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On Friday 7 june 2019, Contretemps festival invited deux  Pop bands at L’Espace Django (whose september programmation is now available ) : Mildlife & Le Mauskovic Dance Band!

Mildlife,  Australians, begin with  psyché keys, bass riffs, then floating keys (their 70ies  floydian rock side, but more reasssuring   by the contant grooveof Tom's bass, then drum, and then it grooves more, rickenbacker guitar rickenbacker staying hypnotic and angelic voice of the keyboardist! Soft funk!

An air of already heard in the krautrock but revitalized  in a dancing more festive way and less glaucous (i read it was "NO WAVE" or OLD not COLD, more sea WAVES  immémorials eternals,  than NEW WAVE) keeping the space planantes shared between the instrumentists!

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Aspeeder and exotic tempo (a certain  Gilberto Gil tropicalism in « Todas Menina  Bahianas »

or Al Jarreau's  « Roof Garden » guitar groove in « Breakin’ Away »!

« The Gloves Don’t Bite » is speeder soliar live than on the album. Why would gloves bite us in spring? But i adore this melody!

Contretemps volunteers are yet running, jumping and dancing everywhere in blue for boys or pink for girls t-shirts this year (but i suspect them to have produced  more less blues than pinks to force some boys to be pink by gay militantism!), except Laura in blue , we're not by Bolsonara (his education minister wants boys in blue, and girls in pink)!

Suddenly flippant red lights like by the Floyd at  Syd Barrett period in club at their beginning  à l'UFO Club en 1966!

The guitarist has a vocoded voice and something of  Adam and the Madams who is in the public like his acomplice Cyprien!  Keys descent in vertiginous wave, then suddenly rises as a bird the surprise whistle of a flute played by guitarist! With the bass grrove, it makes « Return to Forever » (whose name would correspond to their name: middlife between past and future! Except the name is miLdlife!). Guitarist scats with a pedal effects playang like Peter Frampton!  

The keyboard player is a sonic magician, able to grippers and waves!

And when the guitarist takes his flute for « How Long Does It Take ?», we don't get high far from  « Just a poke » of Sweet Smoke that would'n't have smoked the flag! I told them, they don't know this band!

The  langueurs of rock 60 70  with constant bass groove are more actual! I admit they make me love pop again, these australopithecuses  from out of space, out of the 90ies valiumised depressives/ angry shouting young peoples that disgusted me of it! No presentation between the titles , a change of rythm or lights (white at this moment)! The guitar has an extraordinary liquid sound when played psyché with  rising on Pink Floyd's on the « Dark side of the moon »!

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The bass removes energy in the final, as guitar and keyboard go running through the « Strawberry fields »in a « nothing is real » liquidity!

Here is « The Magnificent Moon », my favourite  Mildlife song, more solar played live than sur disque, sung  by the guitarist sampled by the keyboard to prolong it! This song even had the honours of Gilles Peterson!

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It's my favourite  compo for slow but groovy beginning  and melancholic drawling voice of the keyboard player  with hypnotic bewitching sound shapes!

The guitare makes « magnificent moon » rise in the sky on the slapped bass's crests, than keyboard, and their grooviest song!

The keyboard player is just excellent  in high shapes, the diffracted ones and various sound textures on OB-6 keyboard  with maybe a modulator!

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There s even Flower, a girl i used to draw more than 20 years ago! 

And another girl dances jumping back on the bass!

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The high played like the Beatles guitar makes a little Chris Réa's  «Joséphine » or more « On The Beach » on the bass, 90ies sunny funk!

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The drum is behind, but gives an efficient groove or exotic pulsation!

It's the last date of their tour! The last title goes on « Shaft » bass  from Isaac d'Isaac Hayes alias « Black Moses » blaxloitation but once more goes futher or elsewhere  with  guitarist vocoded voice as Daft Punk's « Around The World », it's the most rythmic title a few steps from Door's « Love Street »  but one more mixed with another thing, and good bass guitare duo! On very long titles, they're good at melting atmospheres, textures and influences!

The guitarist's instrumental flute solo of « How Long Does It Take? », well groovy but once more multi-textured and stratified by different  the instruments then top grrovy bass on keyboards in liquid loops!

We're not far from Jethro Tull  in the flute!