Author: Astrakan Project
An old memory from our *first* gig ever in London!
Look what just popped up! A souvenir from our first London gig during our first UK tour, almost a year ago… feels like ages and also feels like yesterday! Our big smile has probably to do with the awesome people we had met during that first tour that are now part of our lives – and also with the awesome gig we had performed in Ipswich the previous days.
I don’t know if any of you can tell the huge sound change on stage – we really can! It’s good to look back and feel we’ve moved forward that much. And also to imagine where we can be in maybe a year ahead? 😉
§Simone
A soryteller, breton musicians, bagpipe players, the devil…
It’ a short summary of what you can expect if you show up in Northampton next Thursday for our next gig there… and it inspired me a little teaser…
Gig: Thursday the 12th of March 2015
Event page: http://www.facebook.com/events/142248…
A magical evening with storyteller Richard York (find out more here: http://www.taleteller.co.uk/)
Concert details:
Phipps Northampton Brewery Company
54 Kingswell Street, NN1 1PR Northampton
Tickets: £5 from the NN cafe / Popped Albion Brewery Bar on online at http://www.wegottickets.com/event/311815
Doors open at 8pm
If you have friends around there, please, let them know!
§ Simone
Four Stars awarded by Songlines magazine!
We got again 4 stars for our “B” album in Songlines current issue, again! I guess… we can celebrate, right? 
Some acoustic music?
1932 is one of our favorite songs to play live on radio shows, and not only because it’s shorter than the usual 5 minutes long songs we tend to have! It’s cool it got video recorded last Sunday in Paris…
La Jotinette… again!
Last wee-end we were in Luzy, in the middle of the Morvan area (France), famous for “bourée” dances, among which…. the now very famous tune called “La Jotinette”, for which we had made a version+video that won the competition. We were really proud, but above all really happy to go there and meet many awesome musicians.
To watch again our version …
Thank you all again for your support and for sharing and voting for our version – we’ll meet all the members from the band La Contrebande from which we were only a couple of votes ahead to share our price – and probably play some music too!
Soon playing at… the Wolf’ Hole?
Indeed, we’ll play in a place called Le Trou Au Loup, a tiny small place with nice ambiance, wine and food… and well, I felt inspired by the place name!
The music lyrics are traditional (again!), the meaning is unclear, researchers think they might relate to songs used by druids during their training to remember about long lists of items (like plants, trees, places, magical days…). It’s only a wee piece of the song, we’d like to bring together the full song, so far… it’s been a challenge!
§ Simone
Some work in progress…
No comment at the moment – unless it would somehow sound familiar? 😉
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