June 21 in Vladivostok on the territory of the embankment Sports

June 21 in Vladivostok on the embankment of the Sports Marina will host a festival of music». Celebration of music appeared in France at the initiative of the Ministry of Culture in 1982 and are currently in 120 countries every year on June 21 the summer solstice. Vladivostok will be the second time to celebrate this event, and especially for this in our city came to the French duet Scotch & Sofa, acting melodic acoustic French chanson with elements битбоксинга, or as they characterize their style musicians, «urban folk». At a press conference held today, 19 June, in the small hall of the Primorsky Regional Philharmonic society, the collective of musicians talked a little bit about yourself and your work and answered questions of journalists. - We are called style, in which we play, «urban folk», - has shared with the present guitarist Romain Pres. - Vocals Chloe gentle, sensual, it is part of the style of «folk»and my music in which there are elements of rock and hip-hop (битбоксинг) - represents a more rigid part, something «urban». Musicians also told about choosing the name for your group: «by calling them Scotch & Sofa (letters. - Whiskey and Sofa - approx. Ed.), we tried to Express the environment where should listen to our music: lying on the couch with a glass of whiskey in his hand». Despite this, the musicians love to act not only in the chamber atmosphere, and on open grounds: according to them, it's a challenge, along with that comes another feeling of the music. Act and they are usually two, but sometimes resort to the help of session musicians. To create the illusion of multiple instruments, Romaine brought to Vladivostok восьмиструнную guitar. «The idea is that, by combining the game on a guitar with битбоксингом, have effect as if, plays a drum set, and two guitars. It's a very special to me a guitar and I play it only with Chloe», said Romaine. The music for my songs Chloe and Romain write themselves, and the texts of times composes the third member of the band - Celine, teacher of French and German languages. «In our songs we try to balance the importance of words and music,» said Romaine. The traditional question, as they spend time in Russia, said the vocalist of Chloe Монен: «I think the guys will take advantage of this opportunity to drink Russian vodka, and I hope to lead dolls and some hat». Recall that the duet of Scotch & Sofa will take place on the territory of Sports Promenade 20 June at 1900.

Maria Pisarev, Igor Рачихин (photo), RIA «VladNews»