Pearl Jam - Hartford Concert 2010

Pearl Jam is an American rock band that formed in Seattle, Washington in 1990. Since its inception, the band’s line-up has included Eddie Vedder, Jeff Ament, Stone Gossard , Mike McCready, and drummer Matt Cameron, who has been with the band since 1998.

I had to wait for so many years to finally see Pearl Jam on stage, and my expectations were more than topped. They are so powerfully present, the energy of this group it's unbelievable, even at this festival gig that lasted only one and a half hours. I only saw one other band that was equally good on stage, that being Live. Turning that old military site into a music venue was a great idea, even Eddie appreciated.

The discs published in this post are of the Hartford concert, which I think was the best presentation  of this tour and where the band played many songs of their lastest album, Backspacer. Enjoy it!

Disc One .10

Disc Two .10

Pearl Jam - Corduroy

Le Café Abstrait - Volume 6

"Welcome home, Bienvenue au café abstrait": Without compromises but with a lot of passion, Raphaël Marionneau continues his relaxing serie. This is the sixth volume of one of the most loved chillout compilations in Germany. 

This time Raphaël presents a double cd compilation with two parts: Le printemps "Is cheerful and warm as the first rays of sunlight on the skin of a spring morning". L'automme "Is more melancolic and calm as a cosy moment in front of the fireplace during a rainy autumm evening.   

Le Printemps .09 

L'automme .09

Le Café Abstrait - Be Here

Placebo - The Acoustic Set

Placebo are an alternative rock band formed in London in 1994, currently consisting of Brian Molko, Stefan Olsdal and Steve Forrest. To date, they have released six studio albums, six EPs  and twenty-nine singles. The band have gained a considerable amount of international recognition, selling over one million albums in the UK  and over ten million worldwide.

The acoustic set is a unofficial album released in 2001, which has the acoustic versions of songs from their first three albums.

The Acoustic Set .01

Placebo - Every You, every Me

Beck - Sea Change

Beck is an American musician, singer-songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist. With a pop art collage of musical styles, oblique and ironic lyrics, and postmodern arrangements incorporating samples, drum machines, live instrumentation and sound effects, Beck has been hailed by critics and the public throughout his musical career as being amongst the most creative and idiosyncratic musicians of 1990s and 2000s alternative rock.

Sea Change is the eighth studio album and was released in September 2002. Inspired by the dissolution of a relationship, Sea Change received glowing reviews upon its release.

Sea Change .02

Beck - Lost Cause

Fito Paez - No se si es Baires o Madrid

No se si es Baires o Madrid (I do not know if Baires or Madrid) is the album that launches Fito Paez October 1, 2008, recorded live on 24 April that year at the Palacio de los Congresos, Madrid, Spain. The album consists of a CD and a DVD with four bonus tracks. It has the participation of many artists invited to this concert.

It is the third CD of Paez that collects items included in previous albums. Also the song "Contigo" (With You) performed together with Joaquín Sabina, formalizes the end of the disagreement between both born since the work Enemigos Intimos (1998).

No se si es Baires o Madrid  .08

Fito Paez - Brillante sobre el Mic

Stéphane Pompougnac - Hello Mademoiselle

Stéphane Pompougnac is a French House DJ, musician, composer and producer who was born in the South of France.

Very early on, Stéphane was fascinated by different kinds of music, listening to pop, rock and new wave. The real trigger happened in the late 80s, when he discovered house. One day in 1997 in Paris, when he was already a fairly famous DJ, he met up with Jean-Louis Costes, who asked him to mix music at his hotel restaurant. Very soon they had the idea of a compilation which could spread worldwide the spirit of the Hôtel Costes, this mythic glamorous place. The first compilation quickly became an undeniable reference. Over a dozen more successful and intense compilations followed.

Pompougnac released his second album Hello Mademoiselle in early 2006 after his eighth Hôtel Costes compilation.

Hello Mademoiselle .06

Stephane Pompougnac - Hello Mademoiselle