Back to… Hammock Festival

Last weekend, the Hammock Festival welcomed artists on stages spread over unusual places in Paris. Back on a festival that does not lack energy.

From the cracked walls of the Jacques Decour high school to the roof of the Galeries Lafayette, everything is possible for the Hammock Festival. The French scene is well represented by the festival, which conceives Paris as a showcase for its promising artists. Warming our ears, it is only a question of pushing the new French scene on a family springboard, where the atmosphere is relaxed and friendly. More than a fair, the children twirl in the maze of high school. Hammocks and colorful tables are out, to signify that summer is finally here. If the artists manage to make us forget the rain, we applaud this young festival that has beautiful years ahead of it.

Atypical premises for a bright program

The Hammock festival plays on new French talents, like Adam Naas, a phenomenon that spreads by word of mouth and whose voice continues to surprise. At the dawn of the release of his EP in September, we find all the maturity of the singer, accompanied delicately and simply by two musicians.

When the duo Eléphant arrives on the stage of the Hammock festival, we can only sketch a smile. These two touch us with a pop tinged with electro, full of freshness. Complementary, Elephant ransacks the schoolyard by warming an atmosphere leaden by the rain. The pop in this duo is generous and fun: the set adopts over the titles electro vibes that show the full extent of their musical technique. At the same time, on the roof of Galeries Lafayette, the acidulous pop of The Pirouettes resonates, which also in their own way, revolutionizes the man-woman duo by giving it a touching modernity.

After the family tour, Nach resumes solo service, offering a rhythmic and sincere pop, with beautiful musical flights, all framed by a piano as the pivot of the show. The rain is at the rendezvous but the public is present to applaud the beautiful quartet formed by the musicians of the singer. Inventive and fresh, Anna Chedid delights as much with piano ballads as with titles tinged with an energetic freshness. With a powerful voice and melodies always well crafted, Nach has really integrated the magic recipe of French song.

Then it's up to We Are Match to present a rock nuanced with pop variations. In a set placed in the same vein throughout, we carefully observe the mixture of a raspy voice and electric sounds raised by assiduous guitars. The French band reviews its classics and injects a dose of rock to the Hammock scene.

The duo Housse de Racket , in an assumed mess, ends this day on catchy and colorful sounds, with a desire to end the evening with a smile. Catchy riffs and ever-present drums are in order to appreciate the psychedelic pop of these two Parisians. After a stint at Coachella in 2012, the Frenchies are at the top of pop across the Atlantic.

To end this long musical weekend in style, the high school J. Decour welcomed this Sunday Montmartre, Jean Tonique, Pyramid and Unno for an electro afternoon. Although the rain got the better of the weather, Jean Tonique makes funk and pop sounds resonate to give color to an audience under umbrella. As for Unno, the trio reveals an airy pop to finish with a mystical cover of Sunny, while the powerful voice of the singer reflects the electronic abyss.