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- Europe’s top music festivals!
- Emilie Simon – Gig Reviews – Music – Entertainment – smh.com.au
- Delhi: From Madonna to Mika…
Europe’s top music festivals!
iAfrica.com – Jun 25, 2007
Founded in 1967 many of the greats have performed on the festival’s various stages. Misleadingly called a jazz festival Montreux also offers reggae rock and electronic music often at high prices though. This year’s crowd-pleasers? Van Morrison George Benson Sly and the Family Stone Norah Jones or Placebo.
Emilie Simon – Gig Reviews – Music – Entertainment – smh.com.au
Sydney Morning Herald – Jun 25, 2007
She is usually described as an electronic artist which is alittle too limiting for someone who rarely stays long enough in anyone genre. How would Simon describe her music?”I think it’s a hybrid. At the beginning I said it’s electronicsongs because I took the things that I loved in electronic musicand crossed it with my songs. That was the starting point but Ithink I’m there [in the electronic camp] because of the productionand the type of sounds more than the music. “I’m always looking for new textures something surprising. Itis like research for me. I can’t for example put one sound in themachine and let it stay like this.
Delhi: From Madonna to Mika…
Times of India – Jun 25, 2007
” DJ Sunny of Rock Café feels the music scene hasdefinitely changed. “With more and more clubs and discs entering the marketpeople have more to choose from. Say if you don?t like the rock orelectronic music being played somewhere you can turn to some other place thatplays your kind of music” opinesSunny. And if you think sinceDelhi has a prominent Punjabi culture it is easy for the bhangra pop to ridehigh up then you are mistaken. The trend is followed everywhere believes Sahni”It is the public demand and it is not limited to Delhi alone. ” f course towhat else can you attribute the popularity of Jazzy B and Baby Doll albums? Even if you aren?t thefrequent party types you must have witnessed this phenomenon somewhere aroundyou. May be in the coffee shopyou went the other day with your friends that played Adnan Sami?s latestalbum or at the wedding reception in the neighbourhood where the DJ played allthe pulsating remix numbers from his kitty.