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the 70s). This guy also recorded the score of
Cousteau’s” Le monde du Silence, “something
completely ambient, but sadly, Le Capitaine
Cousteau refused to keep it. It was the tragedy
of his life.”
We obviously wish Zombie Zombie a different
fate, securing a safe place in the modern music
world, which, with such a name, is quite likely
to happen.
The band is performing live a few days after our
interview at the Nouveau Casino, a trendy Parisian
venue, and attracts a large crowd, eager to have
their brains invaded by the shamanistic
incantations of those two renegades. The concert
is sold out. Damn. But for Etienne and Neman,
there’s a simple explanation. “It’s all about playing
live. On stage, we get even wilder than on the
record. It’s more physical, almost animal-like if
you want. We really enjoy watching people losing
control and letting it all go out.”
So it’s now time to succumb and to be consumed.
The lights are turned off. The set begins and the
tension quickly increases. The band has recently
recruited a VJ, named Mikka, who projects on
a big screen behind the musicians a succession
of images, mixing hi tech graphic animations and
sketches of unrealistic machines. Blood runs on
the screen. The effect is immediate. The audience
gets ecstatic in front of such a sonic and visual
downpour. Looking towards the balcony, you can
see the shadow genius, hidden between two sound
engineers, with a devilish smile while playing with
his computer keyboard.
The band mixes with a scientific precision,
electronic and obsessive loops, with a bit of wild
free jazz. A magic potion, and a perverse way to
take the crowd by the hand, hypnotizing them
before leaving them wandering in an unknown
territory, with their ears filled with screams. This
is no longer a gig, this has become a hostage attack
with the Stockholm syndrome at the end of it all.
The band’s energy doubles during the next tracks,
including a bewitching cover of Iggy Pop’s
“Nightclubbing” and finally ends the show with an
orgy of Dantesque keyboards, leaving the audience
in a daze. Clearly, it’s been an attack performed by
professionals, Etienne and Neman can now head
backstage with satisfaction. The fireworks are over,
and I begin to fear that some people among the
crowd might get a desire for fresh flesh, as
situations like these have regularly happened in
the past. So, I decide to discreetly run away, before
it all happens for real… / François Coquerel
Right, the band performing a live concert
with an array of lighting effects.
Left page, Etienne and Neman of Zombie
Zombie. All clothing, Lucien Pellat-Finet
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