MIGUEL CASTRO – ALEXIS COLLIN ‘LAZY JUNE’

Music that takes its time. Time to blossom – first through the meeting of these two musicians, then through regular musical sessions, drawing inspiration from projects such as the duo formed by Kevin Seddiki and Jean-Louis Matinier and their magnificent album *Rivages*. Time to develop, by trying out each other’s original compositions and then writing pieces for the duo, where each is free to contribute ideas and suggestions.
Time to live and to express themselves.
It is clear that the world we live in, with its frenetic pace and the need to work ever harder, has an impact on our minds and even our very bodies. This purely acoustic guitar and accordion duo project, born out of these uncertain, turbulent times, invites us to take our time and decide what we want to make of it.
In his work *In Praise of Idleness*, Bertrand Russell invites us to reflect on the place of work in our society. ‘We attach too little importance to pleasure and simple happiness,’ he writes. A society in which every individual had more free time would be happier and more tolerant. We might also quote Robert Louis Stevenson, who, in his essay ‘An Apology for Idlers’, describes idleness as an attitude that does not consist of doing nothing, but of doing many things that defy certain dogmas.