Admission is free at the Bingo Club.

Every loss heralds a win.

Martin and Neysa opened the club in the early 20s. Along with Vassili, Inès, Loris, Annelinde, Samé, Marie-Paule, Emile, Sara, and Béna, they’ve created a club where everyone comes to play according to their current mood. It’s a blend of warm voices and original lyrics, built around enveloping melodies and films shot on film in every corner of the world. The music passes from hand to hand, from mouth to mouth.

They sing in French, English, Italian, Chinese, and Spanish. Not just for the love of travel, but because stories don’t always choose the same language to tell themselves. The music, too, transcends borders: soft rock, house, folk, disco, sometimes just a guitar and a voice… nothing is set in stone. Styles blend together without ever feeling forced. What matters isn’t the label, but the connection.

After a debut EP (Separated, 2020), followed by a few songs shared over the course of various encounters, Bingo Club released “Better Lucky Than Beautiful” in 2023. The album found its way to an audience that recognized in this music a unique way of describing the world: gentle, oblique, walking a fine line.

And then, that same year, life decided to remind them who’s really in charge: a little girl was born. Her name is Vega. Two days before her birth, Martin wrote “Départ pour Vega.” It’s a simple song, like all the important things. A song of love and welcome, looking toward the unknown.

From there, a second album began to take shape, slowly, in successive strokes, like building a landscape as you walk. Nothing was intended to be uniform.

The title came next: ‘Bleu Blanc Bingo’.

It is neither innocent nor provocative.

Martin explains it this way: “It’s a play on words, a nod. For years, the symbolism of the French flag has been a subject of debate, but since time immemorial, blue and white have remained primary colors: those of the sky and the clouds, the sea and the foam, the high mountains on a clear day… The album isn’t called Bleu Blanc Rouge. It makes no assertions and doesn’t seek to tell people what to think. Bingo Club aims to be tender, peaceful, and unifying—far removed from partisan debates and ideological divides among human beings. It simply sets out to make people smile, without turning it into a political platform.”

Bleu Blanc Bingo brings together twelve songs written at different times and in different places.

The songs speak of the cycles and transformations of the world (“The Moon Is Shining”), of inner rebirth and rediscovered colors (“New”), of reimagined nursery rhymes and joyful nonsense (“Un éléphant”), of a call to cross over to the other world (“In The Garden”), of gravity and attraction (“Gravity”), of elusive love (“Love Love”), free-flowing thoughts and aimless movement (“Bingo-Twingo”), paths that diverge (“Tu Vai”), spirals as natural journeys (“Circles”), an encounter between rain and sunshine (“Mr. Rainbow”), the impulse of the heart and a departure into the unknown (“Départ pour Vega”), the loss of bearings and a willing embrace of forgetfulness (Wo Bu Ji De Le).

It is a collective album, made up of fragments, voices, and intertwined destinies. Nothing is linear; everything is connected. It moves at its own pace, allowing opposites to engage in dialogue. It is experienced like a musical travel journal passed from hand to hand, or like collaborative sound postcards that someone decided to send to the whole world without a specific address.

On stage, Bingo Club has performed at the Inrocks Super Club at La Boule Noire, at the Douve Blanche festival in Égreville, at the Ici Demain! festival, FGO Barbara, at the label’s Pop Up event, in Maastricht for the Studio Invites nights, at Ground Control, and as the opening act for Mariee Sioux on the East Coast of the United States.

The cyanotype album cover was created by artist Jonas Loellmann