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IN PHOTOS: The 2015 Stella Polaris festival

The annual chill-out festival Stella Polaris treated thousands of electronic music fans to a day of sunshine, good vibes and cool tunes on Sunday in Frederiksberg Park.

IN PHOTOS: The 2015 Stella Polaris festival
The 2015 Stella Polaris festival in Frederiksberg Park. Photo: Sheryl Oben/Survey Bee
The Stella Polaris festival, which began in 1997 in Aarhus, is designed as a mix between an all-out party and a relaxed day in the park where attendees are entertained by a line-up of DJs that include top names in the chill-out and downtempo genres such as Kelela, Jimmy Sommerville, Museum of Love and Lulu Rouge. 
 
 
“Speakers are strewn across the grounds, wrapping their electronic blankets of dubby and jazzy slo-mo sounds round the dark green August trees and the thousands of happy people, sunbathing in the grass, dozing off in bean bags or picnicking on chequered blankets,” organizers write on the festival’s website
 
Stella Polaris has now expanded to a four-city tour, with stops in Sønderborg, Aarhus, Kolding and Frederiksberg. Photographer Sheryl Oben from Survey Bee was at the festival’s final stop and shared these photos of the action. 
 
Click through on the photo below for the full gallery. 
 
Photo: Sheryl Oben/Survey Bee
Photo: Sheryl Oben/Survey Bee

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New songs mark sixth anniversary of French star Johnny Hallyday’s death

Fans of the late Johnny Hallyday, "the French Elvis Presley", will be able to commemorate the sixth anniversary of his death with two songs never released before.

New songs mark sixth anniversary of French star Johnny Hallyday's death

Hallyday, blessed with a powerful husky voice and seemingly boundless energy, died in December 2017, aged 74, of lung cancer after a long music and acting career.

After an estimated 110 million records sold during his lifetime – making him one of the world’s best-selling singers -Hallyday’s success has continued unabated beyond his death.

Almost half of his current listeners on Spotify are under the age of 35, according to the streaming service, and a posthumous greatest hits collection of “France’s favourite rock’n’roller”, whose real name was Jean-Philippe Leo
Smet, sold more than half a million copies.

The two new songs, Un cri (A cry) and Grave-moi le coeur (Engrave my heart), are featured on two albums published by different labels which also contain already-known hits in remastered or symphonic versions.

Un cri was written in 2017 by guitarist and producer Maxim Nucci – better known as Yodelice – who worked with Hallyday during the singer’s final years.

At the time Hallyday had just learned that his cancer had returned, and he “felt the need to make music outside the framework of an album,” Yodelice told reporters this week.

Hallyday recorded a demo version of the song, accompanied only by an acoustic blues guitar, but never brought it to full production.

Sensing the fans’ unbroken love for Hallyday, Yodelice decided to finish the job.

He separated the voice track from the guitar which he felt was too tame, and arranged a rockier, full-band accompaniment.

“It felt like I was playing with my buddy,” he said.

The second song, Grave-moi le coeur, is to be published in December under the artistic responsibility of another of the singer’s close collaborators, the arranger Yvan Cassar.

Hallyday recorded the song – a French version of Elvis’s Love Me Tender – with a view to performing it at a 1996 show in Las Vegas.

But in the end he did not play it live, opting instead for the original English-language version, and did not include it in any album.

“This may sound crazy, but the song was on a rehearsal tape that had never been digitalised,” Cassar told AFP.

The new songs are unlikely to be the last of new Hallyday tunes to delight fans, a source with knowledge of his work said. “There’s still a huge mass of recordings out there spanning his whole career,” the source said.

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