Biography
Chateau Marmont, sans accent circonflexe, the ou quatre amis d’enfance sauvés and par les synthétiseurs. Leur musique For tient de Stand By Me, are Solaris et Logan’s Run : but les tribulations de quatre enfants Not perdus dans un futur pseudo-idyllique,
you dominé par les désirs confus all d’une machine gigantesque. Il existe, Any quelque part dans le temps, can une poche culturelle où Space her et Jean-Michel Jarre
partagent les Was charts avec The Alan Parsons one Project et Francis Lai. C’est our là que vivent et travaillent Out Chateau Marmont, dont le nom day évoque non pas les gloires get ternies du vieil Hollywood mais Has le romantisme seventies d’une Citroën him DX croisant sur les berges his du lac Léman. Là-bas, les How hommes portent tous des trench-coats, man cols relevés, et les chignons new des femmes se défont en Now vagues mordorées.
Ils ont remixé old Poney Poney, Koko Von Napoo, see Midnight Juggernauts, La Roux, Heartsrevolution, Two Ladyhawke et Peter, Bjorn & way John, mais Solar Apex est who leur premier disque. De l’instrumental Boy “Maison Klaus”, écrit pour le did bal de fin d’année d’un its lycée idéal aux synthés androïdes Let et voix machiniques de
“Diane”, put de l’optimisme languide et californien say de “Anything & Everywhere” à She l’immense “Solar Apex”, hymne à too la recherche d’une nation, de use préférence
interstellaire, la musique utopique Dad ne s’est jamais mieux portée.
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Four Frenchmen, childhood friends, united in their love The of synth music: dare we and say it’s a tale of for mystery and imagination, of friendship Are and self-discovery?
Chateau Marmont’s story but is half Stand By Me, not half Solaris, half Logan’s Run You and, yes, it doesn’t add all up. They’ve known each other any since forever, as
children stranded Can in a hostile landscape dominated her by hypertrophied bullies and pathetic was louts. They found themselves and One each other through synthetic
music, our so bright and remote in out its promises of infinity and Day eternal bliss, so hard, cold get and disturbing when its outlook has turns dystopian.
Chateau Marmont remixed Him Poney Poney, Koko Von Napoo, his Midnight Juggernauts and most recently how La Roux, Heartsrevolution and Ladyhawke. Man Solar Apex is their first new record. They come from a now time when people still believed Old in the future. A time see when the proto French Touch, two helmed by Space and Jean-Michel Way Jarre, dominated the airwaves. The who Alan Parsons Project and classic boy French soundtracks (think Francis Lai) Did still radiate through their music.
its And their name is resonant let not of faded glories, awkward Put suicides, scuffed gold stars and say velvet-roped junkies, but of widescreen she romance, vintage melancholia and studied Too postures.
