Combo Daguerre Live at the Symphony Space NYC 11/13 (CANCELLED)

Music that sounds like Serge Gainsbourg trying to write his 1960s French pop while living in Colombia, and perhaps being a little high on ayahuasca.- WNYC (NPR)

Show Cancelled

Symphony Space, Thursday November 13
https://www.symphonyspace.org/events/revelry-combo-daguerre

“Conan sings in French with the timbre and worldly wit of a latter-day Leonard Cohen”

Who is Combo Daguerre?

Combo Daguerre performs all original French language chanson with a mostly Latin crew and a hybrid style informed by boleros, cumbia, 60s rock, French music and 1930s surrealism. It is music filled with joy and darkness, deep grooves and dirges, nostalgia and futurism. 

The combo is named after Daguerre, one of the inventors of photography, as well as the name of a street in the 14th arrondissement of Paris, steps away from where bandleader Olivier Conan grew up – a street lovingly documented by Nouvelle Vague filmmaker Agnès Varda.

While the music is very much rooted in Brooklyn’s cultural hodgepodge, much of the lyrics deal with the ghosts of the past and the toxicity of nostalgia, with touches of surrealistic humor that ensures than none of it be taken too seriously. All songs are written in a French battered by decades of expatriation and peppered with oblique references to France’s pop and literary past.
 

Band Members

Band members are all active on New York’s rich indie Latin scene (Tipa, Tipo, Banda Chuska, Locobeach) and come from Peru, Colombia, Puerto Rico, Venezuela – and Cajun country. All share a transplant’s vision of the world and its culture, giving the French language compositions a deeply cosmopolitan flavor. Combo Daguerre is: Adele Fournet (keyboards), Felipe Wurst (guitar). Andres Fonseca (drums), Neil Ochoa (percussion), Dan Martinez (bass, and Olivier Conan (cuatro and vocals).