Label Manager - Stereographics

David McTague

February 9, 2022September 6, 2017 by Pascal

LES ESSENTIELS DE DAVID MCTAGUE

1. Record & Guitar.
A record. A guitar. Music. Magic. They’re here to symbolise music as an integral part of my life.

2. Bag.
My mobile office. I carry this pretty much everywhere, and it certainly contains a few essentials. This particular specimen is a few years old now, and hails from Marrakech.

3. Flat cap.
I call it my flat cap but I think it’s technically a ‘newsboy’. It’s brown corduroy and I wear it a lot.

4. Ashtray.
This is something I’ve just had for ages. Pretty much since leaving my parents house, so it’s symbolic of that I guess. Time has moved on, people have moved on and places have moved on… and this ashtray has been along for the ride. I still use it now and again.

5. Mellowtone flyers.
I had to include them here as I’m always carrying them, and leaving a trail around. In this digital age I think it’s really important that we still retain some tangibles, so we never stopped printing our flyers. We use lots of different illustrators, but always monochrome artwork.

6. Ring.
Many years ago I tried on a ring, that was owned by my girlfriend at the time. A slender, square, silver ring; one that fitted my little finger perfectly. And I didn’t take it off. It was really thin and broke a few years later, so I had it copied using silver from a ring from the Oman my parents had given me. I wear it every day. If for any reason I don’t have it on it feels very strange…

7. Pencil.
I like to write in pencil.

8. Diary.
I like to have an old paper diary.

9. Computer & Phone.
I guess these days they speak for themselves as essentials.

10. Notebook.
An essential for anyone who wants to get anything done, in my opinion.

David McTague
July 2017

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mellowtonerecords.com

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Jean-Charles Dufeu

February 9, 2022July 24, 2017 by Pascal

LES ESSENTIELS DE JEAN-CHARLES DUFEU

Au départ, il y a eu malentendu. J’ai par erreur cru me souvenir que la série s’appelait les Indispensables… avant de réaliser que ça n’avait rien à voir. Les Essentiels. Fichtre. Qu’est-ce qui est essentiel ? Est-ce que l’indispensable est essentiel ? Pas sûr. En relisant les consignes et en y réfléchissant un peu, puis beaucoup, j’ai fini par mettre de côté la discographie de Dylan, le beurre salé et autres choses indispensables de la vie, pour essayer de revenir à ce qui, au fin fond du fond, devait faire partie intégrante de moi, me définir de façon indiscutable. Tout simplement.
Pas facile comme boulot. Merci Pascal.
Mais j’ai finalement trouvé ça…

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La page blanche

Aussi loin que remontent mes souvenirs, il y a eu une page blanche dans ma vie. Enfant, elle occupait un petit coin fuyant de mon imagination. Adolescent, elle s’est matérialisée devant moi, je l’ai même en partie recouverte. Depuis, elle ne m’a jamais quitté, comme une présence quotidienne, elle habite l’antichambre de ma conscience, et je serais tenté de dire qu’elle est ce qui m’est le plus essentiel.

La page blanche ce n’est pas le vide, ni le manque, ni l’absence. C’est le jaillissement à venir, le désir de quelque chose, le préliminaire de l’inspiration. C’est la projection de ce que la création pourrait faire de meilleur. C’est une émanation aléatoire, une goutte d’essence, de soi. C’est finalement ce que chacun veut y voir. C’est un substrat de vous-même ; un reflet fidèle de ce qui vous est essentiel.

La page blanche, c’est l’intention pure, c’est le fantasme de l’oeuvre parfaite, c’est la fulgurance d’un art qui n’a pas été corrompu par sa réalisation. C’est la cohabitation d’un passé et d’un futur, la passerelle entre soi et autrui. C’est la confrontation avec l’intime, le révélateur d’une âme, l’émanation d’un idéal enfoui. C’est “un discours aux asticots” aussi futile à la postérité qu’absolument essentiel.

C’est un dessin à concevoir.
Des mots à écrire.
Le début d’un roman.
La fin d’un poème.
Un bout de partition.
Du travail en devenir.
Essentiel donc.

Jean-Charles Dufeu
Juillet 2017

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Plus d’informations sur Jean-Charles Dufeu
www.microcultures.fr
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Stefan Kassel

February 12, 2022February 5, 2017 by Pascal

LES ESSENTIELS DE STEFAN KASSEL (Marina Records)

If you look real close you can spot a tiny TINTIN figure (left to the MONKEES guitar).
Ahoy from Hamburg!

Stefan Kassel
Janvier 2017

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Plus d’informations sur Stefan Kassel
www.stefankassel.com
www.marinarecords.com

Matt Lockett

February 9, 2022February 18, 2016 by Pascal

LES ESSENTIELS DE MATT LOCKETT

The best things in life aren’t things. I do quite like things though.

Glasses – they help me to see things better. I take them everywhere because I like to see things better.
Record – the objective incarnate of a plan with friends.
Book – Paul Birtill is this country’s greatest living poet. I tell everybody and tell everybody to tell everybody to tell everybody. Paul Birtill is this country’s greatest living poet.
Pen – I like stationery. I love fountain pens. This is a Parker 25 fountain pen which my Dad passed on to me when I started secondary school and still use it every day.
Camera – my first SLR camera, totally mechanical – where physics, chemistry, art and expression collapse in a heap together laughing.
Shoes – desert boots, size 11, square toe, battered and ancient – if shoes could talk…
A note – I like handwritten notes too. I especially like this handwritten note.
iPhone – magic.
Headphones – the National Health Service should prescribe proper “shut out the world” headphones to children. A free pair to every three year old. Seriously life-changing and the path to pure pleasure and fullfillment.

Matt Lockett, b. 1969 in Stockport UK

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Matt Lockett
February 2016

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