Feature on Initials DC's album -10°C

I had the pleasure to contribute some bass and background-singing when Frankfurt-based musician Intitals DC came to record his Album with Jules Etienne in Berlin. They composed 9 fantastic Pop-Songs, full of great harmonies, surprising changes and interesting texts. 

I am also very proud to have my first photograph on an album-cover. 

Have a listen to the album, you will like it. Also consider buying it, do you remember, we used to buy CDs in the ancient times, it's still a good way to support the artists and to have a proper peace of art in your hands.

With the Lala By at Berghain Kantine

Last week i performed with the Lala By-family at Berghain Kantine. As usual it was kind of a dark, mystical theatralic performance, this time we looked particularly good because of the beautiful masks created especially for this event by Guillaume Airiaud. It was a night to remember, especially as we will now take a longer break and don't know when we will be performing again. Here are some pics from behind the scenes:

 the master of the masks: Guillaume Airiaud

 Make-up by David Lenhardt

 The creator of the Lala By: Steev Lemercier

Jules Etienne e Le Volpi live

This is our new beautiful flyer, designed by Nathalie Nienkemper. I like it very much, you might see it somewhere in town these days.

Jules Etienne e le volpi will be playing 2 gigs in the coming weeks:

28/05/2011

at Kunsthaus Kreuzberg/Bethanien
Mariannenplatz 2 D-10997 Berlin
start round 20.00

it's a Sommerfest with a lot of bands, art, food and drinks, we'll be playing for the first time on an open air stage! more info here
 

21/06/2011
at Schalotte
Fête de la Musique
Behaimstraße 22 D-10585 Berlin
start round 18:00

For those who don't know us yet: 

We are a european folk-pop band based in Berlin. Jules Etienne (voc, guitar) founded the band in 2010 with Yanneck Salvo (pianet, voc) and Jules Valeron (bassguitar, voc), in 2011 Maryz Blue (cello, voc) joined the band, now called "Jules Etienne e le volpi"(...and the foxes).

The songs can be described as diary music, intimate stories told with warm voices and bittersweet melodies. You might like us if you listen to Kings of Convenience, Nick Drake or Simon and Garfunkel.

give it a listen.

Oh and the new EP "Scars and Bandages" is on its way..

See you at Haus Bethanien or at Schalotte!

Yours,

Jules Valeron

London

I'm back from London and will start blogging regularly about my musical and photographic activities, but also about what inspires me and i will also be sharing some songs i've been working on over the past months, so stay tuned!

I went to London with my Band Jules Etienne as we got invited by Howard and Lucy from "The Local" to play at the the "Slaughtered Lamb".
We played a really good show, drank some pints and i enjoyed walking around this dynamic city. It felt good to see so many colored people, old majestic buildings and well-dressed ladies and gents. To feel traditional british flavour and the energy and high pace of London town. Had a great time - and glad to be back in Berlin!
Here are some impressions, more architecture photos will follow soon.
Cheers!

Jules Etienne and his guitar on the way to the gig

James Ashby & Sons Ltd.

Mist I

Red door and exotic tree

Central St Martin

In the Backyard

Renard

Jules Etienne and Sherlock H.

British Car

Waiting

No Passport (but that's another story and i don't want to talk about it)

Mist II

Stars of CCTV

Upcoming Concerts

Lemercier & the Lala By
11/10 Monster Ronson BERLIN

Jules Etienne 
18/10 Pony Bar HAMBURG
03/11 ZDF MORGENMAGAZIN
19/11 Sowieso BERLIN 
20/11 Dazzle Danzclub BERLIN 
27/11 Balcony TV HAMBURG
29/11 Joe's Bar BERLIN

Lemercier & the Lala By at Schwuz

As you might have already heard I am really happy to integrate the Lala By - Project of Steev Lermercier.
I am playing the bass within this artistic 10-people-group, and i'm playing it loud!
It's so much fun to play with all these different people with proper drums, 2 guitars, percussions, background-singers...
The first concert i will be playing will be at Schwuz Kreuzberg on friday 20th of August. We will be diguised as antique greeks and we'll play a cover version of a famous turquish song.
The music is dark and loud, have a listen on myspace
start around 1 p.m, hit me up for guestlist

Jules Etienne Tour Dates and cover-song-contest

We will play again at the fantastic "Ä" Bar in Kreuzkölln coming wednesday (21.07.).
They have great atmosphere, cheap beer, nice people, Tischfussball..
And it's Free Entrance!
We have also launched a cover-song-contest:
you can ask us to play our version of a song you like and if we like it too, we will play it at one of our next concerts!

come, it's gonna be fun!

Photoshooting Jules Etienne

We had a lovely evening in a nice, green oasis in Neukölln/Rixdorf, shooting photos for upcoming promo-activities. Thanks to Juliette Clémenceau for the photos.

Lemercier & the Lala By at HBC, june 12th 2010 on the Behance Network

Lemercier & the Lala By at HBC, june 12th 2010 on the Behance Network

Freelance Whales: "Generator 2nd Floor"

Coup de coeur: just discovered this excellent band and i can't stop watching this wonderful live-version!

Jules Etienne @ Junction Bar

I'm happy to be on stage again with Jules Etienne coming sunday, the 6th of April at Junction Bar in Kreuzberg. The concert starts at 9 p.m. with Martin Tetzlaff solo, and then it's gonna be Jules Etienne singing his folk-pop-songs, acompanied by Yanneck aka Quarion at the pianet and myself at the bass.

For those who don't know Jules Etienne yet, check out this nice article that the music magazine Intro wrote about his Debut-CD "Short Stories".

We will also be performing at Fritz-Radio's Ken Fm on Sundy the 18th of april, so stay tuned and hope to see you an sunday!

1 year of Coconut-Vibrations

Approximately one year after I started the Coconuts project we are back with the original Lineup as our globetrotter-bassist Vera is back in Berlin.
It feels really good to have her back and our sound is getting very close to where i want it to be.

We will celebrate 1 year of Valeron & the Coconuts on the 24th of April at Beakers in Prenlauer Berg.

Then we're planning to play some acoustic sets in parcs and other outdoors locations and organize our own events. Right now i'm looking for an acoustic bass in order to be independent from amps.
Watch out!

Valeron & the Coconuts live at Kaffee Burger, tuesday march 2nd

We're looking forward to play at Kaffee Burger (famous for the "Russendisko") next tuesday.
We will start on time at 9 pm and hope to see you there!

News july 09

sorry for those who've been visiting the blog the last days i was quite busy with my projects:
The first complete gig of my band "Valeron & the Coconuts" (www.myspace.com/valeronmusic) at Madame Claude in Kreuzberg was a great success: lot of fun, fantastic atmosphere and very positive feedback, felt good :-) more gigs to come soon, looking forward to it.






I also started a job as "location scout", spotting nice cafés, bars etc in Kreuzberg and taking pictures which is actually quite fun, i dicover new places and get to practice to take pictures inside..






















can't leave you without any architecture, it's been a while:


Beisheim Center at Potsdamer Platz, Architekturbüro Hilmer & Sattler und Albrecht 2004



Ullsteinhaus Tempelhof, Eugen Schmohl 1925-27

Coconuts Concert / LaFraise Fashion Show at Galeries Lafayette

This week was very exciting for me: on wednesday i had my first appearance on stage with my band (Valeron and the Coconuts) We were pretty satisfied and got very encouraging feedback. looking forward for our first full concert on 14th of july.



On thursday i was lucky to take pictures at the Fashionshow of LaFraise.com at the Galeries Lafayette Berlin. Great show, great evening!