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2024 – “THE LOVE IS SONG”

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digital single now available on all platforms

featuring Lesley Woods on backing vocals

2023 – new song/clip:

2023 – Non romanesque expo photos 1974-2000, Maison pour l’Image et la Photographie – BESANÇON

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“Les photos très rock’n’roll de l’artiste...” – L’EST RÉPUBLICAIN, 24 January 2023

2023 – ciné-concert “AU BONHEUR DES DAMES”

7 October, 8:30 pm – LE CHAPEAU ROUGE, Carcassonne
And in 2022:

with Bénédicte Villain, Zoé Hochberg & Delphine Ciampli-Ellis

to hear it and see it

2022 – 11 December – AVIGNON:

photo: ROCKPIX

2022 NON ROMANESQUE

first book of nonfiction – éditions Les Fondeurs de Briques – récits autobiographiques, diatribes, cent photos argentiques faites par l’auteur, dessins de Mosner, CD…

2022 – SUR LE VOLCAN
new novel in French translation – éditions ACTES SUD

BYE BYETHE FLYING FUCKS

2021 – concerts – THEO HAKOLA and the WOBBLY ASHES:
– 2 October – Balloon à la Mimo – RENNES
– 5 June – Fondation Jan Michalski – Montricher, SWITZERLAND:

2021 – concerts Theo Hakola w/Bénédicte Villain for release of restored version of Patricia Mazuy’s “PEAUX DE VACHES” (1989 –music T. Hakola w/Passion Fodder):
– 26 November – cinéma Studio 43 – DUNKIRK
– 3 September – cinéma La Baleine – MARSEILLE
– 30 August – cinéma Reflet Medicis – PARIS

2020 – concerts:
– 16 October – w/Wobbly Ashes – Centre Culturel de LESQUIN
– 23 October – w/Wobbly Ashes – Centre Culturel Jean Gagnant, LIMOGES
– 26 September – w/trio – Médiathèque Marguerite Duras, PARIS

2020 – new single/clip – “SO BAD

2020 – WATER IS WET

album CD: Microcultures vinyl: Médiapop digital: everywhere

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2019 – concert – 18 October:

2019 – scored reading: DRACULA – Dans la veine de Bram Stoker
with JACQUES BONNAFFÉ
– 13 December, Paris (La Maison de la poésie)
– 25 September, Correspondances de Manosque

2018new video for an old tune – in English & French versions:

THE PIG SONG / LA PESTE PORCINE

“The peoples furthest from civilization are the ones where equality between man and woman are furthest apart.” – Mark Twain (1895)

“Quand les hommes bougent, c’est une émeute.

Quand les femmes sont présentes, c’est une révolution.

Libérez la femme et vous aurez la liberté.” – Kamel Daoud (2015)

2017 – lecture en musique/scored readingIDAHO BABYLONE

with Dominique REYMOND, Bénédicte VILLAIN and Simon TEXIER

1 July – FESTIVAL INTERNATIONAL DU ROMAN NOIR – Frontigan
9 April – FESTIVAL LE PRINTEMPS DU LIVRE – Grenoble
2017CHICO MARXISM – an essay on factophobia written in the wake of the Charlie Hebdo, Bataclan and July 14th attacks in France (and in the shadow of the 2016 U.S. elections) – published in French by La Règle du jeu – can be downloaded with a click here in English or French

Mrs. Teasdale to Chico: “But I saw you with my own eyes!”
Chico to Mrs. Teasdale: “Who you gonna believe, me or your own eyes

2016IDAHO BABYLONE

new novel in French translation – actes noirs/ACTES SUD:

interview on French radio: Paso Doble-FRANCE CULTURE

2016 – I FRY MINE IN BUTTER!

all covers album: CD and double vinyl – Médiapop Records – and digital download

and for three of the fifteen femme-qui-danse videos created for this album:
“BOURGEOIS BLUES (updated)”“SAINT LOUIS BLUES”“HEROIN”

  2016 – THEO HAKOLA and the WOBBLY ASHES – 14 OCT. POINT EPHÉMÈRE, Paris

photo: Jérôme Brody

  2015 – Salman Rushdie, 7 January:
“Religion, a medieval form of unreason, when combined with modern weaponry becomes a real threat to our freedoms. This religious totalitarianism has caused a deadly mutation in the heart of Islam and we see the tragic consequences in Paris today. ‘Respect for religion’ has become a code phrase for ‘fear of religion.’ Religions, like all other ideas, deserve criticism, satire, and, yes, our fearless disrespect.”

