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Mouad is a 26 year-old singer-songwriter and psychiatrist-to-be from Morocco.

Starting as a lead guitarist in his teenage years, he found himself shifting progressively into more song-centered music, with The Beatles, Nick Drake, Bob Dylan, Lou Reed and other classic singer-songwriters and bands back at the center of his attention. Later, modern "indie" acts such as Mac DeMarco, Anna B Savage, Oracle Sisters, Alice Phoebe Lou, The Lemon Twigs, Papooz... continued to inspire him.

Mouad has been writing songs about love, heartbreak, beauty and the human mind for a couple of years, and has finally decided to share them with the world. He seeks to emulate the effect of his favourite music on him; aiming to touch new listeners' souls the way that music touched him. That's the ultimate purpose of music, in his opinion.

Balancing a career in medicine and in music, he doesn't see that as a hurdle, but more like a blessing. Mouad hopes to incorporate his artistic and psychiatric interests to add Art Therapy to his specialties.

His music has been described as "melancholic, but sweet, dreamy", and "radiating a kind of Radiohead-meets-Paul-McCartney energy".

Valentin Z ne se cache pas, au contraire. Sa musique affirme. Pourtant, c’est par facettes qu’il faudra l’explorer
pour mieux tirer toute la saveur de sa poésie. Magicien autodidacte qui se promène en solitaire d’un style
musical à l’autre, on retrouve dans sa plume et ses mélodies quelque chose de Muse, Sch ou Thomas Azier.
Pourtant sa pop aux allures de variété française s’enrobe de sonorités hip-hop électronique savamment
maîtrisées. Toujours en clair obscur, sa sincérité le met à nu ou bien habille le monde avec pudeur : à l’image
de sa voix mouvante qui oscille avec brio, entre puissance torturée et douce vulnérabilité. Accompagné de son
piano, Valentin Z nous raconte ses mélancolies sombres mais jamais amères, et nous emporte avec lui au sein
d’une intimité vibrante, dont les velours sont emprunts d’une solitude qui dissèque, de sensualité et
d’intensité.
LE RENVERSEMENT PARTY le 17 mars 2024 au Point
Éphémère à Paris!!

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