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

News june 2010

I'm working on a new album with Jules Etienne. The Project is called "Minivague" and we have been recording around a dozen of songs over the past weeks. Some of them are almost finished, you can find 2 demos here
It's electronic, experimental and darker than what you might have heard from me so far. More to come soon.

Jules Etienne and the Monsantos continue to be busy, we played a great gig at Basso Gallery yesterday with the lovely Cocteaux. Here are some photos from Steev and Neda.




The next dates for Jules Etienne & the Monsantos:
19th june - Lagari, Neukölln
21st july - Ä, Neukölln
4th august - Schokoladen, Mitte (with Martin Tetzlaff)

some other projects in the pipeline like concerts and festivals in Hamburg, recording in the studios of Deutscher Rundfunk, all still to be confirmed..

French singer/songwriter Initials DC put the "song of steve and jaime" on his myspace, a song he recorded with Jules Etienne at KottKott-Studio featuring me on the bass. Check it out, it's a fantastic Ohrwurm!

Selters

Selters, originally uploaded by Jules Valeron Photographe.

Rummelsburg

Rummelsburg, originally uploaded by Jules Valeron Photographe.

DSC_9026, originally uploaded by Jules Valeron Photographe.

Futuro 13

Futuro 13, originally uploaded by Jules Valeron Photographe.

Radio and Concerts

Yesterday Jules Etienne was invited to Unsigned at Radio Fritz so we went to Potsdam/Babelsberg to play some songs. It went pretty well and we hope that a lot of people heard it and will support us, for example by coming to the gig
tomorrow at Zur Möbelfabrik, Brunnenstrasse 10, Berlin Mitte.
Here's the recording from the radio Show:

Jules Etienne at KenFm - Fritz Radio 18.04.2010 by julesvaleron

Here are some photos from our sunday-excursion:










And on saturday we will celebrate 1 year of Coconuts-Power.

Approximately at the same time last year we had our first rehearsal with today's lineup: Sandro, Jules Etienne, Valeron and Vera. We had some great concerts that summer before Vera went to discover the world and left us boys back in Berlin. Fortunately she came back a few weeks ago and we are happy to play our reunion-gig coming saturday (24.04.) at Beakers, Prenzlauer Berg.

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!

New Website

After weeks of trying different templates i have finally found a simple solution to create my new, personal website, JulesValeron.com.
You will find new photo-portfolios, the Coconuts-CD and photo-prints to buy, concert dates and much more.
I will also put up some unreleased demos regularly, most of them results of jam-sessions with Jules Etienne. Starting today with "Connexion" from march 2008.
I will continue with the Blog, which will be more for the news, reviews, previews and so on, the website being more static.

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!

Vernissage at West Berlin Gallery 06.03.2010

The Vernissage for my Foto-Exhibition "Cuba - The Sunny Side of Socialism?" at West Berlin Gallery was wonderful!
I spent an excellent evening with family and friends. Received a lot of positive feedback for the photos and even sold one off the wall to a Hollywood producer.
The Coconuts-gig went fine and I am very happy that our former bass-player Vera has decided to play again with us.

The exhibition is still on another week (until the 21st of march)!

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!

Jules Etienne live at "Ä" in Neukölln on wednesday

As some of you might already know i am playing bass and singing in my friend and fellow Coconut Jules Etienne's band. Together with Yanneck aka Quarion, who's playing the pianet and is my heavenly-voices-choir-partner, we are performing Jules Etienne's lovely folk-songs that melt the coldest heart.

Please have a listen at his songs and if you are in Berlin next wednesday, february 24th, come and see us play our notorious acoustic performance at "Ä", Weserstrasse 40, Neukölln.

cheers

Jules Valeron

Exhibition approaching

The final phase before my Photo-Exhibition at West Berlin Gallery has started.

The press-release has been sent and I picked up some posters yesterday, you might see some in the streets of Berlin soon, especially in Mitte.

I'm busy preparing the photos for print and repeating with the Coconuts. We will also be playing on the 2nd of march at Kaffee Burger

Jules Valeron

Debut-CD "Horizons Nouveaux" out now!

The Debut-CD by Valeron & the Coconuts is finally available on CD !

It's wrapped in a nice digipack with a drawing by french designer JessX, and as you can see the retro-feeling is emphasized by a vinyl-look.

It contains 12 fantastic songs with a lot of hits such as Garlic in the Pocket, ChatLala and Zanzibar, all songs played and recorded by myself and Jules Etienne at KottKott-Studio Berlin. Finest Beach-Flavoured PopMusique spiced up with proper drums, organs, trumpet, violin..

We will be selling them mainly at the concerts (10 EUR), the next shows coming up are on
march 03 - Kaffee Burger
march 06 - West Berlin Gallery CD-Release-Party, Concert and Vernissage

My Photo-Exhibition has been moved by one month and i'm now preparing the first highlight of 2010, i'm very excited about it, hope to see a lot of people around, proper invitation and more infos soon.

If you'd like to purchase the CD and can't wait til march, mail me, i'll gladly send you one (+2.- portage).

Note that for the time being it's limited to 100 copies.

Love

Jules Valeron

Photos for sale on seen.by

Some of my photographs have been accepted by renowned photo-site "seen.by"and i am very delighted about that because they have a really high standard and the photos are really affordable, starting at 12.-. Check it out!

CDG

CDG, originally uploaded by Jules Valeron Photographie.

Snow

Karl Marx Allee in Wintertime