Showing posts with label pop music. Show all posts
Showing posts with label pop music. Show all posts

Friday, 1 February 2008

Get To The Point (FMR)


Here's the web flyer for my next show, and some info (in French)... as the biz gets busy buzzing!

"Sur scène, c'est un artiste complet: comédien, musicien, performer; le
tout exécuté au cordeau ... Terrible!"

Emmanuel de Brantes

"Wonderful performance... original, professional and entertaining."
Chànna Galhenagé - Gogoparis.com

"Voici un jeune homme qui bouscule le panorama d'une pop routinière, à
suivre de très près."

Remy Kolpa Kopoul


Après avoir marché sur Le Fil de Camille, MaJiKer présente aujourd'hui un concert live et unique, avant goût appétissant de son premier album à venir: Body-Piano-Machine (BPM).

Cet auteur et producteur anglais de 27 ans travaille et vit à Paris depuis 2005, date de la sortie de l'album de Camille Le Fil (qu'il a co-réalisé). Depuis la fin de la tournée internationale du Fil, il a produit les albums (à venir) de jeunes auteurs et interprètes : Sacha Bernardson (de Bordeaux), Mélissa Laveaux (d'Ottowa) ainsi que le 3eme album (Music Hole) de Camille. Parallèlement à cela, il a trouvé le temps d'enregistrer son premier album solo et d'en créer un événement scénique innovant.

Trois instruments, trois sources, trois couleurs:

Rouge, le sang qui bat dans nos veines, notre boite à rythme interne, la percussion primaire et incessante de notre corps humain.
Du ton le plus profond du Blues au saphir Rhapsody, le piano; une invention classique qui dénote sophistication et mélancolie.
Décoré de vert électrique, le clavier d'enfant: Yamaha PSS 270, affiche le nom de ses sons absurdes et programmés. A l'intérieure de la machine, les câbles sont soudés dans sa chair d'émeraude.

Sur scène comme dans son album, ces 3 instruments sont les seuls a être entendus dans ses chansons . C'est une bataille entre chair, bois et plastique, entre veines entremêlées, cordes et câbles; un triptyque homogène: the Body, the Piano, the Machine.

Pour cet événement, Bénédicte Le Lay, artiste de scène, a collaboré avec MaJiKer dans la mise en scène. Elle sera aussi interprète théâtrale, explorant et enrichissant les concepts et textures des morceaux à travers mouvements, création d'images et de textes.

MaJiKer
Body-Piano-Machine -
Live Performance
avec Bénédicte Le Lay
- special guests include Camille
le 04 mars 2008
à 20h30
Entrée - 12 euros
Réservations aux points de ventes habituels (avec commission)

Point Ephemere
200 quai de Valmy
75010 Paris
http://www.pointephemere.org/
www.myspace.com/majiker

Wednesday, 29 August 2007

Blogs and Bangles

Hello, Bonjour etc.

Welcome to my brand new blog.

My name is MaJiKer, . I am a music producer and songwriter, as well as a stage performer. I've worked with several artists, including French singer/songriter Camille, whose award-winning album Le Fil, I produced with her. I've also recently finished my own album entitled "Body-Piano-Machine (BPM)" which you can preview on my MySpace page. I'll fill you in on some of my other collaborations in due course... watch this space! Well, more accurately, READ THIS BLOG.

I want to use this blog not only to share my opinions on and analyses of certain pieces of music that have thrilled or challenged me, but also to share some of my experiences as my various collaborations and projects unfold.

Having massively enjoyed reading the brilliant Nico Muhly's blog, when I randomly woke up one morning with the following song by The Bangles, in my head, I just knew that I should create my own corner of the web to share my musings with others:

The Bangles - 'If She Knew What She Wants' (1986)


Things to note in this song (aside from the shockingly poor grammar):

* The gorgeous backing vocals (BV's) that characterise so much of The Bangles' work, apparently inspired by The Beach Boys, were most likely what lured this song into my dream-based subconscious, as rich contrapuntal backing harmonies are a passion of mine.

* There is a stark contrast in interpretation and texture between the almost robot-like backing vocals and the girly, dynamic lead, a contrast that is accentuated splendidly when the two lines reunite in unison at the end of the first line in this clip ("fine, fine fine") and again with "nothing from mine".

* The catchy backing vocal part for the chorus is teased in the calmer 'breakdown' chorus, by stripping the BV's down to a unison line "he'd be giving it to her" etc. so that when the full harmony version come back on "he can pretend to give her everything" the effect is positively orgasmic! Well, maybe that's just my reaction...

* The genius decision to leaves the BV's on their own at the end without the lead so that (as in Britney's "Baby... One More Time") the listener can latch on to both the lead and the BV part, making the song twice as catchy, and giving even the casual pop listener a taste of the joy of counterpoint

OK, well a first post about The Bangles can't be all bad, non? Please feel free to leave some comments below.

Where we go from here, you'll have to wait and see...




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