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First Aid Kit

Nothing like a piece of haddock and chips soaked in vinegar. Salt and Battery, Greenwich Avenue.

Ira Cohen from 5 to 7

Ira Cohen’s room opens one of the windows to the iconographic sign of the Chelsea Hotel.

Ira Cohen from 5 to 7

The legend is residing at the Chelsea Hotel this month. Jocelyn and KiNo as the usual pow-boom duo meeting the illustrious inventor of psychedelic film the agent Ira Cohen. Ira Baba is on temporary displacement after the bombing of his apartment in Upper West Side due an expensive bedbug infestation. Aptly, there is a benefit scheduled [...]

Studio Visit

Arnaud Fleurent-Didier and Dorothée de Koon came by Ears. We made merry music, played a bunch of songs of our own, songs we grew up with.

France Culture

Arnaud Fleurent-Didier live at the French cultural embassy, in Brooklyn. This was 2/3 of their New York appearances.

New Friends

A breath of fresh air. Stephane Fleurent-Didier, Dorothée de Koon, KiNo and Arnaud Fleurent-Didier before their performance at Zebulon. Grand street waterfront, Brooklyn.

Arnaud Fleurent Didier & co.

Last week at some point Joce played me a song called French Culture by a chap whom he had just booked at Zebulon. Immediately, I felt kinship towards the music and most definitely to the lyrics, where this chap is coming from. It turns out, he is the quintessential French singer-songwriter with a composite sound sprouting from [...]

New York Night

Rooftop view from the Standard Hotel. A crowd gathered. Light-show took place on the facade of the hotel. The breeze was impeccable.

Shooting Star

Agent S came out of the blue and left me here with some good ideas as usual.  The proto-surrealist.

This is not a Meadow

The midnight sun that shines upon Bryant Park.

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