Interview: Groundation, Nneka, General Elektriks, Black Seeds talk about the live moment "climax"

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Quatre groupes de la "Groove & Beat Party" de la grande scène du Printemps de Bourges nous parlent du moment pendant un concert ou artistes + fans = union totale. Différents points de vue de la part d'artistes très différents entre eux.

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General Elektriks

General Elektriks is the brainchild of Hervé RV Salters. A French national and a keen vintage keyboard player, Salters was playing keys for his bands and for various artists in Paris (Femi Kuti, M, DJ Mehdi etc ) before he moved to San Francisco in 1999.

He sarted working on funk collages as he was moving to the US, using his favorite keyboards, a computer and a mic. GE became a musical journal that followed RV through his move to Seattle, then back to the Bay Area, in Berkeley, where he currently resides. There, he hooked up with the Quannum crew (Blackalicious, Lyrics Born, DJ Shadow ) and started sessioning for them. He invited Quannum s own Lateef The Truthspeaker and Chief Xcel on a few tracks, then completed the 1st GE album, Cliquety Kliqk. Hailed by URB as Ennio Morricone for the 21st century, the album is a far out mix of vintage funk, hip hop beats, noir riffs, cinematic arrangements, pop melodies and digital twinkle.

After touring behind the album, Salters joined Blackalicious in the studio to work on The Craft and toured with them for over a year. Concurrently, he formed San Francisco trio Honeycut with singer Bart Davenport and drummer/programmer Tony Sevener. Quannum Projects released their critically acclaimed 1st album, The Day I Turned To Glass, in 2006. As he was touring with Honeycut and laying keys down for more artists (Lifesavas, Curumin,, Jel, The Mighty Underdogs, etc ), Salters started working on a second GE effort. Good city for dreamers was completed in the fall of 2008. On 'Good City,' RV whips up his own take on psychedelia, one where future soul, oldschool pop, sampling, indie rock, hip hop and free jazz make sparkles as they collide. In doing so, the French expatriate joins the growing ranks of artists who are citizens of the world, nomads who create a sonic landscape that feeds as much on their origins as it does on their travels.

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Printemps de Bourges

Le Printemps de Bourges est un festival de musique en France où les artistes les plus connus côtoient des jeunes talents musicaux. Depuis 1977, il se déroule chaque mois d'avril à Bourges (Cher).Il a été créé par Daniel Colling, un agent de spectacle, Alain Meilland, chanteur et comédien, et Maurice Frot, ancien collaborateur de Léo Ferré. Ce festival peinera à s'imposer aux Berruyers (habitants de Bourges), qui n'en verront l'intérêt et l'animation qu'au fil des années. Ainsi à chaque Printemps, des milliers de spectateurs viennent dans les salles et sous les chapiteaux berruyers. 80 spectacles, 200 artistes dans une douzaine de lieux sur une semaine proposent les genres musicaux les plus divers. Le Printemps s'enorgueillit de posséder aussi un festival off, véritable festival bis proposant chaque année des centaines d'artistes de rue. Bourges, c'est aussi un tremplin pour les jeunes artistes, et un ensemble d'évènements culturels de grand importance : cinéma, littérature, rencontres en tout genre.

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