« Quand on a été heureux à Paris, on ne peut plus l’être ailleurs – même à Paris. »
― John Ashbery
Danilo Samà,
“Tous les chiens sont gris, la nuit, à Paris”, 7 July 2024, Domaine de Coubillou, 2 route de Bédarieux, 34240
Lamalou-les-Bains, France
Photography exhibition with the support of Deviant Disco (Paris), Sofa Club
(Lamalou-les-Bains), Art et Industrie (Berlin), Fleurs de Bitume (Béziers) and
CortoCorto (Turin)
Tous les chiens sont gris, la nuit, à Paris
Shortly after I arrived in Paris,
my singer-songwriter friend Alex Rossi released a song in collaboration with
Julien Barthe of Plaisir de France called “Chien” which stuck in my head
for a long time. Listening to the lyrics, I did some research and discovered the
French proverb “Tous les chats sont gris la nuit”.
On a Sunday afternoon, after we did a photo shoot in the Porte-Saint-Denis
neighborhood (where we were looking for a pizzeria, but some elderly prostitutes
kindly chased us away because they thought we wanted to take photographies of
them) and in the Père-Lachaise cemetery
(where we went in search of a grave that we never found, because the name on the
tombstone had changed in the meantime), while having an aperitif in
Ménilmontant, I asked him the authorization to use the phrase “Tous les
chiens sont gris la nuit” (believing that he had only changed “cats”
to “dogs”) for the title of a photographic exhibition that I was invited
to organise. Only then I discovered that the refrain of the song is actually
“All dogs are bored at night” (and not, as I had always thought, “All
dogs are gray at night”).
From there, the reason for titling the exhibition this way: in addition to being
a phrase that embodies the “fil rouge” behind all the photographs and has
a musical sound due to the three rhymes, that misunderstanding perfectly
reflects my being “rital”.
Danilo Samà
Presentation
Qui est
Danilo Samà ?
Il n’y a rien de mieux, pour aimer une ville, que de ne pas en être originaire.
Vu depuis l’Italie, les plus belles déclarations visuelles faites à une ville
viennent de ceux qui n’y ont pas grandi, mais qui ont su montrer toute sa
grandeur, de Federico Fellini, qui vient de Rimini, avec Rome et « La dolce
vita », à Paolo Sorrentino, qui vient de Napoli, avec Rome et « La grande
bellezza ».
Parce qu’il y a d’office ce recul, cette vue d’ensemble et ces gros plans
autres, que ceux qui ont le nez collé dessus et les jambes en plein dedans n’ont
pas ou ont, avec le temps, tristement perdu.
Ce constat de sublimation, par l’innocence et l’excitation, vaut bien sûr pour
la photographie, en l’occurrence pour le travail de Danilo Samà en tant que
Romain qui découvre Paris chaque jour, ou plutôt chaque nuit, comme on
tournerait les pages d’un livre qu’on ne lâcherait plus. La nuit tombe et lui,
encore et encore, tombe amoureux, d’elle. Et le coup de foudre, permanent, se
traduit par le flash, émis par son appareil, en prolongement de son œil.
Danilo, via ses clichés, ne fait ni dans la spécialisation blasée, typique de la
caricature parisienne, ni dans les… clichés, comme un touriste qui n’aurait
pas son billet de retour dans la poche, mais un appareil photo sous le chapeau.
Danilo possède cette fraîcheur de la première fois, y compris quand c’est la
centième pour lui, car il connaît la musique, par cœur et sur le bout des
doigts.
La ville déjà vue, en n’y étant pas de passage, Danilo en a fait le tour, ce qui
le stimule et le captive, depuis le début, c’est le vrai Paris, celui qui a le
parfum de l’euphorie, celui qui a la dérive de la folie, celui qui a le goût de
la vie : tout en restant un étranger, Paname est, pour lui, un lieu familier, un
quartier, the place to be, une rue sans limite, ni issue, c’est là où il
vit mais, surtout, c’est là où il se sent vivant.
John Ashbery : « Quand on a été heureux à Paris, on ne peut plus l’être
ailleurs – même à Paris » ; Paris est une ville qu’il ne quittera pas
autant qu’elle ne le quittera pas : c’est là qu’il y a trouvé, c’est ainsi, sa
dolce vita et la grande bellezza.
Les concerts rythment ses nuits et il s’agit pour lui de regarder la musique :
il est question alors, à son sujet, d’œil musical. Danilo bouge beaucoup, mais
le rendu n’est jamais flou. Il lui faut capturer ces moments soniques, par
définition en mouvement, et de prouver ainsi que l’énergie, appelons-la «
rock », demeure ardente dans la capitale à l’ère du post-covid. Elle est
palpable : on peut du moins ici la toucher avec les yeux.
