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02
May

Six Acts from the Lowlands at The Great Escape

Posted by: Nikki in: Dutch Impact , Events

CUT_, Dakota, Jameszoo, Klangstof, Kim Janssen and Pip Blom will take to the stage at The Great Escape bringing you everything from rainbow-hued synths to psychedelic guitar riffs,  with something for everyone’s musical taste buds.

These acts have already built solid foundations and are at the forefront of the Dutch music scene. If their growing fan base is anything to go by, these bands have exciting musical careers ahead of them and are the ones to keep on your radar in 2017.

The Dutch have been building their reputation as a nation worth taking notice of when it comes to the new emerging artists and you can expect more of the same at this years Great Escape. Attend the official Dutch Impact party on Friday 19th May or see one of the other many shows during the Great Escape.  See full list of venues and times below.

Dutch Impact Party on Friday 19th May 2017
Komedia (main), 44-47 Gardner Street, Brighton

Running order:
12.00 CUT_
12:45 Dakota
13:30 Kim Janssen
14:30 Pip Blom
15:30 Klangstof

Thursday 18th May
Kim Janssen – Queens Hotel 14:30
Klangstof – Coalition 21:00hrs

Friday 19th May
Pip Blom – Brighthelm 20:30h

Saturday 20th May
Dakota – Latest Music Bar 19:30
Jameszoo – Patterns Downstairs 21.15h

More info on the acts and venues here:
http://www.dutch-impact.nl/category/festivals/the-great-escape


About the artists

CUT_
Electronic duo CUT_ took off rapidly after their rendition of Stromae’s ‘Papaoutai’ went viral. CUT_ has since then played numerous shows, including performances at Lowlands, PITCH, ADE, Eurosonic and various appearances on Dutch national television. CUT_ released their first single on [PIAS]  “Tune In Tune Out” (mixed and co-produced by Leo Abrahams), which was released late last year. Focusing on encompassing the full spectrum of artistry, CUT_ have made video and visuals an important part of their image, as well as trying to excel in their live shows.  “We find that live shows are a way to really distinguish yourself as an artist nowadays, especially when, like in our case, the music is focused on electronic production. We make a point of doing everything live.” (Sebastiaan Dutilh: production & songwriting)

Website: www.cutunderscore.com
Music: https://play.spotify.com/

Dakota
Do you know that feeling? That feeling of wanting to lay back on the couch, close your eyes and drift away to dreamy and hazy music? The Netherlands’ Dakota do just that. Dakota’s new project titled “Leda” blends Psychedelic guitar riffs with indie-pop roots, coming together into a neatly packaged 6 track EP. But don’t let this lo fi charm fool you, the live show of this four piece band gets you to the edge of your seat.They seamlessly blend California feels with Garage Rock and Dream Pop. Look out for Dakota as they make their way in the underground pop scene.

Website: http://www.dakotamusic.nl/
Music: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zie2UuwmjwU

Jameszoo
The word ‘naive’ comes from the Latin ‘nativus’, meaning native, or natural. Today, to be naive is often seen as pejorative, a lack of experience or judgement, but in the art world the word retained some of its original meaning: a quality acquired through birth, a childlike innocence and wonder that produces spontaneous, unaffected art. For Mitchel Van Dinther, the Dutch producer known as Jameszoo, it is this quality that lies at the heart of his debut album released last year, Fool, which he calls “naive, computer jazz.”  Van Dinther emerged from the small town of Den Bosch in the southern Netherlands in the late 2000s. First as a DJ – with wide-ranging crates of avant-garde jazz, prog and kraut rock, electronic experiments, and beat oddities – and then as a producer capable of impressive sonic and rhythmic incongruities. This spring, Van Dinther joins Brainfeeder with an album that fits right into the label’s expanding take on the modern evolution of jazz music.

Website: http://jameszoo.com/
Music: https://soundcloud.com/jameszoo

 

Kim Janssen
Kim Janssen was born in The Netherlands but raised in Bangkok, Phnom Penh and Kathmandu. His music could be categorized as pop, and it’s swinging in tone from dark to blinding technicolor, with glossy synths, huge orchestral arrangements and Kim’s vocal – at times a Bill Callahan-esque croon, at times a soaring falsetto. His latest album, ‘Cousins’, was recorded across three years and several studios. The album features contributions from Marla Hansen (Sufjan Stevens, The National) and Eiríkur Orri Ólafsson (Sigur Rós) and was mixed by Chris Coady (Beach house, Future Islands) and mastered by Greg Calbi (Graceland).

