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Now It's Yours - Double EP - out now !
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Now It's Yours is a Double EP gathering the a collection of 4 songs, and 3 unplugged versions crafted during the 2020 winter lockdown. Available on all major platforms. Spotify : https://cutt.ly/ilbQeY0 Apple Music : https://cutt.ly/7lbQQUO Deezer : https://cutt.ly/nlbWpik |
Not My Show
I had the chance to play an exceptionnal show with Sofar Sounds last year, and they filmed one of my new songs called "Not My Show".
It's probably the next song that will be recorded, hope you'll like it.
It's probably the next song that will be recorded, hope you'll like it.
Music Video for Out of Sight is on Youtube !
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Thanks to a beautiful team of people who worked on this, I'm very proud to show my 1st music video. Shot by Max Bandicoot and edited by Amelle Rose, it features friends and band members playing along the track. And ultimately, that it exactly what the song is about : staying in London because of all the great people I've met along the way. So here it is, I hope you enjoy it as much as I do ! More news coming soon, and next single is cooking... |
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So a few months ago, I played this show in the most incredible venue I've played in. St John's church in East London.
Lots of people came, I had the best time ever, and I didn't want to pick which songs I wanted to put online. So I uploaded the whole set on Youtube ! If you've missed it, or want to see it again, or want to hear how it sounded, or want to hear my new songs (pretty much all of the material I've played is what I'm going to record next and that most of you haven't heard as it's not anywhere online.). Also, for once, I played a cover, of the amazing Damien Rice. If you wonder who's the amazing band playing with me, they are Brian Grogan, Lin Hamami, Jona Old and Mónica Viñoly. |
Wondering what the new songs sound like ?
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Thanks to the awesome Max from Go Out of Tune I got to shoot a live session of my new song "Now It's Yours". Shot in St John's Church in Hoxton, and helped by the beautiful backing vocals from Brian Grogan ! Enjoy ! |
The "One Night Stand" EP is ready !
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So, on Saturday the 8th of July at night, we did it.
We stayed in a studio for 12 hours without having any idea of what we were going to record while coming in. We started writing songs at 6PM. We were aiming for 3, songwriting was going well so we did 4. Out of anything I've done so far, this was the most fucked up concept I aimed to carry, and it turned out to be the greatest time I've had collaborating, writing, and recording. I can already tell you that I already love the songs, and that stuff like what happened on that Saturday is the reason why I play music, and the reason why I came to London. I had ABSOLUTELY no chance to get these songs finished in so little time without the amazing people that came along for songwriting, playing, singing, filming, and engineering the whole thing. Ben Murphie, Brian Grogan, Mónica Viñoly, Jona Old, Charlotte Algar, Lin Hamami, Michael Griggs (Waratah Records), Antoine Cumin (ACFilms), and Jessica Thomas ! You can hear everyone's touch in the songs already, and I can't wait for you to hear what we've done ! As a surprise, I'm unveiling today the EP cover, made by the awesome Pierre Baines ! As a second surprise, I can tell you that the EP should be out on Sunday the 6th of August ! Thanks for everything, Adrien |
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The next EP is on the way, and I need you !
1 night in the studio
3 songs
Many musicians
1 EP
1 big behind the scenes video documentary
Nothing prepared, written, composed before getting in the studio
It is a huge creative process that I'll be going for with a big team of talented people.
To finance it though, I just lauched a crowdfunding!
I NEED your help, and you'll be able to follow the night, and get cool rewards for participating !
Read everything from here and get involved :
FR : https://www.kisskissbankbank.com/fr/projects/easymess-one-night-stand-concept-ep
EN : https://www.kisskissbankbank.com/en/projects/easymess-one-night-stand-concept-ep
THE EP IS OUT !
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Finally, "Hermione's Bag" is out on any legal streaming and download platform !
