What a summer!
Whew! Is it sweltering where you are too? It's turning out to be quite a summer, in so many ways. First, the touring. After her performances in Bogota, S.America Sylvie did a handful of shows in California then flew to Scandinavia where she played three concerts in Norway - way up in the north of the country, and also in Oslo (pictured below, where the musicians included American singer-songwriter Luke Elliott and Norwegian poet Havard Rem, who translated Sylvie's book I'm Your Man: The Life of Leonard Cohen) - with a few days off to climb a mountain and take a fishing boat out into the Norwegian sea and catch an enormous cod!Now she's headed back to S.America again - Chile this time, to play a concert with Chilean musician Matías Cena and be interviewed onstage by Santiago journalist Alfredo Lewin. And after that it's back to Scandinavia! Three shows in Denmark as part of the Aarhus festival, one of them sharing the stage with Howe Gelb and Giant Sand, Steve Shelley of Sonic Youth and M.Ward. Check the Tour page for details of these and also some local shows.Despite all the traveling, Sylvie has kept to her resolution to Tweet her book Serge Gainsbourg: A Fistful of Gitanes every day, a dozen or so tweets at a time, with the occasional commentary and picture! At last glance she was four chapters and around 700 tweets into it. Join her on Twitter or if you want the whole book, which has been updated and is available as an e-book/kindle after a long time out of print, it's here:http://www.amazon.com/Serge-Gainsbourg-Fistful-Gitanes-Expanded-ebook/dp/B00VU4ZA6Y/ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&sr=&qid=Sylvie has also been compiling an album, The Rough Guide to Americana: Vol 2.' The first volume, coincidentally, came out the same year as her Serge Gainsbourg book, in 2001, and featured then-unknown artists, now highly-acclaimed, like The Handsome Family, best-known these days for their theme song to True Detective Season 1. Season 2's theme tune is a Leonard Cohen song!!And of course she's still writing about music. Here's an essay she wrote on Iggy Pop for Radio Silence magazine and book - part personal story, part critique and the second in her series of heartbreak albums , 'The Best Part Of Breaking Up'. Read it here: http://ht.ly/P3Cr6