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Beyond fashions but never out of his time, Jeff Sharel travels on another musical planet. The beginning of the 90's is also the beginning of the techno music, which is then hardly understood. It doesn't matter! This musician from Grenoble succumbs to it. At the end of the decade, this movement is eventually recognised and the French Touch is a success. But where is Jeff ? Far away from here, in the United States, working for the Statra Label (for his first album), then in Africa (with Frédéric Galliano and then Julien Lourau), where he explores the blend between electronic and organic music (jazz, afro beat). Today, while a part of techno musicians are attracted by pop music and its instruments, Jeff Sharel returns to a full electronic music with his second album "Resistances".
"Resistances" is a personal album with no more obvious influences: house, dub and afro beat have been digested, assimilated and are now murmuring and dancing together without flagrant distinction. A record marked by some work on sound material. It is bewitching and warm, it crackles with the voices of the New Yorker Astrid Suryanto (I Want Come and Show Your Face), the Belgian David Linx (Résistances) and the African Ali Boulo Sento (Dounia). Finally, a record in which electronics is predominant: " the aim of this album is also to contradict present pontiffs, according to which there is no more interest in electronic music. " As a proof, if need be, of the contrary!
Photograph: Philippe Mazzoni
Contacts
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Country: France
Name: Olivier Desponts / Olympic Tour
Tel: 02 40 96 60 31
Fax: 02 40 95 14 08
E-mail: olivierd@olympictour.fr
Adress: 1 rue des Reformés
44100 NANTES
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