Sa soif de découverte le mène à l’ivresse, ce secret merveilleux qui se loge
dans le fond des bouteilles de vin comme la promesse, non pas d’un lendemain qui
chante mais d’une nuit, blanche, qui danse, autant que cette envie de se laisser
porter par les pulsations des fêtes parisiennes, donc de suivre, justement, le
mouvement.
Danilo est un photo-reporter libre, un explorateur partageur ; ce qu’il voit, il
vous le montre, ce qui le porte, il vous le rapporte : coups de jus des pas qui
s’agitent sous l’impulsion des décharges d’électricité, headbangings qui
approuvent les bonnes ondes, mélodies pop et fulgurances synthétiques, grâce sur
l’estrade, éclats de voix, attractions acoustiques, fureurs live, live oui, qui
n’existent qu’à l’instant où ils vibrent, et que lui séduit, quand il leur fait
un clin d’œil, pudique, planqué derrière son appareil.
Dans la photo il est question de regard mais aussi de vision, Danilo n’en manque
pas, et il faut dire qu’elle transpire dans tous les recoins de ses images, avec
cet accent qui, lui aussi, chante, l’accent de celui dont l’amour de la ville a
rendu tout sauf aveugle.
La nuit, c’est là où il y voit clair, parce que c’est à ce moment-là que les
visages et l’harmonie s’illuminent, et que le rythme à cent à l’heure de Paris
prend tout son sens, par la musique, par les concerts, car c’est bien quand le
ciel est noir qu’il y a la vie lumière.
Rosario Ligammari
(French-Italian music journalist)
www.linktr.ee/rosarioligammari
Booking
If you would like to host the
exhibition “Tous les chiens sont gris, la nuit, à
Paris” at your gallery/venue, please get
in touch via
ds@danilosama.ph
or the “Contact”
section of the website. The technical sheet of the exhibition setup is available (in English, French, Italian) upon request.
Agenda
“Tous les chiens sont gris, la nuit, à Paris”
Photography exhibition by Danilo Samà
5-6-7
July 2024
Deviant Disco
(Summer Camp #2)
Music Festival at the Domaine de Coubillou
Lamalou-les-Bains
France
Deviant Disco and
Sofa Club
join forces over the weekend to bring you an intimate pop-rock and electronic festival at the
Domaine de Coubillou
in the Hérault region. The festival will take place over three days, during which dj sets and live performances will follow one another to offer you a unique musical experience that will close with a pool party on Sunday afternoon.
Summer Camp #2
It is after lockdown that Deviant Disco launched the first edition of the
Summer Camp: a bunch of music lovers, keen on pop music but also on
cutting-edge electro sounds, gathered for three days in an old mansion in the
south-west of France. Two years after, we decided to start it over and to launch
a second edition dedicated to Italian music, by inviting the most Italian of
French pop-singers, Alex Rossi, and the electronic music duo La Notte di Parigi,
plus some djs close to Deviant Disco’s aesthetics. We will offer you a unique
experience of a long weekend in a charming mansion with a swimming pool situated in a vineyard: the Domaine de Coubillou. Get your tickets now, so that you and your friends can enjoy an exceptional venue near Béziers.
Domaine de Coubillou
Just 40 minutes from Béziers and the nearest beach (Valras), the Domaine de
Coubillou is set in the heart of the Haut Languedoc Regional Nature Park,
surrounded by vineyards and mountains. It is a magical place, built in the 17th
century near the Gorges d’Héric, one of the most beautiful gorges in France
carved out of gneiss. (www.coubillou.fr)
Line‐up
Friday 5 July 2024 h. 19:00-02:00
▪
Alex Rossi (live)
▪
Kiko (dj set)
▪
Deviant Disco (dj set)
Saturday 6 July 2024 h. 19:00-02:00
▪
La Notte di Parigi (live)
▪
Mlle Caro (dj set)
Sunday 7 July 2024 h. 13:00-21:00 (Pool Party)
▪
Sofa Club (dj set)
▪
Eva Peel +
Deviant Disco All Stars (dj set)
▪ Photography exhibition by
Danilo Samà (“Tous les chiens sont gris, la nuit, à Paris”)
▪ VJ David Brunner
Deviant Disco
Deviant Disco is an artistic collective based in Paris, founded in 2013 by Eva Peel. Deviant Disco where the desire to explore an electronic sound that is off the beaten track. It is something that sounds like disco but is not disco. The collective advocates a free party and queer values. Deviant Disco is a variable-geometry collective that brings together djs, video artists, set designers and performers. Deviant Disco is also a record label and event promoter. (deviantdisco.space)
Sofa Club
Sofa Club is an itinerant collective from the Hérault region that organises convivial events throughout the year in the quarries of a castle, the Domaine de Coubillou. Activists in the local digger scene, they perform at festivals and parties all over the south-east of France. (www.instagram.com/sofa_club34)
Alex Rossi
