V4YS Concert Review - Gilles Peterson's Worldwide Festival, Sète, France - July2012

Back from sunny Sète with the head full of great sounds heard during the seventh edition of Gilles Peterson's Worldwide Festival ! 

Matthew Halsall Trio

For those not familiar with this event, it's a unique opportunity to see  a world-class line-up of artists during a 5-day window, ranging from the jazz world to the most futuristic electro sounds. 
A kind of condensed version of the outstanding Worldwide Radio Show Gilles has been hosting for years on the BBC airwaves...with the extra help of the sunshine, the already hot Mediterranean sea as well as the splendid former-fort-turned-theater of the lovely city of Sète !

Robert Glasper Experiment, Portico Quartet, Matthew Halsall Trio, Tinariwen, Little Dragon, Electric Wire Hustle, Gang Colours, as well as a wide range of outstanding DJs like Four Tet, Lefto or Julio Bashmore to name just a few, the program was once again phenomenal and allowed the cosmopolitan audience to travel through a myriad of musical atmospheres.

Portico Quartet

As far as I'm concerned I'm still under the bewitching influence of the immensely creative DJ Set from Four Tet, the joyful and energetic gig from Little Dragon and the sweetness and spirituality of Matthew Halsall's trumpet.






Well you probably got it, this festival is an essential artistic experience opening the minds, warming the hearts, in a word it should almost be mandatory !

Electric Wire Hustle

Below a wonderful video from my friend Régis highlighting the spirit and atmosphere of the festival, then a few musical extracts I took from the likes of Gang Colours, Matthew Halsall, Tinariwen and Eletric Wire Hustle. Sorry for the unstable nature of the image, I hope it will nevertheless be enough to convince you to come to the 2013 edition !

V4YS EP Review - Gang Colours - In Your Gut Like A Knife Ep (Brownswood Recordings)

After having listened to some promessing extracts a while ago, I was so eagerly waiting the release of Southampton-based Gang Colours (aka Will Ozanne)'s first EP that I actually missed it when it finally came out in early June on the always excellent Brownswood Recordings label.
Anyway, better late than never to mention this brilliant EP gathering 4 tracks symbolic of the creativity of the current Uk electro scene.
"In Your Gut Like A Knife" has house, dubstep and abstract beats answering each other in a subtle deluge of unexpected sounds and samples. In the wake of artists like Mount Kimbie, Gold Panda, or even Four Tet, Gang Colours contributes another brick to a Uk bass-culture building that keeps adding new storeys. The sky is the limit they say. Are they so sure?
Below a quick sampler of the EP :



Après avoir entendu de ci de là ces derniers mois quelques bribes de titres du jeune producteur anglais de Southampton Gang Colours (aka Will Ozanne), j'attendais impatiemment son premier maxi. Tellement impatiemment que j'ai loupé en début de mois sa sortie sur le toujours excellent label Brownswood Recordings. 
Quoi qu'il en soit mieux vaut tard que jamais pour souligner la qualité de "In Your Gut Like A Knife" qui symbolise à merveille la créativité sans borne de l'actuelle scène electro britannique. Dialogue déroutant entre rythmes house, dubstep ou abstract beats, ce maxi essaime aussi une multitude de sonorités et de samples autant dépaysant qu'inattendus. 
Dans le sillage d'artistes comme Mount Kimbie, Gold Panda voir Four Tet, Gang Colours apporte à son tour une jolie pierre à un édifice de la "Uk bass-culture" qui ne cesse de grandir! 
Ci-dessus un sampler du maxi.