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L'inauguration du CENT QUATRE

The 104, or Cent Quatre, is one of Paris' major cultural projects promoting art and creativity. Located in the 19th arrondissement, this new establishment will offer residencies, exhibitions, and festivals as well as a restaurant and several shops.

Their grand opening will be taking place this Saturday, October 11th, 2008.

For the occasion, this new dynamic arts center will introduce a full day of artwork coming from all angles: architecture and visual art with Berger & Berger's "Une île paradisiaque est un spectacle artificiel," landscape design by Atelier Le Balto, video installations by Alain Bernardini and Melik Ohanian... and more.

The night will continue on with trip-hop, pop décalée, and electro DJs Tricky, Epplay/Takahashi, and FNNNN.

Don't miss out on the fun - all of Paris will be there, or at least the cool people.

Une Douche ou Un Bain?

Unsure of whether I was going to get clean or dirty on the dance floor, I slipped into Les Bains Douches club on Saturday night.

A venue with a history -- Bains Douches was originally a municipal bathhouse turned bar, notably a home for Parisian new wave.

Andy Warhol would come to see the Dead Kennedys and Psychedelic Furs perform. Not to mention, Joy Division recorded an album of the same name, right here in 1979.

At the present day, Bains Douches has taken on a sound system (the club is the first to be equipped with Funktion-one, the same sound and installation concept you'd find at the Space in Ibiza).

Venue Review: La Maroquinerie

Parisnormale's Jayson Harsin writing for I V Y paris

From the vantage point of Pere Lachaise in the 20th, in the closing pages of Balzac’s delicious Pere Goriot, the hero Rastignac looks down into the mudpit of Paris, seething with moneylust threatening to devour the grand monuments and traditions of an overgrown bourg. Refusing to let it tame him, he vows to don his galoshes and wrestle it to submission.

True to its past, the 20th (along with the 18th and 19th, and a few holdouts in the 11th) is now the arrondissement that peers down on the rest of the city and resists its formidable pull toward disneyesque tourism and suffocating plutocracy, the basin below where many of the once wild jazz caves and cabarets are now full of plump track-suited Americans perusing their Lonely Planet’s and Let’s Go’s.

It’s in the 20th/11th neighborhoods that one still finds a host of little no-name jazz and torch singer joints, squeezed into the communards’ corners around the metro stations of Gambetta, Pyrenees, Menilmontant and Alexandre Dumas. These are the same scruffy sidewalks where Edith Piaf was born on a policeman’s cape and commenced her warbling for a few paltry sous, and from whose hills Guy Debord tumbled down to beller from the bowels of The Spectacle. It is also where one finds the most thriving indie rock, pop, folk, electro clubs in the City of Light: Le Nouveau Casino, La Fleche D’Or, La Feline, Le Studio de L’hermitage, the Bellevilloise—and La Maroquinerie.

The Social Club

The Social Club, formerly the Triptyque, formerly L'Aurore printing house, is open for business and as I write Laurent Garnier is spinning away there. The line up for the next few weeks looks promising, see the myspace, no website yet.

LE SOCIAL CLUB
142 rue Montmartre
Paris 75002
Tel +33 (0)1 40 28 05 55

The Centre Musical Fleury-Goutte d’Or-Barbara

Paris' amazing cultural life takes a new twist, it's a full time job keeping up with it all! 

Under construction since September 2007, the Centre musical Fleury-Goutte d’Or-Barbara aims to accompany artists, and schedule, coordinate and broadcast slam, rock, pop, reggae, rap, funk, R&B, gospel, electronic music, popular French music and blues.  With a surface area of 1,500 m2, the centre boasts a recording studio, a concert hall and seven rehearsal studios.

It welcomes young musicians, both amateurs and rising talents, professional musicians, local associations, the locals of the Goutte d’Or quarter and the 18th arrondissement, and everywhere else.

It’s a lively place, open to the diversity of musical cultures; a place for creating music and giving visibility to artists and their projects. The centre offers an eclectic programme at affordable prices so that everyone can go along to the performances.