Website: https://www.kimjanssen.net/
Music: https://kimjanssen.bandcamp.com/

Klangstof
There’s a patience at play in Klangstof’s aural creations: the musician is a craftsman when constructing the chilling sound that comprises his stunning debut album, Close Eyes to Exit. It’s there in the crisp, slow-building single “Hostage,” electric guitars gently strummed, electronic beats like a rising heartbeat, all giving way to full-throated release: “I ran for shelter/But I got there,” he intones. Or in the way “Sleaze” shifts from whispered confession (“Nintendo is the only thing that makes me smile”) to propulsive, rainbow-hued synths at a moment’s notice.

Website: http://www.klangstof.com/
Music: https://soundcloud.com/klangstof

Pip Blom
Never listen to people who want to change your music. With that advice from a fellow musician Amsterdam based Pip Blom (20) started making songs. At first with just a three string Loog guitar with the 14 track demo album Short Stories (2013) as the result.  Three years later the sound has changed completely. Gone is the ‘girl with little guitar’. Enter electric guitars, bass and drums. But it is still all Pip.

Website: http://pipblom.com/
Music: https://soundcloud.com/pipblom

More info on bands here: http://www.dutch-impact.nl/category/festivals/the-great-escape

BROUGHT TO YOU BY DUTCH MUSIC EXPORT. POWERED BY EUROSONIC NOORDERSLAG, DUTCH PERFORMING ARTS AND BUMA CULTUUR. WITH THE KIND SUPPORT OF THE EMBASSY  OF THE KINGDOM OF THE NETHERLANDS.

Contact:
Nikki McNeill | Global Publicity | We Are Global
nikki@globalpublicity.co.uk

 

 

24
Apr

See Debrah Scarlett at TGE Presents

Posted by: Nikki in: Artists , Events

We are also excited to announce that the Swiss artist Debrah Scarlett will perform at the TGE Presents event on Tuesday 25th April.  So if you can’t wait till TGE to get your new music fix,  we hope you can join us to get a taster of some of the talent you can expect to see from Switzerland.

Tuesday 25 April 2017: TGE presents
Venue: Old Blue Last in Shoreditch – 38 Great Eastern St, London EC2A 3ES
With (amongst others) Debrah Scarlett with band
www.theoldbluelast.com

 

Thursday 27 April 2017: TGE Launch Party in London (Invite Only)
Venue: KAMIO in Shoreditch (1-3 Rivington St, London EC2A 3DT)
Free refreshments, guests will also be served with great music from Switzerland including a short live show of Debrah Scarlett (solo).
www.iamkam.io

About Debrah Scarlett
Debrah Scarlett is the 23-year-old Swiss born singer crafting an entire musical world from a sleepy Norwegian town. Taking the experience of a childhood spent traveling, Debrah makes the kind of life affirming pop music that speaks to the human condition – with all the memories, nightmares, dreams and stories that come with it.  “I think a lot of people get very confused when they ask where and when I’ve lived here and there. I’ve kind of been like a yo-yo, moving back and forth,” she says of a youth that saw her born in Switzerland in the summer of ’93, move to Norway at the turn of the millennium, back to Switzerland for her teenage years and back again to the town of Nittedal, Norway in 2014. Daughter to a Norwegian mother and a Swiss-Italian father, Debrah felt, as she puts it, “like an alien, different from those around me,” and although she spoke several languages from a young age, never seemed to perfect any of them. “Music became my language,” she says of the time. “It enabled me to truly express myself.”

Website: http://debrahscarlett.com/
Soundcloud: http://soundcloud.com/debrah-scarlett

Contact:
Nikki McNeill | Global Publicity | We Are Global
nikki@globalpublicity.co.uk

 

23
Apr

Swiss Focus at The Great Escape – Final Line Up Announced

Posted by: Nikki in: Artists , Events

The country maybe small, but it’s music scene is mighty with 9 acts ready to make their mark at The Great Escape as Switzerland takes centre stage as the focus country.  This is a music scene worth delving deeper into as some of the artists may just surprise you.   We hope you will enjoy discovering new music from Switzerland, please find all the venue information dates and times of all the acts performing below.

Swiss Events at The Great Escape

Thursday 18th May 2017: Speed Dating – 2.30pm – 4pm
Venue: The Dome

Thursday 18th May 2017: Delegate Reception hosted by Switzerland – early evening
Venue: MyHotel Bar
Meet Swiss delegates and music industry professionals and enjoy wine, beer and raclette.

