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Frànçois and the Atlas |
Mountains |
www.kidfrancois.com
www.myspace.com/francoisinbristol
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Bristol, population 400.000. Situated in the south east of England, it looks like a cute town, alive, full of culture, humid, torrid... it is a port-town. During the XVIII century it was involved in the peak of the slave trade, and was the hub of this awful industry.
Several centuries later it wasn't the tears and blood of those poor souls, but the sweat of the youth, which seeped over the most fertile dance floors of the east Atlantic.
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And Bristol became once again the hub for the slaves, trapped by rhythm, marked and turned on by Reprazent's new forms, or chained to the fogs of Third Eye Foundation, Amp, Flying Saucer Attack, Crescent, Movietone...
We don't know what it was that drew Frànçois from France to Bristol in September 2003, but since then, his creativity hasn't stopped surprising us. Starting with bands such as Crescent or Movietone, who have populated his Atlas Mountains , he has written songs where language blows away all borders, this being pop made in England . It so happens that the Frenchmen of the isles have revolutionized the style - just look at Wenger's Arsenal - and managed for the continent to be seen from the top of the old cliffs with admiration.
On top of that, Frànçois makes beautiful animation movies, that you will be able to discover during his upcoming tour, starting in UK and visiting France, Belgium and Luxembourg.
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Lejos has released "Tour de France" just in time for last summer European tour. This was a presentation EP, in advance of his forthcoming new album, to be out in 2008.
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FRÀNÇOIS "Tour de France" CD-r
LEJ 006 (June 2007) Sold out |
01 Tour de France
02 The song of the drowning man
03 Katrina
04 How the kids loose their head
05 Go back to work |
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Charente by Frànçois |
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Autumn 2007 - Concerts - Cancelled
European tour visiting UK, France, Belgium and Luxembourg. Check all the dates.
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2/10/07 - News (English version not ready yet, sorry)
Frànçois and the Atlas Mountains han sido recientemente motivo de atención por parte de la prensa musical francesa. Sus canciones han sonado en el programa « C'est Lenoir » de France Inter, mientras que « Les Inrockuptibles » publicaba a finales de julio, N° 609-611, una elogiosa crítica de su álbum "The People to Forget". Y este mismo semanario francés en su N° 616 elegían "Revu"- ese maravilloso hit de su primer álbum "Les Anciennes Falaises"- en su lista de descargas de la semana. Vosotros podéis bajárosla aquí. Y si os conquista, podeis compraros el disco en la web de Frànçois.
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14/7/07 - Podcast
Les Inrocks Podcast vol.46 with Mark Ronson ("Stop Me (Dirty South Remix)"), Shout Out Louds ("Tonight I Have To Leave It"), Okkervil River ("Our Life Is Not A Movie Or May Be"), Tahiti Boy & The Palm Tree Family ("1973") and Frànçois ("Revu"). |
12/3/07 - Article
EPIGRAM online. Bristol University's Independent Student Newspaper
"The optimum position I could be in would be to be able to stay free to make the music I truly want to. I don't expect my music to take me anywhere, but I want to take my music and art as far as I can." ( ...+) |
LEJOS DISCOS. Spain. Contact: info @ lejosdiscos.com |
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