Alex Rossi is a singer and songwriter of Italian origin from the Gers region. He has been described as “the most Italian of French singers”. He moved to Paris in 1993, where he began working in the cinema and television industry, and continued as a self-taught songwriter. In 1997, he made his debut, initially signing a contract with Mercury. Over the next few years, he began writing songs for other artists, including Axel Bauer, Dick Rivers and David Hallyday. The artistic turning point came in 2012, when, rediscovering his “rital” origins, he began releasing singles and music videos in Italian. He enjoyed success with the release of his debut album “Domani è un’altra notte”, published by Kwaidan Records in 2019. The singles, music videos and remix EPs for “Tutto va bene quando facciamo l’amore” and “Faccia a faccia” are an internationally acclaimed success. (linktr.ee/alexrossi)
Kiko
Key figure on the electronic scene, Kiko has been delighting fans of electronic music for two decades. The adventure began in the 1990s in Grenoble, where Kiko made numerous collaborations on labels such as Goodlife and Ozone Records with French and international artists including The Hacker, Oxia and Miss Kittin. His eclectic discography blends melodic techno and indie dance and includes a number of hits: the French
touch hit “World Cup”, released in 1998, “Beautiful Place”, ranked by Mixmag in the top 10 most-played tracks at Coachella in 2015, and “Living in
space”, produced with Dave Davis in collaboration with Phoebe Killdeer, lead singer of The Avener. He has even collaborated with David Guetta under his alias Jack back. Backed by some of the biggest names on the global electro scene (Tale Of Us, Solomun), he has released a string of tracks on the most prestigious labels: Afterlife, Diynamic, Watergate, Stil vor Talent, Bedrock, and Bordello a Parigi. (linktr.ee/signaturebykiko)
La Notte di Parigi
La Notte di Parigi was born in 2018, the result of a meeting between musician FK Club and singer Eva Peel. A few years earlier, Marc had remixed “Silenzio”, a track from Eva’s previous project, Theremynt. The two artists combine their musical and cinematic influences to write a four-handed story where cold wave, italo-disco, rock and synth pop come together. After being released on Bandcamp via Deviant Disco, they have just signed to Kwaidan Records and are distributed by Wagram Music. (www.soundcloud.com/lanottediparigi)
Mlle Caro
For Caroline Laher, it all started when she was twenty years old in Perpignan, where she opened a record store and began to fulfill her passion for music. Very quickly she became interested in a new emerging trend that would change the whole society: electronic music. Mademoiselle Caro then decided to move to Paris to boost her career as an artist. In a few years, she became one of the main figures of the French electronic scene and ended up for more than eight years as a resident dj at Rex Club, Paris temple of electronic music. She was also one of the resident dj at the famous Pulp club in Paris. Thoughout the years, she has been invited to perform all over the world (Milan, London, Berlin, Barcelona, Dakar, Tahiti, New Caldonia, Moscow) and produced the essential “Far away” on Crosstown Rebels record label, then two albums: “Pain Disappears” and “Left” on Buzzin’ Fly (Ben Watts from Everything but the girl record label), as well as numerous remixes and collaborations. Mlle Caro has been in charge of programming Rosa Bonheur’s venue for several years, she also played frequently on the famous Parisian venues. She is now back in her hometown in Perpignan. (www.instagram.com/itsmademoisellecaro)
Eva Peel
Founder of Deviant Disco, a collective whose aim is to bring together djs and producers who share passion for deviant music. Eva Peel is first and foremost a 360° dj, whose playlists surprise you while making you dance. Also a singer, after ten years with the Theremynt project, she is now collaborating with FK Club on the duo La Notte di Parigi. Influenced by italo disco, new wave, dark disco and cosmic, Eva Peel’s sets are always unique and catchy. (www.soundcloud.com/eva-peel)
Danilo Samà
Originally from Rome (Italy, 1984), Danilo Samà has lived abroad for the past fifteen years, between Aarhus (Denmark), Rotterdam (The Netherlands), Ghent (Belgium), Hamburg (Germany), Toulouse (France), and Brussels (Belgium). Active in the music industry for twenty years as co-founder of the artistic collective CortoCorto, he currently lives in Paris (France), where his clicks portray the night music scene and collaborates with both French and Italian artists (in a “rital” fashion). His photographs are regularly published in newspapers and magazines. Realness is the key element of his photographic aesthetics/research. “Tous les chiens sont gris, la nuit, à Paris”, title of his itinerant photography exhibition, summarizes the work of latest years in 20 shots, chosen differently from his collection for each exhibition (as happens with the setlist of a concert). (www.danilosama.ph)