Friday 19th May 2017: Swiss Business Mixer & Artist Showcase 12pm – 4pm
Venue: Komedia Studio
One Sentence. Superviser Friday 12:30pm
Baba Shrimps: Friday, 1:30pm
ME + MARIE: Friday 2:30pm
Odd Beholder:  Friday 3:30pm

Friday 19th May 2017: Swiss Festivals Drink Reception 5pm – 7pm
Venue: Sticky Mike’s Frog Bar
Meet the key players in the Swiss Festival market

Friday 19th May: m4music Festival Presents 7pm – 1am
Venue: Sticky Mike’s Frog Bar
Buvette: Friday 8:15pm
Baba Shrimps: Friday 9:15pm

Others Shows by Swiss Artists at The Great Escape

Thursday 18th May 2017
Hyperculte: Thursday 8:15pm Green Door Store
Odd Beholder: Thursday 9:15pm Patterns Upstairs
Sophie Hunger: Thursday, 9:30pm Sallis Benney Theatre
One Sentence. Supervisor: Thursday 10:30pm Sticky Mike’s Frog Bar
Zeal & Ardor: Thursday, 12am Patterns Downstairs

Friday 19th May 2017
Debrah Scarlett: Friday 12:30pm Marine Room – Harbour Hotel
One Sentence. Supervisor: Friday 12:30pm Komedia Studio
Zeal & Ardor: Friday 10:30pm Brighthelm Centre
Debrah Scarlett: Friday 12:30am Brighthelm Centre
ME + MARIE: Friday 1am Latest Music Bar

The Great Escape warm up events

If you can’t wait till TGE, Swiss artist Debrah Scarlett will perform at the TGE Presents event on Tuesday 25th April.  We hope you can join us to get a taster of some of the talent you can expect to see from Switzerland.

Tuesday 25 April 2017: TGE presents
Venue: Old Blue Last in Shoreditch – 38 Great Eastern St, London EC2A 3ES
With (amongst others) Debrah Scarlett with band
www.theoldbluelast.com

Thursday 27 April 2017: TGE Launch Party in London (Invite Only)
Venue: KAMIO in Shoreditch (1-3 Rivington St, London EC2A 3DT)
Free refreshments, guests will also be served with great music from Switzerland including a short live show of Debrah Scarlett (solo).
www.iamkam.io

About the Swiss Artists

Find out more about all the Swiss artists performing at this years Great Escape below. If you’d like an interview or to attend any of the showcase events please let us know.

Baba Shrimps
Three musicians with their stunning and heartwarming interpretation of contemporary popmusic. Shortly before the release of their debut album NEON (2014) the band was discovered and signed worldwide by SONY Music. The album was a huge hit and quickly rose to prominence in the swiss charts. The band played gigs in over 200 clubs and festivals and Baba Shrimps supported „Kings of Leon“ and „Kodaline“ for several shows. Currently the trio is based in London finishing their upcoming album with producer David Kosten (e.g. Everything Everything, Bat for Lashes, Marina and the Diamonds). The album is scheduled for 2017.

Website: http://babashrimps.ch/
Music: http://soundcloud.com/babashrimps

Buvette
Buvette bathes in vast urban landscapes, mingling with thousands of souls lost in their dreams and craving for a life elsewhere as he continues on his rhythmic journey under the influence(s). His music draws on the discoveries he makes during his solitary investigations. In his concrete jungle, people gather eagerly, packed tightly together, sweating and dancing to mesmerizing beats in genuine acts of godless religious communion. Buvette’s songs are doors that open onto the secret and the shared; onto the past and the present. They are the subtle, primarily rhythmic constructions of a drummer who deploys startling structures that suggest chromatic geometries in psychedelic forms. His lyrics conjure up a succession of portraits, landscapes and slices of life like infinitely elastic recurrent dreams. Buvette’s imagination connects reality and memories so closely that the border between them blurs. Burette wears his encounters like jewels and shares then with a vital energy.

