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I wanted to let you know about dynamic artistic duo that had just made their way to Japan from Switzerland for a brief stay.
Meet film + music makers Florence Bujard (aka Flo) and Joelle Bacchetta. The duo are in fact a couple and have for the past two years managed their own independent artistic unit, Koïlab, established as a vehicle for their film/video and DJ projects.
※The artistic unit Koïlab: Florence Bujard (left) and Joelle Bacchetta.
Some TW readers may recall Flo's name from somewhere... as a matter of fact, she covered TW's Queer Spots in Belgium back in October 2008.
Each of the two has been to Japan repeatedly - part of their Japanophile creds. This time around, they've come to film a portrait of lesbians in Japan - a project which they are producing out of their own personal interest. They've been interviewing women and girls active in the Tokyo "L" scene, as well as ones they've just run into! We'll post more information on that later.
On New Year's, at the stylish girls only bar Motel, Flo took up the DJ table just after the strike of midnight - from 12:30 to 4:30 am - and set the floor on fire with her mixes. Her sets are laden with electronic and 80's New Wave beats and her selection added a playful, queer European vibe to the room.
※Flo mixing at the stylish girls only bar Motel.
Flo's sound was a perfect match for the MOTEL interior - and it was enough to make you feel like you'd been transported into one of Europe's own super-cool queer events.
And there were two songs that were so nostalgic and made me particularly happy to hear, that I'd like to introduce them here!
One is the tune "Le Troisieme Sexe" by the 1980s French New Wave band Indochine. (The colossal French DJ miss kittin's remix of it, that is.) This tune is, just as the title suggests, a queer delight for its especially alluring take on the mysterious androgynous beauty of "masculine girls and feminine boys".
The other tune is "Voyage Voyage", one of the greatest released by the attention-grabbing French vocalist, Desireless, in the late 80s. She was known for her androgynous look and for refusing to reveal her sex, causing her to be known as "the singer without a sex, cloaked in a secret".
