Paul Loiseau // Release Party - EUROPA

Sydney Koke at Bal Chavaux

Le Bal Chavaux and Croux Records invite you to the release party for Paul Loiseau's debut album.

‘The past and the future collide on a debut album that is a true UFO: ‘EUROPA’, singular in form, collective at heart. Paul Loiseau should never have existed, any more than the violence of the world that shaped him. Paul Loiseau sings a dystopia that has become reality, a seismograph of a declining world, set against glam guitar solos, noise loops and a Balkan brass band. He scores the soundtrack to the film of our lives at the height of ten years of Macronism, in a Schengen area that stinks of fascism. An album that plays like a free fall into an epiphany of madness, where freedom comes at a high price and perversion no longer has any limits. Single-handedly, he invents a new kind of post-modern, apocalyptic French song for the cannon fodder we all are. Touching, sincere, idle, heroic, nonchalant and ambitious, cinematic and working-class. A tragicomic, exuberant bit of channel-hopping that gets us dancing and makes us reflect on stories that usually make us cry.’

Clio Kepenos

Paul Loiseau will perform ‘EUROPA’ live in a new configuration. The evening will be punctuated by drag performances from Sexy and Depressed and Grand Gaillard. You will be guided through the evening by the great Bonnie Banane, through the raw and singular worlds of Das Kinn, Zonbi and Slaylor Moon.