SCALDE : voices, electric & accoustic guitars, bass, ukulele, flutes, sitar, piano, harmonium, cythare, glockenspiel, Teisco SP 60, Gem Sprinter 49, Elgam Beat 44, drums, percussions, & programmations.
"Poperetta" live @ Ninkasi Kao (22-04-06) - Venkman Prod / Playprod
"Ravin'" live @ Ninkasi Kao (22-04-06) - Venkman Prod / Playprod
"Vagrancy" live @ Ninkasi Kao (22-04-06) - Venkman Prod / Playprod
"Fear of a fly" live @ Ninkasi Kao (22-04-06) - Venkman Prod / Playprod
Influences
benjamin britten, joao et astrud gilberto, planningtorock, simian, nina simone, james holden, hyperclean, timbaland, annie, camille, goldfrapp, mathieu boogaerts, death from above 1979, joanna newsom, jose gonzales, diving with andy, william sheller, limousine, raymond scott, michel legrand, moondog, the neptunes, grandaddy, hot chip, joni mitchell, blonde redhead, maurice ravel, jose gonzales, andrew bird, serge gainsbourg, gary usher, dinah washington, moondog, emiliana torrini, beatles, margo guryan, joan as police woman, bertrand burgalat, selar, gonzales, king crimson, baxter dury, peaches, white noise, stan getz, andrew bird, mathieu boogaerts, beach boys, kings of convenience, agoria, prefuse 73, DFA, the free design, ditty bops, the zombies, broadcast, juana molina, oomiaq, nico, momotte, left banke, curt boetcher, blind melon, beth orton, duncan browne, koushik, jefferson airplane, shit robot, albin de la simone, françoise hardy, aphex twin, janis joplin, j.s. bach, clinic, a song, donovan, jeff buckley, andrew's sisters, cat stevens, robert wyatt, zongamin, the velvet underground, katerine, nicolas colas, mellow, billie holiday, brigitte fontaine, the breeders, bourvil, sagittarius, midlake, april march, scrambled eggs, metric, polnareff, tokow boys, david crosby, feist, dorian pimpernel, tahiti 80, missy elliott, nick drake, björk, tim buckley, air, millenium, the shins and two or three thousand more
Sounds Like
something between his first album, and his next one. Which would be a mix of all influences listed above...
"Fear of a fly" - video directed by Maïa Roger !!!
SCALDE
At once an inhabitant of the shadows and light, Scalde cultivates his distance. A hyperactive dandy, an obsessive perfectionist on a quest to find the musical Grail that will allow him to turn into notes his concept of the world from his small den by the banks of the Lyonnais Saône. Scalde is a pioneer of songs and sounds, continuously in the vanguard of an agit-pop, out of which he has made his profession and craftsmanship. His work is Poperetta, an album of a dark kind of feverishness, a lo-fi opera fed on electro-organic subtleties, unveiling the dawn-like strangeness of its composer. An album in which the fluttering chorus buzzes drunk around the light of hypnotic loops, where the vocal patchwork, bringing together the sensitivity of Robert Wyatt with the sky-blue solitude of Tim Buckley, haunts the darker depths of Nico, the labyrinths of Terry Riley, or the unexplored mountain tops of Bjork. Like a pocket symphony whose size was once dictated by the limited space from whence it came - a small composition that in the open spreads out its gigantic wings. .
AN UNCLASSIFIABLE STYLIST
It is a hefty task for melody analysts and other mediums of sound to define the unclassifiable atmosphere in which Scalde floats a liberated stylist free of the handcuffs of categorisation. Atmospheric pop, psychedelic folk, lysergic trip hop, or chamber rock - on stage, between famous acts (Blonde Redhead, Matthieu Boogaerts, Tahiti 80, Superpitcher, Troy Von Balthazar, Thomas Fersen, An Pierlé) and international festivals (Primavera Sound in Spain alongside The Pixies, Franz Ferdinand and PJ Harvey), Scalde multiplies his brainwaves and stage formulae. In the shadows, he sews together bits and pieces for a flamboyant hand-sewn costume to be slipped on that of a rock Proteus. At once light years from his studio work, and very close.
THE LYONNAIS MOVIDA
Scalde opens up this art of tailoring to subtle remixes (Agoria, Dominique A, Simian, Tahiti 80...) or to the efficacious productions and arrangements of his fellow artists - Selar, Benjamin Fincher, or Ex-Magnolia. For Scalde is both a figurehead and the Pygmalion of the Lyonnais pop scene. Founder of the record label disques puzzle, and architect of the springboard pop Dandelyon, which over the last three years has been unveiling the too-often hidden wealth of the lyonnais rock movement (Vale Poher, Fake Oddity, A Song, King Kong Vahiné, The Green Olive) Scalde still finds the time, among all these goings-on at the secret service of pop, to transform himself into DJ, giving a punch of vinyl to the already cult Parorama Pop soirées. A mysterious and extravagant moment, nostalgic and sophisticated, from where Scaldes music springs. And to better follow its own course, it flows back to us, over periods of time, to then trickle off further, like a traveling stranger passing through a strange country.
by Stéphane Duchene ( translated from french by Katie Lodge)
alors ces dates? alors ce nouvel appart'? alors on se capte quand? tu me snob parce que MOI je joue pas à Paris... saleté vas! si je te croise je te marave!
Hi Scalde!!! I..m jose, long hairer guitar player, you can see me on pics, pleased to meet you! We saw you on stage, for two times, at LaMode and La Corredera, we met some bandmembers but we did not talk to you. Your concert at lamode was an incredible experience for me, pure psychedelic shit! We hope to see you again! Cheers jose
Avec plaisir, pour le meilleur du plaisir et le plus terrible, le plus délicat, le sulfureux et doux son, souffletant affriolant sexysant ....ai-je dit et qualifié un tel pareil habit de boucle rythme harmonisée, débridée, chaude, caractérielle et intélligible... à bientôt, j'espère Nathalie
Ct ya +/- 4ans ,genre radio campus?Pour moi ct la promo de la semaine de la "mode" et toi celle de ton album, et tu n'avais pas encore de remix à ton actif, ni de DJ set(c bien d'ailleur..) au plaisir! n*
