Biography January 8, 2010

I’m french, born in 1970, living in Paris for a long time now, and started recording my own music quite lately.

I produced my first 6 tracks demo in 1999. French lyrics, guitar oriented, maybe inspired by The Jesus & Mary Chain or early 90′s indie noise bands. It was reviewed by the french e-zine PoPnews. They asked me for another track in order to be featured on their first compilation, released in 2000.

I then produced an 11 tracks album demo, which had no particular following. Still in French. For this one I started to use mellotrons, alongside with guitars.

I met Andrew Sweeny a long time later, in 2004, after a Barzin show. We decided to work together on his songs. I recorded, arranged and produced his first album, “Monotone”, out in 2005 on the french label Travelling Music. I also recorded arrangements for a split single for Andrew Sweeny and Everything is Fine for the label Hinah.

At the same time I met people from Ocean Music. They asked me for a track for a compilation, out in fall 2004. The track was called “La brume”. I also had the opportunity to be involved in a 3 dates tour with Tamara Williamson, as a piano player. Scary for I’m mainly a (decent) guitar player…

Finally, in 2005, I won a remix contest of french singer Dominique A’s “Dobranoc”. A single was released by his label, Labels/EMI, including the original track plus 4 winning remixes.

Then I had to stop music again (had a kid) until the end of 2008 when I started to work on new material. With a big move : I never felt comfortable with french tongue for singing, so I decided to write english lyrics.

A first DIY single was recorded in April, 2009, something very low, some kind of indietronica / slowcore, more or less compared by some, because of the voice, to Thomas Feiner & Anywhen, or David Sylvian.

Then I wrote more songs, spent a lot of time recording them after that 4 years break. I had the opportunity to open for a Simon Finn gig in Paris in october, 2009, and had to record a 3 tracks acoustic demo, Invisible Birds EP.

The main results are “Untimely Tales“, a 9 tracks album, out in January, 18th, 2010 (because it’s my birthday…), and Ghostly Female Faces, a 5 tracks EP out in November, 15th, 2010. DIY, self-released efforts, brilliantly mastered by Brian Hazard at Resonance Mastering in Los Angeles.

Photo shot by Anne-Christine, in Paris in february 2010.