm French as the language of the impossibly glamorous."
Uncut 8/10
"Belgian-born Schoos embraces hushed reflection. Just the right time. Deep, dark, affecting"
MOJO ***
"His tracks paint the most vivid of pictures using words, once you’ve translated them of course, and sings with the same truth and valour about the romance in both life, love and death"
Gigsoup ****
"Prolifique et romantique, le songwriter belge publie un nouvel album bizarroîde"
Les Inrockuptibles ****
"Ambiance Christophienne, fleur à la boutonnière, yeux faits, fauteuils en velours et plus personne dans le salon du bateau fantôme". Technikart ****
"..en sept titres majestueux, on se rend à l'évidence: avec son piano blanc, sa boite à rythmes et ses vieilles machines, il parvient à émouvoir, d'abord, puis à instaurer une ambiance racée sans discontinuer, verbe agile à l'appui, ensuite."
Muzzart
"Benjamin Schoos s’est littéralement métamorphosé. En artiste accompli, en musicien sobre, toujours exigeant. En grand ordonnateur d’une musique adulte, sérieuse, pénétrante mais encore rafraîchissante. Comme un dernier cocktail sur le pont du navire avant qu’il ne tutoie je ne sais quel glacier imminent. Qu’il ne disparaisse et fasse place à un autre chef-d’œuvre. Car celui-là en est un."
Shebam Blog Pop Wizz
"Principalement synthétiques, ces chansons romantiques et vespérales sont nées de l'amour du Wallon pour les claviers hors d'âge et les boîtes à rythmes vintage, et enrichies de quelques instruments discrets (flûte, orgue Hammond, violoncelle, bugle, trompette."
Magic rpm ****
"C’est son côté crooner sérieux et authentique que laisse parler ici Benjamin qui, sans difficulté, parvient à nous émouvoir."
Le Mad (Le Soir)
"En s’affranchissant de guitares, basses et batteries parfois un peu poussives, il laisse ainsi se sublimer d’elles-mêmes quelques magnifiques lignes de piano, plusieurs envolées de cordes et autres échappées belles de cuivres. C’est doux. Parfois un peu trouble. Mais c’est beau. Très beau, même."
Idoles Mag
"37 Minuten großes Nacht-Kino."
Sound and Image
"...Ces love songs crépusculaires et langoureuses, réunies dans un album bouleversant et sublime de bout en bout. De la très haute couture, Monsieur Schoos !"
Benzine Mag
"Un album court mais intense, aux confins de l’intimité et capable de nous faire passer par toutes les couleurs. Sept titres pour au moins mille émotions."
Branchesculture
"...Un disque de Crooning nocturne mise en mots par Jacques Duvall. Tender is The Night"
Focus Vif
"Un album mélodieux aux nuances délicates orchestrées de main de maître (du monde)."
La magicbox
"Il nous offre un album de Dandy du crépuscule au romantisme à la fois plastique et éthéré."
Metro
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Photography : Pascal Schyns.
Sleeve design : Scalp.
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Catalog number : FRVM74
Catalog number CD : FRVR55
Catalog number Vinyl LP : FRVR55
℗ Freaksville Publishing 2015
© Freaksville Publishing 2016
Québec City sits on the Saint Lawrence River in Canada's mostly French-speaking Québec province. Dating to 1608, it has a fortified colonial core, Vieux-Québec and Place Royale, with stone buildings and narrow streets. This area is the site of the towering Château Frontenac Hotel and imposing Citadelle of Québec. The Petit Champlain district’s cobblestone streets are lined with bistros and boutiques.
accomodations marrakech,riad dar najat for sun&fun&music&friends in the coolest ryad in town!
I would recommend this place to anyone who like to come back to their hostel for a relaxing and causy evening after a long and crazy day in Marrakech.
This Riad was everything I expected, even more!
- Great roof top terrasse with lots of sunny / shady spots
- Very friendly staff to have a drink with when you feel like it. We had very interesting and funny conversations. Otherwise, very discret (like when I had to work for a conference).
