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SOKO NEWS Last updated 20 May 2012

• AUGUSTINE was reviewed by Neil Young of THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER. He said this about Soko's performance:

"Soko...compellingly underplays an individual awkwardly caught between girlhood and womanhood by her physical traumas. She certainly confirms the promise that saw her nominated as 'Best Female Hope' at the 2006 Césars (for Xavier Giannoli's In the Beginning), holding her own against the avuncular, ever-observant slyness of the vastly more experienced Lindon, himself a four-time César nominee."

• New cover of I THOUGHT I WAS AN ALIEN by Christy Regina of Indonesia.
• madmoiZelle.com reviewed BYE BYE BLONDIE on 10 April. Here is what they said about Soko's performance:

"The young Gloria and Frances are, above all, children of punk. The singer Soko, is great in her role as the teenaged Gloria. She perfectly embodies the sadness of a misunderstood kid who just wants to quietly listen to Motorhead. The scenes in the mental hospital are the most successful in terms of emotion and realism...each of these scenes sweat punk energy and passion for life. Personally, when leaving the cinema, I had a desire to drink Heineken while bellowing on the Parabellum."

• Russian-born Israeli actor Ania Bukstein plays Vera in the soon to be released Soko film FRIENDS FROM FRANCE. She is best known for playing Irena Kovlova in the Israeli TV series THE ARBITRATOR. Below is a clip from one of Bukstein's other film appearances (I don't know which).
• Soko is finishing videos for the songs DESTRUCTION OF THE DISGUSTING UGLY HATE, and WE MIGHT BE DEAD BY TOMORROW.

Soko: scheduled performances:

• DOUG FIR LOUNGE,
  Portland, Oregon (11 June)
• THE TRIPLE DOOR,
  Seattle, Washington (13 June)
• BOTTOM OF THE HILL,
  San Francisco, California (15 june)
• MAKE MUSIC PASADENA
  Pasadena, California (16 June)
• FESTIVAL LES ARDENTES
  (5-8 July) in Liege, Belgium.
• LATITUDE FESTIVAL
  Suffolk, UK (12-15 July)
• SECRET GARDEN PARTY
  (19-22 July) Abbots Ripton, Cambridgeshire
• Soko is the voice of Mina and sings the last song in the 2011 Spike Jonze animated short film Mourir auprès de toi (To Die By Your Side).
• On the COLETTE PODCAST #37 (free subscription on iTunes), Soko indicated that these were among her favourite songs:
  • Zumbi - Jorge Ben
  • All The Way - Richard Hell
  • The Stranger Song - Leonard Cohen
  • My Friend - Roy Harper
  • Slow Talkers - Kurt Vile
  • Midnight Voyage - The Mamas&The Papas
  • Party Son - Keaton Henson
• Soko's show at UNION CHAPEL in London was reviewed for livemusic.fm by Edward Scissortongue. Here's a quote:

"Never have I been involved in such an emotional musical event. SoKo cried sporadically throughout, [but] not floods of tears and tissues. She held it together and didn't once break down completely, but she was close to choking on more than a handful of occasions. It was just insane how in tune her performance was with the way my life is unfolding at the minute. Never have I been to a show which summed up my state of being so accurately."