Bandcamp : https://easymess.bandcamp.com/releases Also look for it, and find it on ITunes, Spotify, Deezer, Tidal, Apple Music, Amazon, Google Play, Napster, and more... |
Also available on any legal platform.
Come and check it out on Spotify ! |
Hermione's Bag, my debut EP will be out on the 27th of March.
Artwork by Jessica Thomas (Picture) and Inès Chtouki (Editing).
I'm releasing an EP !
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This is it ! I recorded a 6-songs strong EP !
The name will come out soon, the songs featured in too ! For now, it is mixing time ! After a lot of open mics and a gig at Betty's Coffee in Dalston, I got to talk with the amazing Michael Griggs, producer and sound ingeneer for his recording studio : Waratah Records. So I decided to record my first EP with him ! He has an amazing studion in North London in which I spent 3 days recording. We worked a lot on it, on the arrangements, the sound, and I recorded everything my myself, guitars, bass, drums and percussions ! It will be a great mix of my influences, even if the main color of it will be folk, I tried to include some darker bits, bluesy parts, vintage guitars, soul snare sound, so you'll find wha you want I'm pretty sure !! I can already say that it will be the best thing you will hear from me until now, and I'm really proud of it, even withou having heard the final product after mix and mastering. You will have some news, teasers, extracts very soon I hope, and I'm pretty sure you are going to love it ! For the rest of it, I'm still doing open mics, and preparing my trip to Ireland, from the end of February ! |
13.11.2015 - About Paris Attacks
I feel now able to go with my little word about the tragic events that took place in Paris last week-end.
The idea of giving my opinion on that sounded a bit selfish in my ears in the first place, but when I think about it, this is why I write music. It's about feelings, opinions, love, hate, incomprehension.
So last Friday, ISIS, aka Daesh, took over French Capital with guns and bombs as their only arguments to kill 129 people, and injure way more. It is a senseless, heartless, and unimaginable barbaric acts. They came up with the same type of act with bombings in Beirut, Lebanon just before doing it in France.
All my thoughts go to the families and people who knew the victims, and every single person that has been touched in a way or another by this terrorist attack. This is a tough time for humanity, and democratic countries just realized how war can get to us in a flash, even if we know there is a thread. So France is sad, and even the lucky ones who were not direct victims of the attacks, did take a bullet in their usual way of life. We are scared, but we try to stay proud, and moving, and living. We are hurt, but we want to fight, with our own weapons, our culture, our history. We want to go to concerts, get drunk in terraces on Friday nights, go to live sport events, meet people, and love, more than we ever did.
When we heard the news, that feeling of being afraid was so strange, because we realized that there were no targets anymore, that was not even a misreading of a holy book, that was a simple ideology of terror, exported by assholes who don't care about shooting Catholics, Muslims, Jews, atheistic people.
Terrorism has no religion, it has no skin color. Still, it has something particular: it is not human anymore. Before getting to music, I DO INSIST on making the difference between the peaceful religion that is Islam and the inhuman Extremists, that should not be called Islamic State, but only "terrorists". I had another debate with someone that could not get that difference into his brain, so PLEASE think about it.
Yesterday, 3 days after the attacks, I got back to playing music. I cried enough, worried enough. And I feel like if music and culture in general is our main weapon, it is our turn to use it. So I went to an open mic night, where a lot of musicians come to play two songs of their choice.
I usually choose my songs in function of how I feel. But these days, you, French people know that, we hardly get to think about something else more than 10 minutes in a row. So I read a text that my sister who lives in Paris sent me. It is an article about Friday nights in Paris (http://www.slate.fr/story/109923/paris-attentats-vendredi-13-novembre-2015).
Then I sang Imagine, by John Lennon, trying to get to the end of the song without showing the tears rolling on my cheeks. People looked at me so sadly, they hugged me, we talked a lot after that. That was all I could do that night. Now, my turn to get back to what I'm here for. I will play music louder, and gather people to my shows, because this is what our lives are about. Not about fearing the first extremist heartless cunt that wants to blow himself up into a crowd.
