Charlotte Adigéry (Adigery)

Obsessed doesnt explain it well. Been playing on repeat for hours. It’s by the soulwax guys. Film is awesome too.

https://afropunk.com/2020/03/charlotte-adigery-is-the-future

great interview

It is my duty to point out to all of you even remotely interested in Charlotte Adigéry that since a couple of weeks she's got her own weekly, two hour radioshow at Belgian StuBru. And my, does it bang! Her track selection is crazy good imo. Best thing is, she collects all the tunes she plays in this spotify playlist, updated weekly after the new show.

excellent! i like that she has 'blue pedro' on her playlist, i am all aboard with that

charlotte post to ilx

not only 'blue pedro' but 'shades' (my sadly-elsewhere-ignored #2 of 2020) and a load of other great stuff! tbf you only had to hear her EP to work out what a broad and careful listener she is

Yeah, she's brilliant, and a great companion as a dj. Probably the only linear radio time slot I follow religiously rn, every Sunday eve, she's the best.

Are the shows available on a listen-again stream anywhere? I tried and failed to find them on the website.

Seems the latest show is linked here, but I don't know if it's geo-restricted for you, or if it stays there for long (there's only one afaic)

Thanks!

Unsurprisingly she has great taste

revived the Old School Afropop thread because of this

not sure if we've discussed it, but her one-track guided meditation album is interesting

Live show for Wales' Gwyl Festival (filmed in Antwerp rather than Cardiff)

https://www.bbc.co.uk/events/emb5q9/play/p097xvvn

Awwww, thank you!

New single

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_D0X4Z90B8o

this is great, she's getting so good at counterpoint

that string part completely makes it

Happy St. Patenipatrick's day!

Has her Studio Brussels show finished? The playlist's not been updated for a few weeks now

Yeah, seems like the last one was March 28, according to www.stubru.be. Too bad, I was really enjoying catching up with those every Monday.

Awwww, thank you!

― Chewshabadoo, Sunday, March 7, 2021 1:22 PM (six months ago) bookmarkflaglink

otm

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v22LdFl4Sa8

longer version: https://charlotteandbolis.bandcamp.com/track/thank-you

Oh weird they’re now credited as Charlotte Adigery and Bolis Pupul. Always thought of them as a duo anyways…

astonishing how she's yet to put a foot wrong, this is excellent

"I prefer my first EP too!"

Ouch!

yeah Charlotte if you're reading, sorry about that, I stand by that opinion but it's not like anything you've done has been less than exceptional, love you x

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ccmFd3wE_8

album Topical Dancing in March, can't wait

They really need to come up with a punchy band name because "Charlotte Adigéry & Bolis Pupul" just doesn't roll off the tongue.

'Pupery'?

Another banger obv (although Thank You was a slightly less successful subtweet-the-critics effort than, say, Algiers' Can The Sub Bass Speak) (this criticism may ofc be included in Thank You 2 lol)

love them, so excited for this

I agree that "Charlotte Adigéry & Bolis Pupul" is way too long. Adigéry + Pupul would have been better.

Pupéry isn't a terrible suggestion tbh.

"Charlis"

So good

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XaajTBCFRNw

she's awesome

no surprise to anyone but I think this album is excellent

even though you get subtweeted at the end :p

this is sounding very good yes obv

her lyrics are finding new levels of impudence, there have been involuntary chuckles

I'd forgotten.

This sounds terrific.

glorious album

'Hey' is a choooooon

Every record we release on Deewee is special to us because they’re born out of our genuine friendships with the artists but we have to admit we feel a little extra pride to see Charlotte & Bolis, two individual great talents and human beings - whom we’ve had the pleasure to introduce to each other literally within the walls of our studio - grow into this powerful duo and see their debut album TOPICAL DANCER which we made with them over the course of the last few years, come out today

Damn this is great

As noted in the 77, I think these guys are some of the most vital and enjoyable artists making pop music right now

Their songs are outrageously, baldly political protest music with intelligent and clever lyrics and yet they’re also all bangers. The degree of difficulty there is super high.

I find the humour and personality of this does so much more for me than the straightforward didacticism of eg Sault

^ding ding ding

I have had this on repeat, loving the punchy sparse production and as mentioned earlier, there are some great witty lyrics in there. Favourite album of the year so far.

Agreed. I need that debut EP.

https://www.arte.tv/en/videos/101309-003-A/charlotte-adigery-bolis-pupul/

Finally got 'round to this - loved it, and hit replay the minute it stopped. Truly inventive and off-kilter dance music with no shortage of earworm melodies, big beats, and creative flourishes. Love how many different ways they use vocals! A+ sequencing, too.

top three of the year imo

Lots of highlights that I keep coming back to. "Ceci n'est pas un cliche" and "Mantra" stand out -- the latter gives me New Order vibes.

- me every time I open this app. pic.twitter.com/Sv0UVf8Jhj

— Rob Milton (@therobmilton) December 21, 2022

wondered how she performed that live, that's awesome

I finally figured out what this record reminds me of and had to bring it here cause no one outside ilm would get the reference but the Lindstrom & Christabelle vibes are strong

One of the late listens of the year for me.

As I mentioned to the friend who urged me to hear it, it does a very, very savvy and charming way of expressing sentiments that pop music usually is too didactic when it wants to make the same points.

live in Glasgow yesterday it felt like superstardom is in the post. It was in the top 5 wildest audience resctions I've ever seen, so much so that she was rendered speechless a couple of times by how loud the crowd were. Such a great performer (Bolis too).

well-deserved - it was a fantastic show. I was concerned that I would be disappointed after seeing them in a tiny venue last year when they killed it and was wondering if they would manage to bring that energy to a massive festival tent but they really knocked it out of the park. Two of my pals had never heard them before and came away raving about how great it was. stirmonster the whole weekend was brilliant actually :)

also not to objectify anyone in a way but I spotted Bolis in the crowd dancing later on and he really is just an incredibly handsome man, they both just ooze star quality and charisma

They’ve been working hard to get there, they’ve been performing live pretty much every odd day.

The Bolis solo album is ace. Mix of deeper home listening cuts and full on club bangers like this one


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k7E9ZsGrK5E

Yes - was discussed briefly elsewhere, loving it

Video to Completely Half is great. Strong Wong Kar Wei vibes

Saw Adigery and Pupul live the other night - really excellent. They're great and charismatic performers of course, but what really stood out was how propulsive and thumpy the arrangements were over big speakers in a live setting. The sense of dynamics, especially in the lead-in to what were effectively drops, was really kinetic. The vibe of the way the songs would move in between pop songs and dance tracks reminded me unexpectedly of the last two The Knife albums (not a point of comparison I would have thought of previously).

Yeah, they make the most sense live for sure, not that the recording are bad of course.

Man, really need to catch them at some point. Pretty sure they've played here and I missed it (though that could have been a festival date)

saw them at Desert Daze in 2022, if that's what you're thinking of, was a great set, she was amazing live.