• Boudicca Fox-Leonard blogged a playlist of Soko's favourite songs. Number One on the list is OUTDOOR MINER, by Wire.
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• Clare Considine published an article in THE GUARDIAN, titled Soko, Return of the Teen Chanteuse. Soko is quoted as saying the album is inspired by Daniel Johnston and Leonard Cohen. The album was produced by Fritz Michaud.
• On World Water Day Levi's joined with Water.org to launch an interactive challenge for consumers called "Go WaterLess." The Go WaterLess campaign challenges people to experience what life is like for the billion people without clean drinking water across the globe. Soko, Levi's, and the LA Girls Choir went on a Water Less adventure to Deep Creek Hot Springs in the Mojave Desert to record the video below.
• Soko was on Cerys Matthews show on BBC6 Radio 5 February. As well as being interviewed, she performed two songs. Here is the interview without the music. The complete show is available on the BBC6 website.
• The cover of the February issue of EROSTAR METROPOLITAN e-zine features Soko. The Dutch e-zine also has a short article about her by Deputy Editor Marie Noelle Bauer. I have not yet translated the article.
• In the Woody Allen film MIDNIGHT IN PARIS, Gabrielle was played by Léa Seydoux, who also was Aurore, one of the four friends (Soko was another) in the 2006 film MES COPINES (My Friends). Seydoux will co-star with Audrey Tatou in the film THE FOAM OF THE DAYS, about a a woman who has an illness caused by a flower growing in her lungs. That film is due out in 2013. The FOAM OF THE DAYS cast also will include Vincent Lindon, Soko's co-star in AUGUSTINE.
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FRIENDS FROM FRANCE

• According to Les Films du Poisson shooting of Soko's new film FRIENDS FROM FRANCE began on 1 October and the film will co-star Jérémie Lippmann. FRIENDS FROM FRANCE is set in 1982 when two cousins, Jerome Berkowicz and Carol Brikerman, travel to Leningrad to make clandestine contact with Soviet Jews (the "refuseniks") who face persecution, and have a range of encounters that will mark them for life. It is directed by Anne Weil and Philippe Kotlarski. Producer Kira Saksaganskaya said that the film will be shot at locations in Germany, Russia and Israel, and is a co-production between Les Films du Poisson, Vandertastic and her St Petersburg-based production house, Rock Films.
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• Jérémie Lippman starred as Cristophe Lancelot in the 2009 French TV series 16éme, which was sort of a French version of Beverly Hills 90210.
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• An interview with Soko was published in BRAIN MAGAZINE. It is in French, but here is a bit of what Soko said translated into English:

"I write all the time, I needed to tell stories in a different way, so I started writing in a hyper-prosaic way, not at all organized and without structures. I really have no musical education, musicians with whom I work are pulling their hair because I am always changing tempos in the middle, and using other unconventional techniques. Making music was something I had to do. I never said 'I must force myself to make music,' it's just that I had no choice, I wrote all the time, I typed all night when I could not not sleep until I had written and recorded a finished song. At 8 o'clock in the morning, I could finally go to bed because the song was completed."

• Corey Minagh reviewed the new Soko album on the blog GET INNOCUOUS. He said in part:

"Sokolinski's brutal honesty about failed relationships, being lonely, love that never developed and her pain over failing to make that love blossom is startling for someone so young. Rightfully this album should reach a wide audience and catapult her among the other up and coming young singer-songwriters."

• Amalie and Nanna (@SuperMalle) from Copenhagen tweeted a photo of themselves wearing their Soko t-shirts.
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• DIY published a brief interview with Soko by Huw Oliver. Soko was asked if any particular gig stood out in her memory. Here is how she answered:

"I was in Leipzig, Germany doing a movie and I just posted something on Facebook like "Hey, I'm going to be there tomorrow night. I don't know anyone over here, but would you guys want to come if I played a show? Find me somewhere and I'll be there". And they wrote, "Oh, you could play in that park, by the pond". I agreed, and I asked the director of the movie that I was doing if he wanted to come to see me play a few acoustic songs. When we got there, there were like three hundred people who had come over within only four or five hours. Everyone bought candles and blankets and tea and stuff. It was totally dark in this park. I was playing acoustic with no microphone or anything and it was just impossible. I asked people to raise their hands so I would go and play where there were the most raised hands and I would change location at each song. It was one of those really amazing shows and I played for two hours. I thought there were going to be about ten people there. It was the most beautiful thing ever."

Soko as a Viking. Emanuel of I'm From Barcelona as an Alien. - Debaser, Stokholm.

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