David Brunner
As a video artist and designer, he works with a number of institutions, private
structures and communications agencies that rely on his skills. His experience
enables him to work in a variety of fields, including video scenography,
multimedia production, graphic design and development, event logistics and
promotion. A VJ (video jockey) on the electronic music scene, his work as a
visual artist exploits all media, with no hierarchy of genre. His environments
are made up of paintings, sculptures, wall decors, photographs, digital
animations and more. He readily borrows from both popular culture and scientific
domain. (www.davidbrunner.fr)
Domaine de Coubillou
2, route de Bédarieux
34240 Lamalou-les-Bains
France
Website:
www.coubillou.fr
Facebook:
www.facebook.com/domainedecoubillou
Instagram:
www.instagram.com/domainecoubillou
Google Maps:
maps.app.goo.gl/jjjv3LdchCxykD8m7
Telephone: +33.6.65.23.45.10
E-mail:
contact@coubillou.fr
On a Sunday afternoon, after we did a photo shoot in the Porte-Saint-Denis neighborhood (where we were looking for a pizzeria, but some elderly prostitutes kindly chased us away because they thought we wanted to take photographies of them) and in the Père-Lachaise cemetery (where we went in search of a grave that we never found, because the name on the tombstone had changed in the meantime), while having an aperitif in Ménilmontant, I asked him the authorization to use the phrase “Tous les chiens sont gris la nuit” (believing that he had only changed “cats” to “dogs”) for the title of a photographic exhibition that I was invited to organise. Only then I discovered that the refrain of the song is actually “All dogs are bored at night” (and not, as I had always thought, “All dogs are gray at night”).
From there, the reason for titling the exhibition this way: in addition to being a phrase that embodies the “fil rouge” behind all the photographs and has a musical sound due to the three rhymes, that misunderstanding perfectly reflects my being “rital”.
Danilo Samà
Presentation
Qui est
Danilo Samà ?
Il n’y a rien de mieux, pour aimer une ville, que de ne pas en être originaire.
Vu depuis l’Italie, les plus belles déclarations visuelles faites à une ville
viennent de ceux qui n’y ont pas grandi, mais qui ont su montrer toute sa
grandeur, de Federico Fellini, qui vient de Rimini, avec Rome et « La dolce
vita », à Paolo Sorrentino, qui vient de Napoli, avec Rome et « La grande
bellezza ».
Parce qu’il y a d’office ce recul, cette vue d’ensemble et ces gros plans
autres, que ceux qui ont le nez collé dessus et les jambes en plein dedans n’ont
pas ou ont, avec le temps, tristement perdu.
Ce constat de sublimation, par l’innocence et l’excitation, vaut bien sûr pour
la photographie, en l’occurrence pour le travail de Danilo Samà en tant que
Romain qui découvre Paris chaque jour, ou plutôt chaque nuit, comme on
tournerait les pages d’un livre qu’on ne lâcherait plus. La nuit tombe et lui,
encore et encore, tombe amoureux, d’elle. Et le coup de foudre, permanent, se
traduit par le flash, émis par son appareil, en prolongement de son œil.
Danilo, via ses clichés, ne fait ni dans la spécialisation blasée, typique de la
caricature parisienne, ni dans les… clichés, comme un touriste qui n’aurait
pas son billet de retour dans la poche, mais un appareil photo sous le chapeau.
Danilo possède cette fraîcheur de la première fois, y compris quand c’est la
centième pour lui, car il connaît la musique, par cœur et sur le bout des
doigts.
La ville déjà vue, en n’y étant pas de passage, Danilo en a fait le tour, ce qui
le stimule et le captive, depuis le début, c’est le vrai Paris, celui qui a le
parfum de l’euphorie, celui qui a la dérive de la folie, celui qui a le goût de
la vie : tout en restant un étranger, Paname est, pour lui, un lieu familier, un
quartier, the place to be, une rue sans limite, ni issue, c’est là où il
vit mais, surtout, c’est là où il se sent vivant.
John Ashbery : « Quand on a été heureux à Paris, on ne peut plus l’être
ailleurs – même à Paris » ; Paris est une ville qu’il ne quittera pas
autant qu’elle ne le quittera pas : c’est là qu’il y a trouvé, c’est ainsi, sa
dolce vita et la grande bellezza.
Les concerts rythment ses nuits et il s’agit pour lui de regarder la musique :
il est question alors, à son sujet, d’œil musical. Danilo bouge beaucoup, mais
le rendu n’est jamais flou. Il lui faut capturer ces moments soniques, par
définition en mouvement, et de prouver ainsi que l’énergie, appelons-la «
rock », demeure ardente dans la capitale à l’ère du post-covid. Elle est
palpable : on peut du moins ici la toucher avec les yeux.
