ARCHIVES 2015 / Concert électro Musée Calvet

For the past seven years, the Résonance Festival has been mixing electronic music and history. In late July, this original event makes the old stones of Avignon vibrate to the sounds of electro. For the second year in a row, the Festival d'Avignon and Résonance join forces for an evening in the inner courtyard of the Calvet museum, and an after party on the banks of the Rhône.

In record time, Superpoze has gone through the stages of his young career like a racecar driver devours miles: touring major festivals, from the Trans Musicales to the Montreux Jazz Festival; DJ sets everywhere in Europe; two EPs released on his own label Combien mille records; an album and a series of shows with his band Kuage; a collaboration with Stwo; an EP released by Kitsuné... The result of this hyperactivity can be found in his debut album, released in April 2015, concise, homogenous, and infinitely open-ended. Superpoze's sound has evolved. Breaking away from beatmaking, of which the artist was an adept for years, it now explores the virgin lands of an extremely sensitive electronic music that is never afraid to be melodic.

Camp, because they're nostalgic for the summer camps of their youth, and Claude, a gender-neutral name and the one that appears on Diane Sagnier's birth certificate, the band is first and foremost the lovechild of Sagnier's artistic research and of its creative fusion with the work of composers Mike Giffts and Léo Hellden, both members of Tristesse contemporaine. Born in Paris, the result of their union, which was a finalist in last year's Inrocks lab, transcends borders and genres. Between France and America for her, England and Sweden for them, their skillful mix of rhythms and vocal sensuality belongs as much to pop as it does to electro, free of all labels.