I just came back from a great week in London. I had to go there to record a few songs for a side project so I took advantage of that and asked my boss a few days off to enjoy the rainy city of squirrels. I stayed at my French-Spanish friends' Olivier and Antonio who were very kind to have me in their living room for almost a week and took care of me the day I was sick. Probably for eating to many blackberries...
Well, on the first day there I met Vadim and Pugs Atomz to shoot part of the video for the song we did together for my EP. As the weather was shit, raining allday, we had to change the plans we had and improvise plans in Vadim's living room with the help of their friend Paz, which turned out to be much fun.
Vadim + Pumpkin + Pugs Atomz (pic by Paz)
Vadim + Pugs Atomz + Paz
I also was able to meet Ty. We had a good chat about our collaboration and decided to organize a video shoot for it. Ty kindly offered to give me a hand to find someone to do the video with in London. let see how it goes. After eating sushis we went for a walk in the center and took some pictures.
We had a great recording session yesterday at Studios Polysonik in Orléans.
Supafuh took care of the recording as usual and Will aka Quiet Dawn joined me at Austerlitz train station in Paris to catch the train together to spend the day working on this song he is producing for my EP. I will introduce to you Quiet Dawn in more details in the next few days.
We are such a good team. We worked hard and had fun at the same time. The track is gonna be called Substance...unless I decide to change it before the release.
Last monday, I met with two nice and very interesting persons in Brussels.
Both have the same name, Julien.
One is the person behind the great LAIDBACK RADIO also new media consultant.
If you want to know more about him, here's a cool interview of him. We met a the Belga Café Place Flagey. This Julien will advice me and help me promote my new EP later on this year.
The other Julien also goes by the name of Veuch. He is amongst other thing a great graffiti artist. We had a couple of drinks and a nice chat at Roi des Belges.
With him we will work on the artwork and the whole image of this new project.
To meet and share ideas with such talented, dynamic and inspiring people give me the energy I need to finish this EP.
The process is as important as the result. It's about meeting people, learning, growing, traveling, sharing and the list goes on and on.
I will be presenting each and every person who collaborates on this EP!
Je suis Cécile aka Pumpkin, artiste hiphop indé au chômage. J'ai 31 ans.
A Paris depuis 4 ans, je suis née près de Brest, au bout de la terre. J'ai vécu 6 ans à Barcelone. J'aime la musique, écrire, la bonne bouffe, Barcelone, le cranberries juice, les rencontres qui changent la vie, la mer, mes potes éparpillés, un bon verre de vin, les voyages et l'humour plat . Je pense avoir été un poisson dans une vie antérieure. J'ai sorti mon premier album: L'Année en Décembre, puis Ainsi de Suite, un beau 33 tours vinyle blanc.
De temps en temps, je partage ici en français, espagnol ou anglais, quelques réflexions sur mes aventures.