– What to listen to in January in Geneva? Adam obviously, as long as “the snow falls”
Rock, jazz, song, hip-hop: the highlights of the start of the school year, from the Théâtre du Léman to Usine, from Onex to Collonge-Bellerive.
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The Italian-Belgian singer Salvatore Adamo, 1973.
HORST OSSINGER/KEYSTONE
What to do in January when the culture is still at rest after working so well for a year? But culture never sleeps! Even in January. As for music, for example, the next few weeks feature a tempting list of concerts, rock, pop, hip-hop, jazz and song. Not to mention electronics, house and techno always well represented every weekend in Geneva, at the Zoo, at La Gravière, at Audio and at Motel Campo, four unmissable addresses for long nights by the lake.
But let’s leave the dance floors aside. And let’s see who, in terms of live performances in the traditional sense, dares to brave the chill of 2024 fresh out of bed. We give you the endless list of cover bands and other tribute shows to the dearly departed, or to those who no longer want them, Abba Gold, “One Night of Tina” and other “Pink Floyd History”, the truly great musical disease of the new millennium . .
How to treat it, we don’t know. Otherwise, perhaps, going to listen to Salvatore Adamo, the only one, in flesh and blood, Thursday 25 January at the Théâtre du Léman. “The snow is falling” is appropriate, although snowflakes on the Geneva basin never last longer than feelings of love. And for the rest, as regards the undeniable stars who will arrive this month, we will also see how the French rapper will fare Bubaheadliner of the seventh The Beat, January 27 at the Arena.
Sad and beautiful as the new year begins, or perfectly weighed down, our emotions would do well to cheer us up with loud bursts of decibels, so we say when – quote from the field – “it’s really boring.” Hateful Monday is a local band. Hateful Monday celebrates 25 years of career, Saturday 13 January in the Factory, at the PTR. Here we play skate punk, hardcore, even hardcore punk. “Dirty punk”, as we love to say, not without affection, in the industry. Even rockers have a heart. The sentimental version – a quote from Souchon – can be heard very well with saturated guitars.
It should be noted that PTR, suffering from a slight financial hangover after the year of his 40th birthday, brilliantly continues the winter, a historical figure of local hip-hop, the North Americans Onyx February 2followed by the English pioneers of not only extreme metal, four decades of tinnitus, Death of napalm on February 21st.
Warm as the embers of the fireplaces to which only the great bourgeois of Cologny can aspire, we will once again visit Le Groove next to the Factory. The January festival is Black Movie, which loves independent cinema. And themed evenings. January 26th at Groovethe strange Heartless Bird, a character dressed as a menacing piaf, remakes the legacy of the dark waves in his own fascinating way. January 27same address, same festival, we are happy to find our favorite duo among the moths of the canton, excellent Pistachio bitumenMélanie and Margaux, great duchesses of the latest Genevan rock’n’roll.
Nothing to see, but we are also eagerly awaiting the arrival of Labess at the Onesian Shows, Jan. 25 in the Onex community room. Nedjim Bouizzoul for marital status, Algerian birth, migration to Quebec, introduces a delicacy to the traditional chaâbi that will make your head spin. And feelings, that’s for sure.
The French singer Gabi Hartmann.
YANN ORHAN
Let’s suddenly turn and look elsewhere to see if the good sound is there too. The Left Bank, this time, extends its arms to us. In fact, at the Collonge-Bellerive Epicenter, not far from the very rich villas, the event of the month arrives from Paris, singing in English with a flexible and soft timbre: a new phenomenon in the mainstream jazz scene, strumming deliciously in the popular, Latin repertoire in particular, Gabi Hartmann meets the Genevan Louis Matute, no less brilliant musician, guitarist in his case. Gabi Hartmann and Louis Matutetheir chants tip over in public January 27at the end of a creative residency launched by the Epicenter.
But right away, this Friday 12 Januaryit is to the AMR that we will go, to listen The Great Fang and its transversal sensations. Tusk, the defense in English, that of the walrus in this case, which serves as the emblem of the formation. Cataloged as jazz, but overflowing who knows where precisely, perhaps into industrial rock. Much love also for this regional quartet. Trumpet, synthesizer, guitar, drums, the young ensemble put together by the young guard of jazz from Lake Geneva (we recognize Nathan Vandenbulcke on drums, who plays with Louis Matute) did well last year, on the bill in particular at Cully Jazz . Musically, 2024 is off to a very, very good start.
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