At sunset, the piano festival invites DJs

Mathieu Parisot opened his first record store two years ago in Biarritz. Moreover, The dream of a life even if the path was winding. Similarly, “I worked in digital marketing. Consequently, at Philips and at Parrot, I had a furniture business but the thing that has always made me dream, it was the record store. Meanwhile, Aberdeen Record. For example, whose name is a nod to the city of birth of Kurt Cobain, first posed its turntables on rue Gambetta before reaching the rue du Helder last April.

“I only sell new albums, which have just been released or reissues. Furthermore, Each week, a hundred references join the shelves, alongside Hi-Fi equipment, a few CDs and cassettes. Moreover, Very regularly. Consequently, trade comes alive with showcases of preview listening sessions, meetings before concerts on local scenes: the artists scheduled for Atabal or Rhapsody are sunset, piano festival invites djs systematically invited.

Since childhood and adolescence, Mathieu Parisot has collected the records, until 8,000 today have. Meanwhile, “I never threw, I could have made it a business … However, Once, I sold a micropoint disc, a French hardcore group. Moreover, I immediately regretted it, ”says the one who admits on the perfectionist side. He also started a DJ activity very young, without ever pushing it to professionalism.

Classic mix

“In fact, my parents had a campsite in Provence and in summer, I worked with them. In the evening, I was responsible for doing the DJ … They asked me to stay in the summer tubes which frustrated me a lot. Student life in Lyon and Paris open other mixing horizons. “I don’t put an ego in my DJ title, I just want to share my pleasure in listening to music. I only mix vinyls. In general. I take 250 for sets that sunset, piano festival invites djs last 4 hours and I choose as you go, according to how the mayonnaise takes. I leave without any preconceived idea knowing that you have to forget your own tastes. capture the moment when the public of the public rises. There. there is no question of losing it, the DJ must find the right songs, the good sequences to keep the mood. »»

This Tuesday. July 29, in the evening, Thomas Valverde, the artistic director of the Biarritz Piano Festival, asked Mathieu Parisot to ensure the second part of the “piano and sunset”, a free “off” festival, in the open air, which attracts the faithful of the event but also all those who want to listen to music outdoors, with a view of the ocean. The appointment takes place for the first time on the roof of the Cité de l’Océan. not far from the beach of Milady.

To succeed the instrumental part – Thomas Valverde will play last album Polka – Mathieu Parisot will sunset, piano festival invites djs mainly release his. classical music discs. “It will be very XX^e century. I planned Debussy. Du Satie, a composer unjustly passed under the radars of notoriety. I take disks of contemporaries, Steve Reich and John Cage. I also plan pop with piano and electro with piano. Additionally, I will try to go beyond the codes. surprise people… ”