Website: http://facebook.com/BUVETTE-106025589450783
Music: http://soundcloud.com/buvette

 

Debrah Scarlett (CH/NO)
Debrah Scarlett is the 23-year-old Swiss born singer crafting an entire musical world from a sleepy Norwegian town. Taking the experience of a childhood spent traveling, Debrah makes the kind of life affirming pop music that speaks to the human condition – with all the memories, nightmares, dreams and stories that come with it.  “I think a lot of people get very confused when they ask where and when I’ve lived here and there. I’ve kind of been like a yo-yo, moving back and forth,” she says of a youth that saw her born in Switzerland in the summer of ’93, move to Norway at the turn of the millennium, back to Switzerland for her teenage years and back again to the town of Nittedal, Norway in 2014. Daughter to a Norwegian mother and a Swiss-Italian father, Debrah felt, as she puts it, “like an alien, different from those around me,” and although she spoke several languages from a young age, never seemed to perfect any of them. “Music became my language,” she says of the time. “It enabled me to truly express myself.”

Website: http://debrahscarlett.com/
Soundcloud: http://soundcloud.com/debrah-scarlett

Hyperculte
Hyperculte is a minimalist transpop prekraut postdisco duo band.  Hyperculte was formed in 2014 in Geneva, Switzerland.Melancholic and nostalgic danse for a poetic trans. or the contrary. Hyperculte is continuously trying  to open hearts at all costs.

Website: http://facebook.com/hyperculte
Music: http://hyperculte.bandcamp.com/

Me+Marie
ME + MARIE: With their stunning combination of Indie Rock, Folk and Blues, ME + MARIE have gathered a dedicated following in Switzerland, Germany, Austria, and Italy. Their debut album One Eyed Lovereceived high praise from critics and fans alike, with many reviewers mentioning the unique sound of Maria deVal´s and Roland Scandella’s voices blended together to create an intense, dark and fascinating atmosphere.

Website: http://meandmarie.com/
Music: https://soundcloud.com/memarieofficial

 

Odd Beholder
Odd Beholder combine introvert song writing with an abstracted and yet almost restrained, stark sound. As exalted as an empty car park in early morning light. Whereas pop is the finish line, not the starting point. „We develop our songs out of the experiment into simplicity.” With the release of their debut EP „Lighting“, the secret hit „Landscape Escape“ and the corresponding video shot in Azerbaijan Daniela Weinmann and James Varghese have already created quite a stir and were featured on illustrious outlets like NOWNESS, i-D, ZEIT and Clash. After invitations to Reeperbahn, Great Escape and m4music Festival, touring as support act of Hundreds, Odd Beholder will release their new EP „Atlas“ in April on Sinnbus and Mouthwatering Records. Odd Beholder’s second EP „Atlas“ will be released in spring of 2017 as well as playing their first headline tour.

Website: https://www.musicglue.com/oddbeholder/
Music: http://soundcloud.com/oddbeholder


One Sentence. Supervisor
Formed in Baden (ch) in 2012, one sen- tence. supervisor recall the phantoms of the eighties with their catchy, misty krautpop, unencumbered by too many references. a universe that is hard to categorize, in which omnipresent syn- thetic sounds meet tense repetitive rhythms without ever becoming tedious. As for their obsessive melodies play- ing between shadow and light, they are tinged with psychedelic colours that unfold like some celestial stairway to- wards the imaginary.

http://onesentencesupervisor.ch/
http://soundcloud.com/one-sentence-supervisor

 

Sophie Hunger
Sophie Hunger is a Swiss singer-songwriter who grew up in England, Switzerland and Germany, where she lives. She debuted in 2008 with the album Monday’s Ghost, which entered the Swiss Album Charts on ♯1 and sent her touring throughout Europe/U.S. Her debut album, the following records 1983 (2010) and The Danger of Light (2012) as well as her live performances were received with critical acclaim by the European press, e.g. The Guardian, The Sunday Times. In 2010 Hunger became the first Swiss artist to ever play at the Glastonbury Festival. She went on to win the Swiss Award and the Prix de la Création Musicale of France in 2012, and released a live album The Rules of Fire in 2015, which has since sold over 250’000 albums worldwide. In 2015 she released of her fourth studio album called SUPERMOON on Caroline Records. The album was recorded in Brussels and San Francisco and produced by Sophie Hunger in collaboration with John Vanderslice and mixed by Mark Lawson.