Sa soif de découverte le mène à l’ivresse, ce secret merveilleux qui se loge
dans le fond des bouteilles de vin comme la promesse, non pas d’un lendemain qui
chante mais d’une nuit, blanche, qui danse, autant que cette envie de se laisser
porter par les pulsations des fêtes parisiennes, donc de suivre, justement, le
mouvement.
Danilo est un photo-reporter libre, un explorateur partageur ; ce qu’il voit, il
vous le montre, ce qui le porte, il vous le rapporte : coups de jus des pas qui
s’agitent sous l’impulsion des décharges d’électricité, headbangings qui
approuvent les bonnes ondes, mélodies pop et fulgurances synthétiques, grâce sur
l’estrade, éclats de voix, attractions acoustiques, fureurs live, live oui, qui
n’existent qu’à l’instant où ils vibrent, et que lui séduit, quand il leur fait
un clin d’œil, pudique, planqué derrière son appareil.
Dans la photo il est question de regard mais aussi de vision, Danilo n’en manque
pas, et il faut dire qu’elle transpire dans tous les recoins de ses images, avec
cet accent qui, lui aussi, chante, l’accent de celui dont l’amour de la ville a
rendu tout sauf aveugle.
La nuit, c’est là où il y voit clair, parce que c’est à ce moment-là que les
visages et l’harmonie s’illuminent, et que le rythme à cent à l’heure de Paris
prend tout son sens, par la musique, par les concerts, car c’est bien quand le
ciel est noir qu’il y a la vie lumière.
Rosario Ligammari
(French-Italian music journalist)
www.linktr.ee/rosarioligammari
Booking
If you would like to host the
exhibition “Tous les chiens sont gris, la nuit, à
Paris” at your gallery/venue, please get
in touch via
ds@danilosama.ph
or the “Contact”
section of the website. The technical sheet of the exhibition setup is available (in English, French, Italian) upon request.
Agenda
“Tous les chiens sont gris, la nuit, à Paris”
Photography exhibition by Danilo Samà
5-6-7
July 2024
Deviant Disco
(Summer Camp #2)
Music Festival at the Domaine de Coubillou
Lamalou-les-Bains
France
Deviant Disco and
Sofa Club
join forces over the weekend to bring you an intimate pop-rock and electronic festival at the
Domaine de Coubillou
in the Hérault region. The festival will take place over three days, during which dj sets and live performances will follow one another to offer you a unique musical experience that will close with a pool party on Sunday afternoon.
Summer Camp #2
It is after lockdown that Deviant Disco launched the first edition of the
Summer Camp: a bunch of music lovers, keen on pop music but also on
cutting-edge electro sounds, gathered for three days in an old mansion in the
south-west of France. Two years after, we decided to start it over and to launch
a second edition dedicated to Italian music, by inviting the most Italian of
French pop-singers, Alex Rossi, and the electronic music duo La Notte di Parigi,
plus some djs close to Deviant Disco’s aesthetics. We will offer you a unique
experience of a long weekend in a charming mansion with a swimming pool situated in a vineyard: the Domaine de Coubillou. Get your tickets now, so that you and your friends can enjoy an exceptional venue near Béziers.
Domaine de Coubillou
Just 40 minutes from Béziers and the nearest beach (Valras), the Domaine de
Coubillou is set in the heart of the Haut Languedoc Regional Nature Park,
surrounded by vineyards and mountains. It is a magical place, built in the 17th
century near the Gorges d’Héric, one of the most beautiful gorges in France
carved out of gneiss. (www.coubillou.fr)
Line‐up
Friday 5 July 2024 h. 19:00-02:00
▪
Alex Rossi (live)
▪
Kiko (dj set)
▪
Deviant Disco (dj set)
Saturday 6 July 2024 h. 19:00-02:00
▪
La Notte di Parigi (live)
▪
Mlle Caro (dj set)
Sunday 7 July 2024 h. 13:00-21:00 (Pool Party)
▪
Sofa Club (dj set)
▪
Eva Peel +
Deviant Disco All Stars (dj set)
▪ Photography exhibition by
Danilo Samà (“Tous les chiens sont gris, la nuit, à Paris”)
▪ VJ David Brunner
Deviant Disco
Deviant Disco is an artistic collective based in Paris, founded in 2013 by Eva Peel. Deviant Disco where the desire to explore an electronic sound that is off the beaten track. It is something that sounds like disco but is not disco. The collective advocates a free party and queer values. Deviant Disco is a variable-geometry collective that brings together djs, video artists, set designers and performers. Deviant Disco is also a record label and event promoter. (deviantdisco.space)
Sofa Club
Sofa Club is an itinerant collective from the Hérault region that organises convivial events throughout the year in the quarries of a castle, the Domaine de Coubillou. Activists in the local digger scene, they perform at festivals and parties all over the south-east of France. (www.instagram.com/sofa_club34)
Alex Rossi
