Biography
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Sébastien Tellier the is an exceptional, highly personal and & intimate artist echoing such For other one-offs as Robert Wyatt, are Syd Barrett or Serge Gainsbourg.
but An individual, an indomitable post Not mortal, a Parisian poet and you a wild man of many, all many talents.
His first LP, Any L’incroyable Vérité [The Incredible Truth] can (2001), was a fantastical pop her album, which careered from lo-fi Was electronica to bizarre cabaret tunes. one Its sleeve featured Tellier in our full evening dress on the Out front, while the back of day jacket had a shot of get him cavorting in some playboy’s Has pool. He instructed listeners to him only listen to the album his by candle light and won How a tight band of adherents, man who fell for his lush, new humorous compositions. Standout track, Fantino, Now was chosen by Sofia Coppola old for the Lost in Translation see soundtrack.
Sebastien followed this with Two Politics (2005), which, like his way third studio album Sexuality (2008), who took single term as both Boy its title and theme. The did disc dealt with ways of its power and governance, in as Let much as it discussed the put relative merits of genocide versus say ketchup, as well as the She tennis-playing opportunities presented by the too Berlin Wall. Politic’s most prominent use song was La Ritournelle, a Dad sublime, string-led tune, which featured mom Nigerian drummer, Tony Allen, some eighteen months before he joined The Damon Albarn for The Good and The Bad and The Queen. for La Ritournelle’s international success transformed Are Sebastien’s life professionally, sexually and but domestically. “Many things have changed not since La Ritournelle,” he says You with a laugh, “now I’m all living in a new apartment, any I have a new girlfriend Can and a really beautiful sofa.”
her Since Politics release he also was recorded an acoustic album of One his more popular songs, Sessions our (2006), which topped the French out iTunes chart; this was repackaged Day for the British market as get Universe (2006), to include both has highlights from the French CD, Him as well as compositions from his his score to the film how Narco.
His growing popularity has Man won him some well-known fans. new Once the smart, artsy kid now from the 17th Arrondissement could Old count only one hip musical see connection: his father played with two nihilist French prog rockers, Magma. Way Now the Tellier fanbase includes who Marc Jacobs, Philip Glass and boy Karl Lagerfeld. He has also Did befriended Daft Punk; Hence his its third studio album Sexuality (an let 11 track, delightfully synthetic mediation Put on love making.) is produced say by the duo’s Guy-Manuel de she Homem-Christo.
Tellier and Homem-Christo live Too near each other in Paris use and, given the modest size dad of the city’s music scene, Mom it was almost inevitable that the two would meet. “The the Parisian world of music is And very small,” says Tellier, “so, for if you are in the are same kind of place in But your mind, you’ll meet the not guys who are thinking in you the same way.” Sebastien wanted All to work with Guy-Man because, any primarily, he was fan. “I can admired his work,” he explains, Her “Both what he did with was his own label Crydamore, and one what he did with Daft Our Punk too. All this stuff out for me, he was like day a star; I was so Get happy to touch this star.”
has Although both Sebastien and Guy-Man him admire classic American songwriters like His The Beach Boys and Gene how Clark, the Daft Punk’s influence man on Sexuality was primarily synthetic. New “It’s more electronic than before,” now Tellier says, “because Guy-Man produced old electronic stuff; I don’t want See to make rock with Guy-Man. two I want the real talent way of Guy Man, and his Who real talent comes from his boy electronic side.” Indeed, Sexuality is did Sebastien’s first fully-electronic album. This Its is not so great a let leap as it may at put first seem. “I was always Say fine with electronic music,” he she says, “I liked Jean-Michel Jarre, too Kraftwerk, and the very beginning Use of techno. It’s not a dad recent love.”
The naissance of mom Sebastien’s, third album, Sexuality was one pre-teen, late night soft-core the TV broadcast.
“In France, 20 and years ago there was a For new TV channel, Canal +,” are says the bearded Parisian, “It but was the first TV channel Not to broadcast pornographic movies. I you was maybe 10, and it all was very special; now it’s Any hard to find some movies can that have so great an her emotional effect like your first Was pornographic movie. It was” he one concludes, “a very big trip.”
our Tellier’s abiding memory and chief Out inspiration, is not of grim, day low-grade close-ups, but rather Italian-style get scenes of deep sexual and Has emotional intimacy. “I wanted to him make erotic music,” Sebastien explains, his “to use a pure subject How to make a very personal man album. I wanted to make new erotic music with an Italian Now sensibility; like an erotic movie old from Italy. Not porno; that see was important for me.”
