After landing on the scene with his first Sound Pellegrino release “Isla Dub”, and exercising his unique combination of war drums, electromechanical symphonies and earth sounds on such highly respectable labels as Tigersushi and Discobelle, gaining the respect of peers such as Hudson Mohawke, Martyn, Laurent Garnier, Joakim, Modeselektor and many more in the process, […]
The ambitious creation of Parisian multi-instrumentalist Pablo Padovani, Moodoïd’s psych pop songs know no borders in time or geography. The son of cult jazz player Jean-Marc Padovani and guitarist for Melody’s Echo Chamber, Padovani’s psychedelic terrain is one evoking the spirit of Tropicalia’s exhilarating experimentation, the fractured-pop tropes of Connan Mockasin, and the freedom of […]
Estère is a girl with an MPC she calls Lola. She produces all her own songs with Lola, mostly at home in her pyjamas. Estère plays/records a mixture of bass, synth, drums, guitar,vocal harmonies, keyboard, whistles, claps, kazoo, desk tapping and anything else that might take her fancy then layers her production with pulsating rhythms […]
“Bernard Fèvre is not a legend from the past he is a pioneer of the music of tomorrow“. Better known as Black Devil Disco Club, Bernard Fèvre was a French Italo disco pioneer during the 70’s. His 1978 LP ‘Disco Club’, “a lost classic of Italo disco” according to Fact Magazine, was reissued in 2014 […]
Lena Deluxe could have been raised next to the Mexican-American border, first heard alongside the Rio Grande, or plugged in her first guitar down under the Brooklyn Bridge. However, Lena Deluxe comes from Northern France and her universe, unlike the red bricks of her Lille Metropole, is inhabited by the same solitude as the pioneers […]
Peter Solo is a singer and composer born in Aného-Glidji, Togo, the birthplace of the Guin tribe and a major site of the Voodoo culture. He was raised with this tradition’s values of respect for all forms of life and the environment. Specific to this region of Africa is the use, during vaudou rituals, of […]
Martin Mey is a French artist influenced by folk music, Radiohead and Nina Simone. Following the release of his EP “Never Go Down” (February 2014), the artist is offering a soulful, hauting, powerful, and poetic album named “Taking Off”. His heartbreaking, uplifting and incredibly music is toped by a unique voice full of emotions that conveys […]
Le Couleur, a trio that, as per Brooklyn Vegan “take elements of disco, electro and francophone styles, add a bit of glitter and voila: an appealing, danceable sound”, is based in Montreal. For the main part their songs are in French and they bring to mind the kaleidoscopic soundscapes of Sébastien Tellier and the energy of […]