Alex Rossi is a singer and songwriter of Italian origin from the Gers region. He has been described as “the most Italian of French singers”. He moved to Paris in 1993, where he began working in the cinema and television industry, and continued as a self-taught songwriter. In 1997, he made his debut, initially signing a contract with Mercury. Over the next few years, he began writing songs for other artists, including Axel Bauer, Dick Rivers and David Hallyday. The artistic turning point came in 2012, when, rediscovering his “rital” origins, he began releasing singles and music videos in Italian. He enjoyed success with the release of his debut album “Domani è un’altra notte”, published by Kwaidan Records in 2019. The singles, music videos and remix EPs for “Tutto va bene quando facciamo l’amore” and “Faccia a faccia” are an internationally acclaimed success. (linktr.ee/alexrossi)
Kiko
Key figure on the electronic scene, Kiko has been delighting fans of electronic music for two decades. The adventure began in the 1990s in Grenoble, where Kiko made numerous collaborations on labels such as Goodlife and Ozone Records with French and international artists including The Hacker, Oxia and Miss Kittin. His eclectic discography blends melodic techno and indie dance and includes a number of hits: the French
touch hit “World Cup”, released in 1998, “Beautiful Place”, ranked by Mixmag in the top 10 most-played tracks at Coachella in 2015, and “Living in
space”, produced with Dave Davis in collaboration with Phoebe Killdeer, lead singer of The Avener. He has even collaborated with David Guetta under his alias Jack back. Backed by some of the biggest names on the global electro scene (Tale Of Us, Solomun), he has released a string of tracks on the most prestigious labels: Afterlife, Diynamic, Watergate, Stil vor Talent, Bedrock, and Bordello a Parigi. (linktr.ee/signaturebykiko)
La Notte di Parigi
La Notte di Parigi was born in 2018, the result of a meeting between musician FK Club and singer Eva Peel. A few years earlier, Marc had remixed “Silenzio”, a track from Eva’s previous project, Theremynt. The two artists combine their musical and cinematic influences to write a four-handed story where cold wave, italo-disco, rock and synth pop come together. After being released on Bandcamp via Deviant Disco, they have just signed to Kwaidan Records and are distributed by Wagram Music. (www.soundcloud.com/lanottediparigi)
Mlle Caro
For Caroline Laher, it all started when she was twenty years old in Perpignan, where she opened a record store and began to fulfill her passion for music. Very quickly she became interested in a new emerging trend that would change the whole society: electronic music. Mademoiselle Caro then decided to move to Paris to boost her career as an artist. In a few years, she became one of the main figures of the French electronic scene and ended up for more than eight years as a resident dj at Rex Club, Paris temple of electronic music. She was also one of the resident dj at the famous Pulp club in Paris. Thoughout the years, she has been invited to perform all over the world (Milan, London, Berlin, Barcelona, Dakar, Tahiti, New Caldonia, Moscow) and produced the essential “Far away” on Crosstown Rebels record label, then two albums: “Pain Disappears” and “Left” on Buzzin’ Fly (Ben Watts from Everything but the girl record label), as well as numerous remixes and collaborations. Mlle Caro has been in charge of programming Rosa Bonheur’s venue for several years, she also played frequently on the famous Parisian venues. She is now back in her hometown in Perpignan. (www.instagram.com/itsmademoisellecaro)
Eva Peel
Founder of Deviant Disco, a collective whose aim is to bring together djs and producers who share passion for deviant music. Eva Peel is first and foremost a 360° dj, whose playlists surprise you while making you dance. Also a singer, after ten years with the Theremynt project, she is now collaborating with FK Club on the duo La Notte di Parigi. Influenced by italo disco, new wave, dark disco and cosmic, Eva Peel’s sets are always unique and catchy. (www.soundcloud.com/eva-peel)
Danilo Samà
Originally from Rome (Italy, 1984), Danilo Samà has lived abroad for the past fifteen years, between Aarhus (Denmark), Rotterdam (The Netherlands), Ghent (Belgium), Hamburg (Germany), Toulouse (France), and Brussels (Belgium). Active in the music industry for twenty years as co-founder of the artistic collective CortoCorto, he currently lives in Paris (France), where his clicks portray the night music scene and collaborates with both French and Italian artists (in a “rital” fashion). His photographs are regularly published in newspapers and magazines. Realness is the key element of his photographic aesthetics/research. “Tous les chiens sont gris, la nuit, à Paris”, title of his itinerant photography exhibition, summarizes the work of latest years in 20 shots, chosen differently from his collection for each exhibition (as happens with the setlist of a concert). (www.danilosama.ph)
David Brunner