Be brave, be what you want to be, not what they want you to be. Don't be afraid to cry if you feel like crying, but don't be afraid to smile if you feel like smiling.
We keep our peaceful thoughts for families and friends of the victims, of Paris and other conflicts in the world that don't get that much attention. But still, we keep living.
Peace,
Adrien
The idea of giving my opinion on that sounded a bit selfish in my ears in the first place, but when I think about it, this is why I write music. It's about feelings, opinions, love, hate, incomprehension.
So last Friday, ISIS, aka Daesh, took over French Capital with guns and bombs as their only arguments to kill 129 people, and injure way more. It is a senseless, heartless, and unimaginable barbaric acts. They came up with the same type of act with bombings in Beirut, Lebanon just before doing it in France.
All my thoughts go to the families and people who knew the victims, and every single person that has been touched in a way or another by this terrorist attack. This is a tough time for humanity, and democratic countries just realized how war can get to us in a flash, even if we know there is a thread. So France is sad, and even the lucky ones who were not direct victims of the attacks, did take a bullet in their usual way of life. We are scared, but we try to stay proud, and moving, and living. We are hurt, but we want to fight, with our own weapons, our culture, our history. We want to go to concerts, get drunk in terraces on Friday nights, go to live sport events, meet people, and love, more than we ever did.
When we heard the news, that feeling of being afraid was so strange, because we realized that there were no targets anymore, that was not even a misreading of a holy book, that was a simple ideology of terror, exported by assholes who don't care about shooting Catholics, Muslims, Jews, atheistic people.
Terrorism has no religion, it has no skin color. Still, it has something particular: it is not human anymore. Before getting to music, I DO INSIST on making the difference between the peaceful religion that is Islam and the inhuman Extremists, that should not be called Islamic State, but only "terrorists". I had another debate with someone that could not get that difference into his brain, so PLEASE think about it.
Yesterday, 3 days after the attacks, I got back to playing music. I cried enough, worried enough. And I feel like if music and culture in general is our main weapon, it is our turn to use it. So I went to an open mic night, where a lot of musicians come to play two songs of their choice.
I usually choose my songs in function of how I feel. But these days, you, French people know that, we hardly get to think about something else more than 10 minutes in a row. So I read a text that my sister who lives in Paris sent me. It is an article about Friday nights in Paris (http://www.slate.fr/story/109923/paris-attentats-vendredi-13-novembre-2015).
Then I sang Imagine, by John Lennon, trying to get to the end of the song without showing the tears rolling on my cheeks. People looked at me so sadly, they hugged me, we talked a lot after that. That was all I could do that night. Now, my turn to get back to what I'm here for. I will play music louder, and gather people to my shows, because this is what our lives are about. Not about fearing the first extremist heartless cunt that wants to blow himself up into a crowd.
Be brave, be what you want to be, not what they want you to be. Don't be afraid to cry if you feel like crying, but don't be afraid to smile if you feel like smiling.
We keep our peaceful thoughts for families and friends of the victims, of Paris and other conflicts in the world that don't get that much attention. But still, we keep living.
Peace,
Adrien
Official Music Video for Colombia ! (by Laura Michelard)
This is what I had been waiting for so long. My first music video, a real media ready to share, and who reflects the music and the words of that song.
I really appreciate any single person that helps me sharing and spreading this song around the world !
So yes, that song is bout establishing a true image of what that country is. They have the worst image possible abroad, whereas it's a wonderful place, full of wonderful people. It's an astonishing culture, and a way of life I had never seen anywhere else. What I really want people to understand is how important it is to fight the ideas society gives you on some places, or some people. If travelling is the best way to be more open-minded and understanding with different cultures, my trip was a proof that travelling is also the best way of knowing what's really going on in other parts of our crazy world before listening what ignorant opinions are saying about it.
