After immediately asking Micachu & The Shapes to come and play a couple of tracks at the home of Claire de Rouen we knew it would be miraculous if the session were not at least interesting. Claire’s history is fascinating, she is a character of captivating proportion, similarly Micachu is completely absorbing, she has an intrigue that engages you, her charm is so humble and honest that one senses there is a creativity and intense thinking running as a constant in her mind. We arrived at Claire’s place to shoot using a tiny very unobtrusive camera. We wanted to be able to move around, nothing cumbersome to get in our way and also, as much as we could, we did not want the results to be conscious of having a camera and sound equipment thrust into the faces of those being filmed. As well as trying to lose the awkward behaviour created by a camera, we had to overcome the fact that ‘Micachu & The Shapes’ were pretty blissfully unaware of what they were arriving into.
Claire de Rouen meets Micachu session appears in full on the Dvd in this issue.