As a video artist and designer, he works with a number of institutions, private
structures and communications agencies that rely on his skills. His experience
enables him to work in a variety of fields, including video scenography,
multimedia production, graphic design and development, event logistics and
promotion. A VJ (video jockey) on the electronic music scene, his work as a
visual artist exploits all media, with no hierarchy of genre. His environments
are made up of paintings, sculptures, wall decors, photographs, digital
animations and more. He readily borrows from both popular culture and scientific
domain. (www.davidbrunner.fr)
Domaine de Coubillou
2, route de Bédarieux
34240 Lamalou-les-Bains
France
Website:
www.coubillou.fr
Facebook:
www.facebook.com/domainedecoubillou
Instagram:
www.instagram.com/domainecoubillou
Google Maps:
maps.app.goo.gl/jjjv3LdchCxykD8m7
Telephone: +33.6.65.23.45.10
E-mail:
contact@coubillou.fr
Photography exhibition by Danilo Samà
5-6-7 July 2024
Deviant Disco (Summer Camp #2)
Music Festival at the Domaine de Coubillou
Lamalou-les-Bains
France
Deviant Disco and Sofa Club join forces over the weekend to bring you an intimate pop-rock and electronic festival at the Domaine de Coubillou in the Hérault region. The festival will take place over three days, during which dj sets and live performances will follow one another to offer you a unique musical experience that will close with a pool party on Sunday afternoon.
Summer Camp #2
It is after lockdown that Deviant Disco launched the first edition of the Summer Camp: a bunch of music lovers, keen on pop music but also on cutting-edge electro sounds, gathered for three days in an old mansion in the south-west of France. Two years after, we decided to start it over and to launch a second edition dedicated to Italian music, by inviting the most Italian of French pop-singers, Alex Rossi, and the electronic music duo La Notte di Parigi, plus some djs close to Deviant Disco’s aesthetics. We will offer you a unique experience of a long weekend in a charming mansion with a swimming pool situated in a vineyard: the Domaine de Coubillou. Get your tickets now, so that you and your friends can enjoy an exceptional venue near Béziers.
Domaine de Coubillou
Just 40 minutes from Béziers and the nearest beach (Valras), the Domaine de Coubillou is set in the heart of the Haut Languedoc Regional Nature Park, surrounded by vineyards and mountains. It is a magical place, built in the 17th century near the Gorges d’Héric, one of the most beautiful gorges in France carved out of gneiss. (www.coubillou.fr)
Line‐up
Friday 5 July 2024 h. 19:00-02:00
▪ Alex Rossi (live)
▪ Kiko (dj set)
▪ Deviant Disco (dj set)
Saturday 6 July 2024 h. 19:00-02:00
▪ La Notte di Parigi (live)
▪ Mlle Caro (dj set)
Sunday 7 July 2024 h. 13:00-21:00 (Pool Party)
▪ Sofa Club (dj set)
▪ Eva Peel + Deviant Disco All Stars (dj set)
▪ Photography exhibition by Danilo Samà (“Tous les chiens sont gris, la nuit, à Paris”)
▪ VJ David Brunner
Deviant Disco
Deviant Disco is an artistic collective based in Paris, founded in 2013 by Eva Peel. Deviant Disco where the desire to explore an electronic sound that is off the beaten track. It is something that sounds like disco but is not disco. The collective advocates a free party and queer values. Deviant Disco is a variable-geometry collective that brings together djs, video artists, set designers and performers. Deviant Disco is also a record label and event promoter. (deviantdisco.space)
Sofa Club
Sofa Club is an itinerant collective from the Hérault region that organises convivial events throughout the year in the quarries of a castle, the Domaine de Coubillou. Activists in the local digger scene, they perform at festivals and parties all over the south-east of France. (www.instagram.com/sofa_club34)
Alex Rossi
Alex Rossi is a singer and songwriter of Italian origin from the Gers region. He has been described as “the most Italian of French singers”. He moved to Paris in 1993, where he began working in the cinema and television industry, and continued as a self-taught songwriter. In 1997, he made his debut, initially signing a contract with Mercury. Over the next few years, he began writing songs for other artists, including Axel Bauer, Dick Rivers and David Hallyday. The artistic turning point came in 2012, when, rediscovering his “rital” origins, he began releasing singles and music videos in Italian. He enjoyed success with the release of his debut album “Domani è un’altra notte”, published by Kwaidan Records in 2019. The singles, music videos and remix EPs for “Tutto va bene quando facciamo l’amore” and “Faccia a faccia” are an internationally acclaimed success. (linktr.ee/alexrossi)
Kiko
