Album available to download at: http://www.beatpick.com/manu
From Montreal, this french guy has produced numerous exuberant tracks for retails tv commercials and developed a skill to figured out how “a queen platform bed at reduced price…” should sound like. Although, some balance was needed between exuberant music and personal melancholy. And this is how a happy conflict gave birth to this demo.
His musical exploration started in the late 90's. Playing electric guitar in various garage band, experimenting computers capacities, programming drums, sequencing audio fragments, jamming melodious instances, encrypting vocals through vocoder, deconstructing samples to death and resurrecting them into musical phrases under atmospheric soundscape, etc… It illustrate well the process of how some ideas can lead to some research and end up the center of an album project. According to him, he wrote all the song in his living room studio, next to the big green window choked by the vines. A creative spot that sparked the ritual to spontaneously play, record and mix the majority of his tracks.
Inspired, by people, lost loves, arts, he managed to convey melancholy into poetic overtones, sustaining a warm ambience that would blow any dust puddle a round. The music collides with luminous reality, revealing a cinematic intensity while keeping a good rational dose of electronic sense. It dares you to go on a tangent or, simply call you to kick your feet and behave like an epicurean…