The World Festival – The World

series” exile Islands “(4/12)

Fakarava is a drop of turquoise and fluorescent water in the Pacific . Here, in Polynesia, they say it is the capital of the Tuamotu archipelago. A 450 kilometers east of Tahiti, seventy-eight islands draw a constellation of coral atolls surrounded.

Far from everything, Fakarava ( “the beautiful ring,” paumotu in dialect) is a narrow strip of white and pink sand, caught between the tranquility of the lagoon encased his flippant coconut palms and waves of the great ocean. 16 square kilometers of land area and 800 souls preserved urbanization float like a dream on a blue monochrome which comes in all shades and out of sight.

In search of new colors, Henri Matisse would have dipped his brush in the aquamarine ink. In search of a new planet, this is Antoine anchored to wet Banana split, the yellow catamaran.

Odysseys

For more than forty years that he set sail for odysseys around the world and he sails with the water on postcards. Born in Madagascar, Antoine had a traveling childhood, in the wake of his father. He will study engineering and out of Central, a diploma in guitar case.

As a fan of Dylan, Donovan and the Stones, the summer of 1964 is a beatnik adventure on American roads. The following summer, after a tour of Europe by hitchhiking, he released his first song, European Highway No. 4 . In 1966, Antoine is a psychedelic phenomenon that detonates the land of pop music. long hair …