MERCREDI 30 AVRIL : JOSEPHINE FOSTER + ALLIGATOR @ LE SONIC

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JOSEPHINE FOSTER (Psychédélique Folk Héroïne, sur Fire Records, Locust Music ; Colorado, USA)

Accompagnée par VICTOR HERRERO à la guitare portugaise et guitare classique.

La bio en Français arrive... bientôt !

"Josephine Foster is an American singer-songwriter and musician from Colorado, United States. As an adolescent she worked as a funeral and wedding singer, and aspired to become an opera singer. After her studies she began to record demos of her own songs, resulting in the early recordings There Are Eyes Above (2000), an album of ukulele accompanied songs strongly influenced by Tin Pan Alley, and an album of children's songs, Little Life (2001).

For several years she worked as a singing teacher in Chicago, recording and performing with a variety of musical acts on the side including Born Heller, a project with free jazz-bassist Jason Ajemian, and The Children's Hour, a pop band formed with songwriter Andrew Bar. In 2004, joined by her occasional backing band The Supposed (Brian Goodman on guitar and Rusty Peterson on drums), she released an album of psychedelic rock called All the Leaves Are Gone which has drawn comparison to Patti Smith and Jefferson Airplane.

The songs on her first solo studio album Hazel Eyes, I Will Lead You (2005, Locust Music) evoke American folk and blues forms of the early 20th century. A Wolf in Sheep's Clothing, released in 2006, features unorthodox interpretations of 19th century German Lieder. This Coming Gladness, was released in 2008 and featured the contributions of Victor Herrero on electric guitar and percussion by Alex Neilson. In early 2009 she released an album of 27 Emily Dickinson song settings entitled Graphic as a Star with the British independent record label, Fire Records. Thereafter began her work in rural Spain, with her husband Victor Herrero collecting and arranging collections of folk songs, resulting in the recordings Anda Jaleo (a resetting of Garcia Lorca´s piano/voice transcriptions of Spanish songs), and Perlas (a selection of Spanish songs made by Foster herself) respectively.

In 2012, she returned to Colorado to record a solo album Blood Rushing which took inspiration from local themes from her childhood such as the western geography, native rhythms, and imagined mythology. The album was recorded in a Boulder yoga studio by the Andrija Tokic. It featured the ensemble of Victor Herrero on classical and electric guitars, Paz Lenchantin on bass, Heather Trost on violin, and Ben Trimble on pueblo skin drums.

Foster released a new full-length album, I'm A Dreamer on November 12, 2013."

De retour au Sonic après son fabuleux concert de... 2009 !

Websites : http://www.josephinefoster.info/ --- http://josephinefoster.bandcamp.com/

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ywwJyavjoY&feature=player_embedded

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NfdBZUFWHFs&feature=player_embedded

ALLIGATOR

Alligator est un duo basse/batterie composé de Lisa Duroux et Elizabeth Hargrett.

Lisa et Elizabeth se rencontrent à Atlanta en 2009, sur une tournée avec le groupe Favorite Cousin. Elles se retrouvent à Lyon quelques mois plus tard et montent Alligator en février 2011. Lisa joue également dans Réveille et Elizabeth dans le groupe hardcore Moms on Meth. En juin 2011 elles enregistrent leur première démo avec François Virot et sortent une cassette sur les labels Full Beans Tapes et Et mon cul c'est du tofu.

Et puis très vite les premiers concerts, elles jouent pour le festival Bandit dance avec des groupes dont elles partagent l'esthétique : Grass Widow et Lispector. Dès la rentrée de septembre elles font la première partie des Luyas et Sheik Anorak.

Leur musique est pop et directe.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yMl7a14122Y

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bmVehwn7IO8

Website : http://wearealligator.bandcamp.com/