: I started music academically with saxophone at 8 years old, then self-taught guitar at 14. At this age I won a competition as an Angus Young (AC/DC) “look-alike” . I was invited to meet the band and went on stage with them in Paris for their intro song (Who Made Who). Even if I was only provided with a cardboard guitar, I attribute this event to my love for live performance, as when I walked onstage, there was a massive roar from the audience (who did not realise yet that I was only an Angus Look-alike;-) and that lifted me up like nothing else… I was hooked on this adrenaline. Following this experience, I finally switched to bass and started my first band with Laur, who was then the Drummer.

: I took drums lessons when I was 16 then started playing with Charles. Later, I played drums in various hardcore/glam/punk bands (Flood, SAPO, Bridewell Hospital, Sparkling Bombs, Kevin K, etc.) until a few years ago when I finally started to sing my own lyrics. I’ve always been involved in the song writing/lyrics in my main bands.

: I would probably say something like “groovy heavy alternative rock with cinematic and occult/spiritual references.”

: This is a good one! Or: it could be “Imagine an old Hammer movie, directed by Dali and recoloured by Andy Warhol”

: On Friday the 13th of June, the label Pugilat Deluxe will release our new album, “Shamanic Faultlines”, a long format (13 tracks) which will be available on vinyl (black and splatter), CD and digital. The same day we will release our new video “Call of the Wendigo”.

: Releasing a new album is always exciting. In a way it’s the end of a chapter but the start of new things too. It’s always interesting to hear and read what people think about our music.

: The art of “letting go”, when you start the mastering process and there is no coming back, you have to kind of surrender and trust your gut feeling. Indeed it is a difficult phase to let go of what you worked on and are so close to in order to share it with others.

: It took some time because we don’t have any pressure from anyone but ourselves. We just take the time we need to make new songs that are soulful to us and that’s a very important thing.

: Making music that we enjoy is our main priority. For this album we took our sweet time (2 years) as we knew from the writing/composing phase that we had something special in our hands. Moreover, this time we invited several musicians friends to collaborate with us: Dick Dens from the band “The Irradiates” played guitar on two tracks, Boris Boublil (Mu and Emilie Loizeau) played Moog and organ, Loki Lockwood (Velatine, Spooky Records) on synth, Jean-Philippe Feiss on Cello, beautiful Inga Liljestrom lent us her amazing voice on a few songs, Peter M on drums, Peter Miller on Theremin, Blair Manie on Oud, Alex Zillon on vocals…. Extremely talented folks, each bringing their own sensibility to the song they collaborate on.

: Of course! Music definitely helps. It’s more than being the soundtrack of our lives. It’s funny how it works, sometimes dark songs can brighten your day and happy ones can take you down!

: Music has always been a guiding light, a saviour, sometimes a crutch. Creating is a way to understand the World for me.

: The new ways to promote a band can be challenging to us. We come from a time when we recorded demo cassettes and sent them away to promote our bands but we slowly get used to the modern ways of promoting a band.

: We both have professional occupations aside from music now but when I was living in Paris a few years ago I was indeed a professional musician for some time. That did not last too long as to keep this status in France, you have an obligation to play a certain number of official paid gigs in a specific time frame. It was such a race against time to get those gigs that you could only focus on this. Plus, sometimes you had to compromise as to play cover songs or being a “hired gun” for bands that are touring more extensively. After a while in this “hamster wheel” I took the decision to have a day to day paid job that allowed me to create whatever I was feeling like.

: We try not to do it that much. I mean, it can look so contrived for some bands. I like bands more than influencers!

: Yes!

: We just try not to force ourselves and post when we want to, just keep it fun!

: From the start of this band we tried to create our own visual and musical universe. As such, posting “content” for us is like opening our door or windows to show what is going on in our little demented World.

: For those who still like the real thing, they can buy our records!

: Yes! Especially for the vinyl version of “Shamanic Faultlines” we did what we love from the experience of interacting with a musical artefact: an evocative artwork, printed lyrics and little stories unfolding!

: I read books, watch films and series and go out for a drink or two!

: I’m an avid reader and to relax and focus I practice Transcendental Meditation.

12. Where can people find you?

Website | Bandcamp | Facebook | YouTube