Something is happening—it’s cold (or too hot) in the world / word is starting to get out, as Brigitte Fontaine was already singing or warning us—and we’re not going to keep running a network of exchange and broad sharing, like The Bridge, while pretending that nothing is happening. The fact is that entire swaths of the “cultural sector” (and that’s not even the worst of it) are collapsing one after another into “the icy waters of selfish calculation,” as Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels once sang. It’s no longer worth the effort to work under the increasingly appalling conditions imposed on us by the economic situation (they talk of weak growth, persistent inflation, considerable budgetary pressures, debt, debt, debt…). First and foremost, we must put an end to this world’s pathological obsession with economics.

Until then, we’ll do two more tours—big or small—and then we’re off: one in the Chicago area in November, and another in France in January and February. And, amidst a cloud of smoke: two upcoming compilation albums on The Bridge Sessions, thanks to our friends at Rogue Art; an art book by Elsa Noyons and Gabriele Stera to be published by Éditions MF; a documentary series directed by Hugo Massa; and another music film in the works…

We hope that what we have inherited—a certain mindset, a certain way of doing things, almost a philosophy—we have, in turn, passed on since 2013 and will continue to do so through 2027. No matter what happens, the cycle of transformation continues.