Ray Raposa lives in Portland as much as he lives anywhere else—he’s a bit of a nomad, apparently. But his project, Castanets, has a show coming up this Tuesday, Feb. 26th at Valentine’s. Meanwhile, French-tastic videoblog La Blogothèque has posted some new Castanets footage. Some of it dates from a year ago, but some is much more recent.

You can always hear Raposa’s restlessness in his music, but it’s another thing to see it in front of you, as he saunters through the city streets, outside cathedrals, up flights of stairs. It’s been said before, but La Blogothèque is really onto something. They take an idea that you’d think would result in the most forced, stilted kind of performance. But seeing Raposa walk and wander, with his guitar and voice echo off city walls and occasional passers-by, it seems absolutely right, and entirely natural.

Go here to see it all.