All requests (booking, remix, other) : stephane.viard@gmail.com
Album available @ colette Paris :10/01/2009
Album available on Itunes/BeatPort... : 10/15/2009
Album available in France (Fnac, Virgin...) : 10/26/2009
Album available across Europe : from November to December 2009
Album available across the world : from January to March 2010
Thomas Roussel and Yannick Grandjean are SomethingALaMode,
SALM for the intimate or those in a hurry, an exceptional duet, and I mean it because it is a rare thing to meet classical musicians fed on club culture – musicians just as thrilled by post romantics like Chostakovitch, Stravinski or Fauré among others as by Daft Punk ‘s Homework or Mirwais ‘ Disco Science; musicians who can launch a 2008 techno parade in front of 15,000 persons and the day after play for a happy few at the ICA in London; musicians eager to have their album mixed by Arnaud Rebotini, the dark prince of the dark touch to release it with Yellow, the historic label of electronic music with a French touch flavour.
SALM’s is a story of daring, of desire, and above all of counter-current, the story of two kids whose teenage years were as rhythmically played as a musical score – buoyant week-day hours spent at the Music School (the works : music reading, instrument practice, orchestration), the week-ends spent dancing at the An-Fer – a mythical club in the French history of electronics, the unavoidable venue for Laurent Garnier, Daft Punk, Jeff Mills and other icons of technomusic, an oasis of good music in the desert of Dijon’s clubbing in the 90s.
It is in the Eden of the An-Fer that a 15-year-old Yannick went through his electronic epiphany. It’s there that Thomas (then 18) met Jeff Mills for the first time. He shook his hand then, an anonymous fan in the DJ’s booth. He shook his hand again 12 years later as a collaborator, embarked on the grandiose “Blue Potential” project – Jeff Mills’ classics interpreted by a symphonic orchestra at the Pont du Gard in the summer of 2006. Mills could not believe what he heard but Thomas could : he was the arranger of this exceptional feat.
SALM was born in the wake of this concert, in October 2006, after the two friends had spent years maturing the project in their minds. One night, Thomas, the violinist, recognized for his collaborations in contemporary art, and Yannick, the cellist, first prize laureate of the School of Music, met again… around an old P.C. – caught up again in the sacred fire of “dance” music and the desire to leave the beaten paths of music, whether electronic or pop, a desire to merge all their passions into one, to evoke emotion with a fragile string or the pure sound of a synthesizer without wondering where they belonged – or if the rules of art permitted it.
The outcome? A first “electro-string” album dexterously mixing the clanging violins of “RondoParisiano”, as baroque as they come, the lofty soul of “ Little bit of feel good” and the heady pop bubbles of “5 AM” (with the young west coast rap singer K.Flay) : twelve masterclass titles uniting a very 70s Easy Loving (Francis Lay style, enough to make Dimitri From Paris jealous) to the pent-up wrath of “Dies Irae”, a warlike march of unimaginable beauty, a hybrid both deeply melodious and radically electronic, a daring fusion of universes which have long been on a quest for each other and which, thanks to SALM, finally prove to be a match made in heaven.
Hi SomethingALaMode//Album Out Now!!, how are u? , check out the new releases of wavecollective records. Hope you like. Listen them in http://wavecollective.com
Best Regards, Frank
Hola SomethingALaMode//Album Out Now!! Que tal?, échale un vistazo a los nuevos releases de Wavecollective records. Espero que te gusten. Puedes verlos en http://wavecollective.com.
out now exclusive on beatport JUNKDNA new compilation JUNKYARD VOL 1, incl tracks by: mark knight d.ramirez vs underworld, junkdna, jerome isma-ae,gabi newman & eve carey,oded adam,ben brown,nino anthony,shik stylko and many more
out now exclusive on beatport JUNKDNA FT VLADI - MUSIC IS MY LIFE incl rmx by aqua diva & david jonas
Toujours présent, envers et contre tout ! Nouvel abus disponible :
ABUS DANGEREUX #112
En Couverture : FUCKED UP Au sommaire: 44 pages avec interviews, colonnes, news, chroniques (cd, vinyles, livres, faniznes, dvd) etc... : Fucked Up, The Fleshtones, Golden Boots, Kylesa, Kap Bambino, Why?, The Gaslight Anthem, Bikini Machine, Santa Cruz, Flying Donuts, Hellbats, The Roovers, Les Soucoupes Violentes, Rotor Jambrecks, Label Infrastion, Label Ici d'Ailleurs, Air Guitare.... + chroniques de livres, cd, dvd...
Ainsi que le sampler inédit 20 titres : Fucked Up (Live inédit), Golden Boots, Why?, 7 Weeks, Kylesa, Hellbats, Flying Donuts, The Roovers, Bikini Machine, The Fleshtones, The Gaslight Anthem, L'amour is The answer, Les Soucoups Violentes, Rotor Jambrecks, Santa Cruz, Kap Bambino, Martin Dupont, This Immortal Coil, Valoy, Clair Obscure.
Il était une fois, dans un petit royaume à cinq côtés, une princesse qui rêvait de conquérir le monde (ou sa proche banlieue). Comme le port d’arme, même de type B (comme batte de baseball),est interdit, elle avait opté pour le rock comme arme de persuasion massive. Le premier objectif stratégique était un lieu connu à travers le monde entier pour son importance capitale dans l’histoire du rock (et un peu du Roll mais moins). Il s’agissait de la légendaire citée perdue de Pontault-Combault, le berceau de la guitare à vapeur (inventée par Gérard Cugnot en 1864). Un instrument pour lequel Wagner lui-même avait composé « Symphonie around the clock » et « roll over à vapeur », pièces certes peu connues de son répertoire mais ô combien culottées pour une époque aussi guindée du fion.
Retrouvez donc la Princesse est dans les cordes le 13 février à la Boîte de concert (14 rue de Bellevue 77340 Pontault-Combault) pour la coquette somme de 6 euros (inclus un verre offert à la santé de sa principauté) à partir de 20h30. Elle sera flanquée des ravissants We are just friends (le groupe idéal si t’as pas d’amis) et des non moins succulents Say August (un groupe qui aime parler de nez rouges ?) Enfourchez tous vos poneys ou vos RER (le E) et rejoignez la troupe de la Princesse
Franck Stella | MySpace Video A young boxer, shaken by his brother's disapearance, tries to climb the social ladder through the boxing ring. His path will cross the ones of many misfits: a has-been coach, a placid father poisonned by alcohol, two "partners" as violent as stupid, and a sister whom he is obsessed whith
Happy New year dear friend! SO FRENCH RECORDS PRESENTS SFR013 Take It Back Ep from Nightriders So called Gold Knights!
I'm gonna tell you about that two producers from United States, they are more French than American... Their music based on French Touch' Spirit make us happy and reminds us that French Touch' spirit is still alive! Nightriders are the Boston dance duo; Matt Johnson and Joe Faria. The ep contains two original track, Take it back and Dj tool, with remixes from Freshlovers, Xinobi, Subdue, and ADrian! Exclusive now on Beatport!
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