In 2013, François and Louis Moutin have created a new band: the MOUTIN FACTORY QUINTET. While they were intensively touring with the Moutin Reunion Quartet both in Europe and in the USA, they have spent 4 days in a studio in Paris with this new quintet. The very first performance of the Moutin Factory Quintet […]
Eric LEGNINI – Piano; Clovis NICOLAS – Double Bass; Jeff BALLARD – Drums Playing in New York at Smalls on January 13, 2014 for French Quarter Jazz Sing Twice! The title says it all. This play on words is a particularly good description of Eric Legnini’s career. Sing twice, think about it ! It is all […]
Genre: Electro, Indie, Rock Eternal unshaven kidults playing hide and seek at the frontier between the organic and the synthesis, the three boys in COLT SILVERS create their own intense sound, made of bright pop intervals and silky electronic layers, spangled here and there with angelic voices. After an incandescent debut album that led them to […]
Cevennes, France – Monday, August 29, 2016 – Not a day sooner could Piers Faccini have penned the 10 songs featured on his latest full-length studio recording, I Dreamed An Island (Six Degrees Records; October 21, 2016). Writing in real time as history unfolds and observing the troubled world in which we live, the British […]
Genre: Rock, Blues, Beats Heymoonshaker are the unlikely pairing of two art forms that are decades apart: Grit-your-teeth, raw, blues guitar and expansive, heart-pounding beat-boxing. Urbanizing blues music now for nearly 2 years, Andy Balcon and Dave Crowe are extremely talented at their craft but what impresses most and has made their commitment to Beatbox […]
Noura Mint Seymali, step-daughter of the legendary Dimi Mint Abba, has emerged as a nationally beloved star and one of Mauritania’s foremost musical emissaries. Composing for an ensemble of traditional instruments – ardine (harp), tidinit (lute), t’beul (bowl drum) – and fortified by western bass and drumkit, Noura performs a hybrid of traditional and modern […]
Gesaffelstein (born 1985 as Mike Lévy in Lyon) is a French techno artist and DJ. He has worked alongside, and remixed tracks for such artists as varied as Tiga, Miss Kittin and Lana Del Rey. He produced two tracks on Yeezus, the sixth album of American rapper Kanye West, including the lead single “Black Skinhead” […]
Brazilian born cellist and vocalist Dom La Nena released her debut album, Ela (Six Degrees Records), in January, 2013. Ela is a stunningly intricate and understated collection of thirteen original compositions, sung in Portuguese and Spanish. Dom’s delicate vocals and multi-tracked cello on the album are supported by spare, minimal arrangements by co-producer and label mate Piers Faccini, with textures that fall somewhere […]