Key figure on the electronic scene, Kiko has been delighting fans of electronic music for two decades. The adventure began in the 1990s in Grenoble, where Kiko made numerous collaborations on labels such as Goodlife and Ozone Records with French and international artists including The Hacker, Oxia and Miss Kittin. His eclectic discography blends melodic techno and indie dance and includes a number of hits: the French touch hit “World Cup”, released in 1998, “Beautiful Place”, ranked by Mixmag in the top 10 most-played tracks at Coachella in 2015, and “Living in space”, produced with Dave Davis in collaboration with Phoebe Killdeer, lead singer of The Avener. He has even collaborated with David Guetta under his alias Jack back. Backed by some of the biggest names on the global electro scene (Tale Of Us, Solomun), he has released a string of tracks on the most prestigious labels: Afterlife, Diynamic, Watergate, Stil vor Talent, Bedrock, and Bordello a Parigi. (linktr.ee/signaturebykiko)
La Notte di Parigi
La Notte di Parigi was born in 2018, the result of a meeting between musician FK Club and singer Eva Peel. A few years earlier, Marc had remixed “Silenzio”, a track from Eva’s previous project, Theremynt. The two artists combine their musical and cinematic influences to write a four-handed story where cold wave, italo-disco, rock and synth pop come together. After being released on Bandcamp via Deviant Disco, they have just signed to Kwaidan Records and are distributed by Wagram Music. (www.soundcloud.com/lanottediparigi)
Mlle Caro
For Caroline Laher, it all started when she was twenty years old in Perpignan, where she opened a record store and began to fulfill her passion for music. Very quickly she became interested in a new emerging trend that would change the whole society: electronic music. Mademoiselle Caro then decided to move to Paris to boost her career as an artist. In a few years, she became one of the main figures of the French electronic scene and ended up for more than eight years as a resident dj at Rex Club, Paris temple of electronic music. She was also one of the resident dj at the famous Pulp club in Paris. Thoughout the years, she has been invited to perform all over the world (Milan, London, Berlin, Barcelona, Dakar, Tahiti, New Caldonia, Moscow) and produced the essential “Far away” on Crosstown Rebels record label, then two albums: “Pain Disappears” and “Left” on Buzzin’ Fly (Ben Watts from Everything but the girl record label), as well as numerous remixes and collaborations. Mlle Caro has been in charge of programming Rosa Bonheur’s venue for several years, she also played frequently on the famous Parisian venues. She is now back in her hometown in Perpignan. (www.instagram.com/itsmademoisellecaro)
Eva Peel
Founder of Deviant Disco, a collective whose aim is to bring together djs and producers who share passion for deviant music. Eva Peel is first and foremost a 360° dj, whose playlists surprise you while making you dance. Also a singer, after ten years with the Theremynt project, she is now collaborating with FK Club on the duo La Notte di Parigi. Influenced by italo disco, new wave, dark disco and cosmic, Eva Peel’s sets are always unique and catchy. (www.soundcloud.com/eva-peel)
Danilo Samà
Originally from Rome (Italy, 1984), Danilo Samà has lived abroad for the past fifteen years, between Aarhus (Denmark), Rotterdam (The Netherlands), Ghent (Belgium), Hamburg (Germany), Toulouse (France), and Brussels (Belgium). Active in the music industry for twenty years as co-founder of the artistic collective CortoCorto, he currently lives in Paris (France), where his clicks portray the night music scene and collaborates with both French and Italian artists (in a “rital” fashion). His photographs are regularly published in newspapers and magazines. Realness is the key element of his photographic aesthetics/research. “Tous les chiens sont gris, la nuit, à Paris”, title of his itinerant photography exhibition, summarizes the work of latest years in 20 shots, chosen differently from his collection for each exhibition (as happens with the setlist of a concert). (www.danilosama.ph)
David Brunner
As a video artist and designer, he works with a number of institutions, private structures and communications agencies that rely on his skills. His experience enables him to work in a variety of fields, including video scenography, multimedia production, graphic design and development, event logistics and promotion. A VJ (video jockey) on the electronic music scene, his work as a visual artist exploits all media, with no hierarchy of genre. His environments are made up of paintings, sculptures, wall decors, photographs, digital animations and more. He readily borrows from both popular culture and scientific domain. (www.davidbrunner.fr)
Domaine de Coubillou
2, route de Bédarieux
34240 Lamalou-les-Bains
France
Website: www.coubillou.fr
Facebook: www.facebook.com/domainedecoubillou
Instagram: www.instagram.com/domainecoubillou
Google Maps: maps.app.goo.gl/jjjv3LdchCxykD8m7
Telephone: +33.6.65.23.45.10
E-mail: contact@coubillou.fr