And on that note, a new video for an old song: “NOWHERE”

  2015 – lectures en musique/scored readings:
<> “La Ballade de Carson Clay – or Stendhal goes to Idaho”
d’après La Valse des affluents
with Noémie Dujardin, B.Villain, Sébastien Pouderoux, T. Hakola, Raphaèle Bouchard – Grenoble, Bobigny…
excerpts: PART 1, PART 2

<> “La Route/Kerouac” with Jacques Bonnaffé (T. Hakola guitar and piano)
– Manosque, Grenoble, Paris, Toulouse, Bobigny, Rosny…

<>“Lazare, mon amour” (Sylvia Plath/Gwenaëlle Aubry) with G. Aubry (text, voice), Leopoldine Hummel (voice), Maëva Le Berre (cello), Bastien Lallemant (guitar, voice) T. Hakola (piano, voice)
– Bobigny, Saint-Valery-en Caux, Manosque, Lille, Paris…

2014concert album

  2014 –– concert: THEO HAKOLA & the WOBBLY ASHES – 30 years after PASSION FODDER’S first noise and 60 years after Theo Hakola’s…
12 DECEMBER – POINT EPHÉMÈRE – Paris – ALIAS-PRODUCTION

  2014 – lecture en musique: “Le Scandale Arthur Cravan” with KATE MORAN and LOUIS-RONAN CHOISY – 15 March, Maison de la Radio /FRANCE-CULTURE – to hear it: PODCAST
  2013lecture en musique: “RAKIA”
w/ DOMINIQUE REYMOND – Dijon, Clameur(s)

2013THIS LAND IS NOT YOUR LAND double vinyl release

2012THIS LAND IS NOT YOUR LAND digital release

CD on sale in France and in USA at Alternative Tentacles webstore

THE ONLY CHURCH
THIS LAND IS NOT YOUR LAND
THE WEST IS DEAD
ILMARINEN’S LAMENT
FOX NEWS IS MY MUSE
recorded with Hakola’s live band THE WOBBLY ASHES: Bénédicte Villain (violin), Tatiana Mladenovitch (drums), Laureline Prod’homme (bass) and Matthieu Texier (guitar) Released on vinyl by Les Disques du 7ème Ciel

*DOWNLOAD THIS ALBUM’S LYRICS
**FRENCH REVIEWS OF THIS ALBUM
***INTERVIEW HAKOLA IN NEW NOISE

2011

2011 – RAKIA

éditions Intervalles

  2011 –  ciné-concert:The Wind” by Victor Sjöström (1928)

  2010theater and music, festival NANTERRE SUR SCÈNE
  2009 – “Le Chant des âmes” – at the Finnish Institute in Paris
une lecture en musique based on Le Sang des âmes and created by the author. With Aléxia Monduit, Mélanie Couillaud, Sandrine Dumas et Bénédicte Villain. April 23rd, Institut finlandais – Paris

2008 – LE SANG DES ÂMES

éditions Intervalles – Hakola’s third novel completes his “Blood Trilogy”

2007 – DRUNK WOMEN AND SEXUAL WATER

Fourteen songs, 79 minutes of music and no filler featuring B. Villain, Brice Pirotais, Cyril Bilbeaud & Lionel Dollet + guests Warren Ellis, Alexandre Margraff, Laureline Prodhomme, Aka de Kebnekaïze & Simon Texier download lyrics of this album

2007 – LA THÉBAÏDE de Racine

2007ORCHESTRE ROUGE
RCA (Sony-BMG) released, in France, Orchestre Rouge’s Yellow Laughter (1982) and More Passion Fodder (1983) on CD as double album