Damien is a young author / composer from France. He is ultimately willing to serve a gastronomic and modern vision of pop. His eclectic style is inspired by Sebastian Bach, Britney Spears, Serge Gainsbourg, Beck, The Beatles, Air, Prince, Aphex Twin, Abba, Cornelius…
The result is a collection of songs at the crossroads of traditions and avant-garde. They are ultra personal essays of multiple genres through a very French lens even though staying very open to the rest of the world. Musical jewelry combining instinct and intellect, song writing and sound writing, classicism and irrelevance, analog and digital, over the top and pragmatism, humour and weirdness, fun and mystery, spirituality and triviality, romanticism and pornography, elegance and decadence, coolness and intensity, popularity and experience, underachievement and precision, archaism and sophistication, comfort and surprise, luxury and purity.
At age 20 Damien decides to send his music to a label. He chose Record Makers and Record Makers chose him.
The record commissioned was recorded on his own, far away from professional studios and in multiple locations (cellar, garden, church .. ). L’Art du Disque was meant to be the secret work of a travelling painter.
Recording was long and difficult, victim of many technical bugs and data losses, hardware braking down and uninvited surrounding sounds.
Damien states that your ancient family descendants sometimes use his body as a system interface through which they convey certain instruments or voices recorded on this album.
In many centuries, the Disque will be considered as an antiquity inherent to our contemporary time, even a musical genre in itself which consists of fixing several musical pieces in stereo and in a certain order and balance.
While looking like a sampler of music’s history, L’Art du Disque is ultimately a tribute to the « record » genre. Others could also read it as a coded and subliminal work embodied by 10 musical riddles.
Damien is a young author / composer from France. He is ultimately willing to serve a gastronomic and modern vision of pop. His eclectic style is inspired by Sebastian Bach, Britney Spears, Serge Gainsbourg, Beck, The Beatles, Air, Prince, Aphex Twin, Abba, Cornelius…
