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« Un rejet de l’école » : un sondage alerte sur un malaise profond en Charente
Budget 2026 : la partie recettes adoptée après l’échec des motions de censure de gauche et du RN
L’Assemblée nationale a rejeté la motion de censure déposée par la gauche hors PS, en réaction au 49.3 sur le budget 2026. Le gouvernement évite une première chute, avant celle attendue du RN.
Un siècle traversé : Maurice Le Coutour, doyen des Français, est mort
Les listes à Angoulême, ambitions dans le Cognaçais et scénario inédit en Sud-Charente : découvrez les coulisses de la campagne avec « C’est les municipales »
Une étudiante charentaise bientôt en mission humanitaire au Togo lance un appel aux dons
La Roussinoise Niora Vogelzang, étudiante à Poitiers, part en mission humanitaire au Togo du 28 février au 26 avril. Elle lance un appel aux dons pour soutenir son projet.
Roullet-Saint-Estèphe : Emmanuel Pichon prêt à prendre le relais de Gérard Roy à la mairie
« On hausse le ton » : comment la diplomatie française contre-attaque sur X avec French Response
Au Japon, un avocat punk lance une plainte climatique historique
Des auteurs de BD exposent dans sept bars d’Angoulême, lors du Grand Off
L’association Les Crabes à la mer accroche planches, illustrations et portraits dans sept bars d’Angoulême.
Ari Lennox: Vacancy review – the R&B sophisticate’s loosest and most fun outing yet
(Interscope)On her third LP, Lennox balances jazz-soaked tradition with flashes of unruly humour and a surefire viral hitAri Lennox is one of contemporary R&B’s premier sophisticates, preferring a palette of lush jazz, soul and 90s hip-hop over the more genre-fluid sound pushed by contemporaries SZA and Kehlani. But a few songs into her new album, Vacancy, she makes it eminently clear that tradition and wildness can coexist, with fabulously sparky results: on Under the Moon, she describes a lover as “vicious / Like a werewolf / When you’re in it” and proceeds to howl “moooooooooon” as if she is in an old creature feature.Vacancy, Lennox’s third album, is far and away her most fun, and if it isn’t quite as ingratiating as her 2022 Age/Sex/Location, it makes up for it with canny lyrics and an airy, open sound. Cool Down is a reggae/R&B hybrid that practically feels as if it is made of aerogel, and which pairs its summery lightness with witty lyrics telling a guy to chill out. On Mobbin in DC, she pairs lounge-singer coolness with withering come-ons (“You know where I be / This ain’t calculus / No ChatGPT”), while the strutting Horoscope, with its hook of “That boy put the ho’ in ‘horoscope’,” is as surefire a future viral hit as I’ve ever heard. Continue reading...
Havergal Brian: The Gothic album review – Ole Schmidt tames a vast, eccentric score
LSO/Schmidt(Heritage)A 1980 live recording reveals the Danish conductor’s assured handling of a colossal symphony – a balance of architectural clarity and gothic extravaganceHavergal Brian has often been looked at askance, his vast gothic symphony approached like climbing Everest – merely because it’s there – rather than taken seriously as a milestone in 20th-century British music. For the 150th anniversary of the composer’s birth, the Heritage label has brushed off this 1980 BBC live broadcast from the Royal Albert Hall under Danish conductor Ole Schmidt, the fourth recording of the complete work to enter the catalogue.Written over eight years and completed in 1927, the work was inspired by the magnificence and eccentricities of the gothic age, Brian’s idiosyncratic response ranging from guileless melody to wickedly complex polyphony. The 35-minute part one is a persuasive three-movement symphony all on its own, but it’s the challenging, hour-long setting of the Te Deum that demands the listener’s concentrated attention. Influences include Bruckner, Berlioz and Sibelius. Continue reading...