As its name suggests the centre pays tribute to the famous singer Barbara but it does seem a rather incongruous pairing...but there you go.

CENTRE MUSICAL FLEURY-GOUTTE D’OR-BARBARA
1 rue Fleury
75018 Paris

Studio De L'Ermitage

A club-like setting with a bar in the back, an open floor, and some cafe tables scattered about a wrap around balcony. Studio de L'ermitage vibrates with an eclectic sound and crowd.

Located in the 20th arrondissment of Paris (metro Jourdain), this venue is home to many concerts for experimental music artists. The line-up can range from an Enya-like musician to a big salsa bandstand.
The venue additionally offers tango lessons on a weekly basis.

This month's concerts range from the experimental jazz compositions of Surnatural, to the Caribbean salsa rhythms of Grupo Mango. Grab your fedora hat or a pair of dance kicks, it's your choice any night of the week.

Studio de L'ermitage
8 rue de l'ermitage
Paris
tel: 01 44 62 02 86
Metro: menilmontant/jourdain

Studio Le Regard du Cygne

Studio Le Regard du Cygne encourages research, experimentation, creation and dialogue between amateurs and professionals.  Specifically created for a community of dancers and choreographers in the 1980's by Amy Swanson and Fabrice Dugied, the first programme began as a series of workshops for contemporary dance.  Later collaborations included those with Philippe Coutelen, musician and founder of Carnegie'Small.

Cartoucherie de Vincennes & Théâtre du Soleil

Sometimes we want to stray from the norms of theatre, to find theatre that takes place in a world that we are not familiar with, a world that is abstract.

The Théâtre du Soleil is part of the larger group, La Cartoucherie, a complex of five theaters (Théâtre du Soleil, Théâtre de l'Aquarium, Théâtre de la Tempête, Théâtre de l'Epée de Bois, and the Théâtre du Chaudron) in a former munitions factory.  The resident director is the revered Ariane Mnouchkine.

 

Le Caveau des Oubliettes

Pamela Price writing for I V Y Paris

When I first moved to Paris my roommate saw me sitting on the couch, wondering what to do on my Thursday night. "You like jazz?" he asked, and handed me a piece of paper with an address on it. I grabbed my jacket and took the 4 line to Fontaine St. Michel. When I reached my destination I found myself in a smoky bar outside the Latin Quarter. I bought a beer and walked to the back, down a flight of stairs, which took me to a small dungeon like music venue. The walls were covered in cobblestone, which would explain the fact that the space was once a jail. I sat amongst the cigarettes, glasses of beer, old fashioned wooden benches, and the crowd of twenty-somethings.

A man and several other musicians took the small stage and began jamming out. After a few songs and renditions of some old-school Michael Jackson, I was sure that I had seen one of the best performances of my life. Not to mention the 7 minute drum solo that shook my body and soul, no lies. I looked around me and everyone was swaying from side to side, or tapping their feet to the rythm.

Now this venue, Caveau des Oubliettes, is where I take all of my first dates. Perhaps I use it as a sign; if they don't like the jazz, then I don't like them.

Be sure to arrive before 10:30 p.m. to get a good seat in the small dungeon. Every night there is a different genre of music, from salsa to blues. Take a date or sway on your own, either way it's the ultimate musical experience.

Caveau des Oubliettes
52, rue Galande
75005

La Traversée: Introducing 104

The 104, or Cent Quatre, is one of Paris' major cultural projects promoting art and creativity. Located in the 19th arrondissement, this new establishment will offer residencies, exhibitions, and festivals as well as a restaurant and several shops.

The 104 will be the place to express yourself in visual arts, music, dance, theatre, video, fashion, design, cinema and literature starting from 2008, and will be open everyday from 7am to 10pm.

At the end of the month, the construction site will be opening their doors to the public, giving a chance to discover its architecture and 28 000 square meters dedicated to future artwork.