Anna Chocola

Richard Tatum  owner of fashion boutique Fruity, in Brighton – UK, has commissioned me to decorate the shop.

My one and only tool was a black marker pen to create this freehand drawing.

I was inspired by Biba aesthetics, Art Deco and Modern Totems.

On the 9th & 10th of July 2010, I was holding a Mullet and Mohican Barbershop at Wattsfest Festival, in Devon. A group of us had organised a Post-Apocalypse Fete area with games, stalls and music. As a tribe from the future we tried to create fun activities from recycled materials. I was inspired by the idea that the sense of community is essential in times of desolation, as individual identity is defined by the group one belongs to. I was offering free tribal haircuts (tribal facepaint was also available) as a way to bring people together through look and style. I also though it was important that our customers could only get radical hair styles at my barbershop, so they were willingly giving up a little bit of themselves to join our group and show some bravery as a kind of rite of passage ritual. Here are the brave:

Grande Buffo is releasing the collaboration track I recorded with artist TM.

Lipstick is a slow and sexy house hip hop track. The release has an extra track, a house remix from The Odd Couple (trick remix). The Single is avaible now on iTunes, Juno and BeatPort (and probably more websites).

Check out the Video teaser for this new release and have a listen to lipstick and the remix on Soundcloud !

Lipstick – TM feat. Anna Chocola from TM ( Thomas Michalak ) on Vimeo.