Boonghusa (Joakim Remix)

1 La Gaviota 1

2 Tree Flip

3 Drianke

4 Cosmos

5 Ondine

6 The Reindeer

7 Kimono

8 Au Revoir

9 Dude

Lead by Laurent Bardainne (Poni Hoax), David Aknin (DPZ, Insult Reason … ), Maxime Delpierre (Viva & the Diva, Paris) and Frédéric Soulard (Maestro), LIMOUSINE composes instrumental music, both pop and jazz.
Contemplative and sensual, LIMOUSINE’s music gracefully undulates to stretch time and admire silences. To the point that the four boys, fascinating and mesmerizing on stage, have been elected France’s musicians with the best hairstyle by the online magazine CrissCross, according to which «kings of the hair waves, Limousine are none the less princes of the sound waves”.
as far remote from virtuosos aspirations as from pure minimalism, LIMOUSINE successfully expresses with a few notes what others would write on several pages, and fully embraces the creation of songs without lyrics yet full of emotions.
Untitled, this is how their first album, released in 2005 on the Chief Inspec- tor label, presented itself. It was testifying, with as much force as delicacy, of the band’s love for soundtracks composed by the likes of angelo Badalamenti for David lynch, neil young’s for Jim Jarmusch’s Deadman or ry Cooder for Wim Wenders’ Paris, Texas...
This is also probably why members of the Broadcast Club (autour de Minuit) chose the track Lila, featured on this album, to illustrate their short film of the same name, which went on to win an award at the Clermont-Ferrand Festival (jury’s prize, Télérama 2009 prize) and was nominated for the 2010 Césars (French film awards).
With «II», recorded at the Pigalle studios, LIMOuSInE goes further still by stating that as musicians coming from jazz and activists of the French independent scene, their influences also include the likes of Brian Eno or Air (Cosmos, Goodbye). References to their first album however transpire on titles such as Drianke or The Reindeer, used in the trailer of Bruno Dumont’s new film, Hors Satan, presented this year at the Cannes film festival, as part of the Un Certain Regard selection.
Visionary, this is what eventually should characterize the music of LIMOUSINE: Through nine titles and as many stories, the boys have reached beyond a nostalgia that nevertheless seems to hover above the album.

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