I really appreciate any single person that helps me sharing and spreading this song around the world !
So yes, that song is bout establishing a true image of what that country is. They have the worst image possible abroad, whereas it's a wonderful place, full of wonderful people. It's an astonishing culture, and a way of life I had never seen anywhere else. What I really want people to understand is how important it is to fight the ideas society gives you on some places, or some people. If travelling is the best way to be more open-minded and understanding with different cultures, my trip was a proof that travelling is also the best way of knowing what's really going on in other parts of our crazy world before listening what ignorant opinions are saying about it.
Getting to London
I did it, I escaped from my french life to get into something I didn't know. Many people, many places, many pubs, many artists, adorable people, weird ones. I try to play as much as possible, to meet people, to record some songs, play in the street, and give you as much news as I can. I really appreciate the support I have now, and I'm preparing some good tunes just for you !
Official audio for Colombia
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Before releasing the actual video, made by my good friend Laura Michelard, this is the official audio version of my song "Colombia". Enjoy, and wait for the video, COMING SOON !
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Playing for ears, and not for eyes.
I am one of those guys who think that you always have to work on your sound, your music, your lyrics, more than on the way you look on stage, and everything that goes around the music. But the fact is, if you have the opportunity to see an artist live, it is not only to hear how he sounds when he's singing/playing in front of you, it's also in order to feel something else when you see him play, and to be able to have a clear image of him doing his job in front of you.
Last week-end I played two shows in bars. One in Lyon, one in Bourgoin-Jallieu. Here's what happened. When I got there, I settled, I got there, but I settled inside, because the barmen were not allowed to play music outside because of the neighborhood, the cops, etc. So I was like "fine, let's play there" ! But whereas there were quite many people on the terrace outside, people just didn't come in. Why? Because they didn't like it? No, but they wanted to smoke, to chill out, and they just didn't pay attention to what was going on inside, because they could hear me. And that was all that mattered. They heard what I was doing, and it was good enough to be their background music. When people came in, they would eventually stay a couple of minutes, like for a song or two, and just enjoy it, before getting back outside.
After the show, I felt kind of depressed, of having played for a couple of dudes just hanging here, while the others didn't get what was going on inside, buf I finally heard from people outside, that they were enjoying it, they liked it, it was "cool" ! So well, if I can serve, good, but if that's what live music is used for, maybe ther's no point, because if the audience is not in front of you, you can use a CD.
So I understood 2 things :
Last week-end I played two shows in bars. One in Lyon, one in Bourgoin-Jallieu. Here's what happened. When I got there, I settled, I got there, but I settled inside, because the barmen were not allowed to play music outside because of the neighborhood, the cops, etc. So I was like "fine, let's play there" ! But whereas there were quite many people on the terrace outside, people just didn't come in. Why? Because they didn't like it? No, but they wanted to smoke, to chill out, and they just didn't pay attention to what was going on inside, because they could hear me. And that was all that mattered. They heard what I was doing, and it was good enough to be their background music. When people came in, they would eventually stay a couple of minutes, like for a song or two, and just enjoy it, before getting back outside.
After the show, I felt kind of depressed, of having played for a couple of dudes just hanging here, while the others didn't get what was going on inside, buf I finally heard from people outside, that they were enjoying it, they liked it, it was "cool" ! So well, if I can serve, good, but if that's what live music is used for, maybe ther's no point, because if the audience is not in front of you, you can use a CD.
So I understood 2 things :
- Music can be appreciated on many forms, even if the best way for the artist is to have people in front of him. But people are not musically interested enough if they don't know you to go seeing you directly.
- The best solution would be to the artist to get and play outside. But bars are getting more and more annoyed by intolerant neighbors, and they actually can't do anything outside. Nowadays people buy flats in front of a bar, and then complain about the noise. This is how it works, and then how we kill live music. The only tolerated live acts outside are festivals, and half of them are closing for political reasons, what a strange era for music...
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