Website: http://sophiehunger.com/
Soundcloud: http://soundcloud.com/sophiehungerofficial

 

Zeal & Ardor
Summon the children, for tonight He rises…Emancipation. Damnation. Blasphemy. Ecstasy. Vengeance. Deliverance. Rebellion. Liberation. Consider this your invitation to the transcendent, transfiguring Satanic Spirituals of «Devil Is Fine». «Nothing released this year is as strange, inscrutable or wonderful than Zeal & Ardor’s «Devil Is Fine»» extols US Rolling Stone, hailing the debut album as «a dream world of infinite possibilities.» The creation of Swiss-American songwriter/soundscaper Manuel Gagneux, «Devil Is Fine» is an artistic artefact like no other, a meld of black metal, field recordings, Delta blues, jazz, ring shouts, music box melodies, glitchy hip-hop beats, soul and gospel, brought together in the service of The One With Horns. It is the most provocative, challenging, innovative and utterly individual album of the year, a recording which obliterates genre boundaries and creates a dark, diabolical universe all its own.

Website: http://zealandardor.com/
Music: https://soundcloud.com/zealandardor


Presented by Swiss Music Export, Pro Helvetia, Fondation Suisa, Embassy of Switzerland, m4music
Contact:
Nikki McNeill | Global Publicity
nikki@globalpublicity.co.uk

19
Apr

Third ETEP Results – Busy festival season ahead for new European artists

Posted by: Nikki in: European Border Breaker Awards (EBBA) , Eurosonic Noorderslag , Events , Festivals

With record numbers of shows already being confirmed in the programme’s 15th year, ETEP continues to promote and support the circulation of European artists on festivals across Europe and beyond.

More than 100 festivals are giving these European acts a stage to perform to new audiences, including award-winning festivals such as EXIT, Primavera, Rock Werchter and Sziget.

The new numbers are as follows: 241 shows by 117 artists from 21 countries.

Results
1 Shame gb 13
2 Her fr 6
3 Roosevelt de 5
4 Klangstof nl 5
5 Fil Bo Riva it/de 5
6 Faber ch 5
7 Rejjie Snow ie 4
8 Tommy Cash ee 4
9 Sløtface no 4
10 Taxiwars be 3

For all up-to-date ETEP results, visit www.etep.nl

ETEP charts
Want to know what the new music trends in Europe are? Check out our ETEP acts on the European Border Breakers Charts and the ETEP charts.

Follow us on Facebook or Twitter if you wish to receive regular updates about the charts and discover fresh, new European music. Or, subscribe to our Friday chart alerts to get the chart in your inbox as soon as it is updated!

Contact
Nikki McNeill | Global Publicity
nikki@globalpublicity.co.uk

30
Mar

Seven Dutch Artists Not To Miss At The Great Escape

Posted by: Nikki in: Dutch Impact , Events

The Dutch have been building their reputation as a nation worth taking notice of when it comes to the new emerging artists and you can expect more of the same at this years Great Escape.

CUT_, Dakota, Jameszoo, Kovacs, Klangstof, Kim Janssen and Thomas Azier will take to the stage at The Great Escape bringing you everything from rainbow-hued synths to psychedelic guitar riffs, and huge orchestral arrangements with something for everyone’s musical taste buds.

These acts have already built solid foundations and are at the forefront of the Dutch music scene. If their growing fan base is anything to go by, these bands have exciting musical careers ahead of them and are the ones to keep on your radar in 2017.

Find out more about the bands below and if you’d like an interview or guestlist to the showcase please let us know.

About the artists

CUT_
Electronic duo CUT_ took off rapidly after their rendition of Stromae’s ‘Papaoutai’ went viral. CUT_ has since then played numerous shows, including performances at Lowlands, PITCH, ADE, Eurosonic and various appearances on Dutch national television. CUT_ released their first single on [PIAS]  “Tune In Tune Out” (mixed and co-produced by Leo Abrahams), which was released late last year. Focusing on encompassing the full spectrum of artistry, CUT_ have made video and visuals an important part of their image, as well as trying to excel in their live shows.  “We find that live shows are a way to really distinguish yourself as an artist nowadays, especially when, like in our case, the music is focused on electronic production. We make a point of doing everything live.” (Sebastiaan Dutilh: production & songwriting)

Website: www.cutunderscore.com
Music: https://play.spotify.com/

Dakota
Do you know that feeling? That feeling of wanting to lay back on the couch, close your eyes and drift away to dreamy and hazy music? The Netherlands’ Dakota do just that. Dakota’s new project titled “Leda” blends Psychedelic guitar riffs with indie-pop roots, coming together into a neatly packaged 6 track EP. But don’t let this lo fi charm fool you, the live show of this four piece band gets you to the edge of your seat.They seamlessly blend California feels with Garage Rock and Dream Pop. Look out for Dakota as they make their way in the underground pop scene.

