Artist description Parisienne is a musical project originated during 2000. The basic idea was to compose a set of tracks reflecting a certain image of Paris, or, rather, expressing a variety of feelings and moods that Paris inspires to those that know "it" (her ?) discover it, love it or hate it, dwell in it as if in a cell, or glide through it as on the wings of a dream. Quite a program. The initial project had to evoke as much as possible antagonistic aspects of "the city of lights", so as to end up with a balanced, not too soft, not too hard image... As soon as the first track was complete, it became evident that the project could not be driven in that precise direction. Too many stories, places, ambients would have to be left behind, too many hard choices made. To divide this work into two records (or a double disc) then seemed the right way to do it, but that was taking us to twice as big a workload, twice longer work, or close to it. Paris by day, Paris by night... Considering the absolute lack of everything (time, money, studio,etc) that was the background for this search, the horizon of which was constantly broadening, a mean (or the will) was to be found to focus on some parts rather than on the global concept, so as to be able to carry on whithout having the feeling of sacrifying the major part of the ideas that came as the project was in progress (it would be possible, of course, to work on a 4-cd record, along with a 96 page color leaflet holding photos, drawings, texts...). The quickness with which tracks were composed, the growing excitement coming from the assembly of those tracks that seemed to echo one to another, pushed the project towards a completion which, though it didn't match the initial "integral" conception, would allow a test of the "making of" Parisienne, as well as to have a sufficiently complete product to go look for outside help, and test the way people would react to this work. Once again , the first track recorded (it's "Rue d'Aboukir") showed the way : among all compositions that would gather to form this work, it quickly became clear that the most easily identifiable common ingredient was this kind of smoothness, this atmosphere of nostalgic lazyness that finally characterizes most of the tracks presented here. The Rhodes keyboards weave an entanglement of obsessing rhythmic patterns upon which percussion and drums settle sometimes slow and hip-hop, dub or jazz flavored, sometimes housy or breakbeat-ish grooves. The use of very limited gear, without any of the machines found in every studio, minors the electronic aspect of theses tracks, allowing the audio samples to warm up the sound, adding their different textures to create a changing, attractive, human music. All tracks were composed on a single computer, using NO outer equipment such as synths, drumboxes, effects or mixer. Just a Mac and a few instruments. Instead of going straight for an "all-or-nothing" approach of this project, it seems wiser to focus on what will then be, if the result matches the intent, considered as an introduction to the "Parisienne suite".

Music Style Eclectica

Musical Influences All music since the world was round...

Location paris, France - France

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