While I was in Paris I did a few photo shoots for various music magazines. This one was done at my hotel, La Tour D' Auvergne... > If you want to have a look on her Myspace Hearing Sandrine sing for the first time is the aural equivalent to those eagerly welcomed, spirit-lifting days when a spring thaw arrives, after a long cold winter. The Australian's voice is wise-beyond-her-years: warm in tone, hopeful in feel, and infused with a natural sensuality. Her North American debut album, Dark Fades Into The Light, is the end result of an extraordinary musical, emotional and geographical journey that took her from the rugged Blue Mountain range of Australia to the gentler Catskills outside of Woodstock.

Entering in a new room is always a new experience. You just arrive in a city that you want to discover or rediscover, you hace choosen an hotel and you have your luggages and maybe jet lag if you country of origin is far from Paris. The first impression you get of your room when you open the door is very important. At hotel de la tour d'Auvergne, each friendly room give you immediatly the sensation of coming in your house or in a friend's house. The details are important, the choice of small things specially selected to create a warm atmosphere associated to a moder comfort and the size of the rooms give you an authentic french welcome.

Some people love light and freshness. Others want a more "dark" atmosphere. Some like flowers and cool linen sheets, others love brown materials, white walls or briliantly decorated rooms.  Well, we are all differetn, like different members of a family or like the members of a gig. This is why in hotel de la Tour d'Auvergne, all the rooms are different to welcome different people. Music lovers and musicians are frequently the hosts of this hotel ideally situated near the most famous venues of Paris like La Cigale, Le Divan du Monde or Elysées Montmartre. Aldric Duval has imaginated lovely and colourful rooms for the musicians who come in Paris for a concert and stay in his friendly rooms.  Music lovers and musicians need a kind of space where they feel like at home immediatly.

Imagine that you own a very big house and that you want to have some friends coming regularly in your house. What will you do? First you will decorate the different rooms with furniture and curtains  that you will carefully choose. Secondly you will put that kind of comfort that will please your friends. And finally you will give them some amenities, some nice products like waters or beers from all over the world. That's exactly what did Aldric in his hotel. He has conceived it like a great friendly house to welcome his pals from different countries of the world. The excellent staff welcomes everybody like members of the faily and the atmosphere looks like more as a family house than a  parisian hotel.