- Good breakfast and dinner
- Nice ambiance and music
- They give great tips, walk you to where you have to go when you need (they make sure you don't get lost), and they also have a driver, Abdul, that drives very carefully. :)
Québec City sits on the Saint Lawrence River in Canada's mostly French-speaking Québec province. Dating to 1608, it has a fortified colonial core, Vieux-Québec and Place Royale, with stone buildings and narrow streets. This area is the site of the towering Château Frontenac Hotel and imposing Citadelle of Québec. The Petit Champlain district’s cobblestone streets are lined with bistros and boutiques.
This was the first place we stayed at in Morocco and it was fantastic! The sights, sounds, smells and other worldness of (the) Marrakech (medina) can be quite overwhelming at first so this was a great place to come home to. Olivier, the owner, was very helpful in giving us tips, arranging anything we needed (including the airport transfer and a spectacular tour into the atlas mountains), and spoke great english which definitely comes in handy when your french isnt so great. The place itself was beautiful, tranquil, clean and had a perfect roof terrace with a lounge and plungepool to cool off in with a beer after a sweltering day. The rooms have been decorated beautifully and lovingly, have a/c, are quiet (unless the lounge music is switched on upstairs, which could be slightly annoying to some when too loud. they will switch it off at request though) and the beds and shower are good. Do keep in mind that it's not uncommon for riads to have doors without locks on the rooms. There wasnt a moment we felt unsafe though as al the staff seemed very trustworthy (and very very friendly). The breakfast was served on the roof terrace every morning and was a rich mixture of pastries, local pancakes, baguette, fried eggs and fruits. The riad serves dinner too which we didnt make use of but appearantly was very good.
The location of the Dar Najat is ideal. It's in a nice and quiet part of the old medina, about a 5 minute walk to the Djemaa el Fna (which a staffmember showed us on the first day). Also, its around the corner of a little square to which cars can get. This comes in handy when arriving/leaving with your luggage and the same for tours by car/4x4 or arranging a taxi.
All said and done, and in comparison to other riads we stayed in during our two week trip, this was a definate highlight which I would very much recommend.
"Fantastic relaxed place from which to discover Marrakech!”
Riad Dar Najat
This was the first place we stayed at in Morocco and it was fantastic! The sights, sounds, smells and other worldness of (the) Marrakech (medina) can be quite overwhelming at first so this was a great place to come home to. Olivier, the owner, was very helpful in giving us tips, arranging anything we needed (including the airport transfer and a spectacular tour into the atlas mountains), and spoke great english which definitely comes in handy when your french isnt so great. The place itself was beautiful, tranquil, clean and had a perfect roof terrace with a lounge and plungepool to cool off in with a beer after a sweltering day. The rooms have been decorated beautifully and lovingly, have a/c, are quiet (unless the lounge music is switched on upstairs, which could be slightly annoying to some when too loud. they will switch it off at request though) and the beds and shower are good. Do keep in mind that it's not uncommon for riads to have doors without locks on the rooms. There wasnt a moment we felt unsafe though as al the staff seemed very trustworthy (and very very friendly). The breakfast was served on the roof terrace every morning and was a rich mixture of pastries, local pancakes, baguette, fried eggs and fruits. The riad serves dinner too which we didnt make use of but appearantly was very good.
The location of the Dar Najat is ideal. It's in a nice and quiet part of the old medina, about a 5 minute walk to the Djemaa el Fna (which a staffmember showed us on the first day). Also, its around the corner of a little square to which cars can get. This comes in handy when arriving/leaving with your luggage and the same for tours by car/4x4 or arranging a taxi.
All said and done, and in comparison to other riads we stayed in during our two week trip, this was a definate highlight which I would very much recommend.
Québec City sits on the Saint Lawrence River in Canada's mostly French-speaking Québec province. Dating to 1608, it has a fortified colonial core, Vieux-Québec and Place Royale, with stone buildings and narrow streets. This area is the site of the towering Château Frontenac Hotel and imposing Citadelle of Québec. The Petit Champlain district’s cobblestone streets are lined with bistros and boutiques.
Québec City sits on the Saint Lawrence River in Canada's mostly French-speaking Québec province. Dating to 1608, it has a fortified colonial core, Vieux-Québec and Place Royale, with stone buildings and narrow streets. This area is the site of the towering Château Frontenac Hotel and imposing Citadelle of Québec. The Petit Champlain district’s cobblestone streets are lined with bistros and boutiques.