Website: http://www.dakotamusic.nl/
Music: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zie2UuwmjwU

Jameszoo
The word ‘naive’ comes from the Latin ‘nativus’, meaning native, or natural. Today, to be naive is often seen as pejorative, a lack of experience or judgement, but in the art world the word retained some of its original meaning: a quality acquired through birth, a childlike innocence and wonder that produces spontaneous, unaffected art. For Mitchel Van Dinther, the Dutch producer known as Jameszoo, it is this quality that lies at the heart of his debut album released last year, Fool, which he calls “naive, computer jazz.”  Van Dinther emerged from the small town of Den Bosch in the southern Netherlands in the late 2000s. First as a DJ – with wide-ranging crates of avant-garde jazz, prog and kraut rock, electronic experiments, and beat oddities – and then as a producer capable of impressive sonic and rhythmic incongruities. This spring, Van Dinther joins Brainfeeder with an album that fits right into the label’s expanding take on the modern evolution of jazz music.

Website: http://jameszoo.com/
Music: https://soundcloud.com/jameszoo

Kim Janssen
Kim Janssen was born in The Netherlands but raised in Bangkok, Phnom Penh and Kathmandu. His music could be categorized as pop, and it’s swinging in tone from dark to blinding technicolor, with glossy synths, huge orchestral arrangements and Kim’s vocal – at times a Bill Callahan-esque croon, at times a soaring falsetto. His latest album, ‘Cousins’, was recorded across three years and several studios. The album features contributions from Marla Hansen (Sufjan Stevens, The National) and Eiríkur Orri Ólafsson (Sigur Rós) and was mixed by Chris Coady (Beach house, Future Islands) and mastered by Greg Calbi (Graceland).

Website: https://www.kimjanssen.net/
Music: https://kimjanssen.bandcamp.com/

Klangstof
There’s a patience at play in Klangstof’s aural creations: the musician is a craftsman when constructing the chilling sound that comprises his stunning debut album, Close Eyes to Exit. It’s there in the crisp, slow-building single “Hostage,” electric guitars gently strummed, electronic beats like a rising heartbeat, all giving way to full-throated release: “I ran for shelter/But I got there,” he intones. Or in the way “Sleaze” shifts from whispered confession (“Nintendo is the only thing that makes me smile”) to propulsive, rainbow-hued synths at a moment’s notice.

Website: http://www.klangstof.com/
Music: https://soundcloud.com/klangstof

Kovacs
Kovacs music has soul. Her dark voice and her passion are what makes her music different from all the rest. Her radical emotionalism and the abyss-deep soul that she brings to her songs seems to turn her innermost self inside out and her raw style and her dark voice lead to comparisons with Portishead or Amy Winehouse. She is 24-years-old, but you perceive that she has already lived a whole life: KOVACS!  With the release of her album KOVACS stands at the beginning of her great adventure and she can hardly wait for it to begin.

Website: http://www.kovacsmusic.com/
Music: https://soundcloud.com/kovacs_music

Thomas Azier
Thomas Azier grew up in a small town in the Netherlands and moved to Berlin when he was 19, in a bold attempt to find his artistic voice. After almost a decade living in Berlin, the 29-year-old Dutchman relocated to Paris in the wake of the Gallic success of his acclaimed debut album, ‘Hylas’, released in 2014. Azier refers to ‘Hylas’ as his “Berlin album”, influenced by the electronic scene in Germany’s vibrant city. Its lead single ‘Red Eyes’ was chosen for an international TV campaign for “Yves Saint Laurent Beauté”. After an extensive tour with more than 120 concerts in 2013 and 2014 (including shows with Stromae and Woodkid) he started working on his sophomore album. During his time in Paris, Azier bought a 1920s upright piano, and songs started immediately hitting him like waves

The result is a composite of piano and laptop, bound together by a ‘fil rouge’ that is his voice, in an amalgamation of passed influences and future ones. Azier will release his anticipated second album “Rouge” on May, 12th (Virgin/Mercury Music Group).

Website: http://www.thomasazier.com
Music: https://soundcloud.com/thomasazier

More info on bands here: http://www.dutch-impact.nl/category/festivals/the-great-escape

Brought to you by the Dutch Music Export. Powered by Eurosonic Eurosonci, Dutch Performing Arts and Buma Cultuur, with the kind support of the embassy of the Kingdom of The Netherlands

Contact
Nikki McNeill | Global Publicity
nikki@globalpublicity.co.uk

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