“Music is thinking noise.” Victor Hugo, Fragments.         Hello, young Padawan     I hope your summer is going well, happy hour, shellfish, and seafood. Today, we’re going to talk about a phenomenon that’s gaining momentum among young people: slow tech. For those who haven’t yet heard this trendy new newspeak, it’s about preferring to use technological objects from the 90s and 2000s to…

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      “It bugs me when people try to analyze Jazz as an intellectual theorem. It’s not. It’s feeling.“ Bill Evans.           Hello, young Padawan     Following in the footsteps of the great Miles and the gigantic John, today we will focus on the intrepid Bill—Bill Evans, of course—another sacred jazz monster.   So, in my eagerness to talk to you about jazz, I’ve…

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              HELLo, young Padawan     You read the title. There you go. You know everything. See you next Thursday. Nah, I’m kidding. You know I love doing it to you.   I took advantage of an approaching Slash and Myles Kennedy* concert to make a quick trip to the Philharmonie de Paris. A friend told me about an exhibition on metal music, which…

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      «The only one I could have played with my whole life was Miles Davis. He taught me that music was a solitary journey into an unexplored wilderness. Sometimes, he said, we come across people with whom we share a part of the path, and then we set off alone again on the dunes. »*           Hello, young Padawan     When it comes…

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            Hello, young Padawan     Whether you’re on the road to vacation, settled in your hammock sipping your favorite infused water (or here, here, there, there, or there!), or at the office filing your archives, I have the music of your summer!     It’s been a while since I wanted to tell you about this album released two years ago, but I was…

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