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...with its estimated 18 million inhabitants, is a transportation nightmare the likes of which my spoiled Swedish brain cannot even begin to wrap itself around. I'll start getting mad at "the city" when it takes 20 minutes to take the train across town, but who do you get mad at when there are millions of busted down old Toyotas and overloaded scooters between you and the other side of the city? Apparently, if you're Filipino, you don't. You just take whatever car you've got, rip the roof off it, then flip the roof over and graft it to the back to double your carrying-capacity and call it a bus. This healthy attitude toward open-car surgery is what spawned the Jeepney and made it a mainstay of Manila's dusty network of roads. Wherever you are in the city, all you have to do is wave and one'll stop for you. They're the perfect blend of a taxi and a bus and they are really fucking cheap.

...2010. Et dès le 18 janvier 2010 en digital.Toujours enregistré avec Renaud Letang (Feist, Manu Chao, Peaches, Jamie Lidell...), toujours porté par cette pop glamour, aux mélodies simples et touchantes, Honky Tonk se pare désormais d’arrangements plus complexes et groov