Lyrics :

Nothing further than my childhood,
Roman empire seems closer, 
Don’t know if i destroyed or built
my life since beginnings
I love dream, right there, i love dream

La folie des grandeurs in me,
More or less colonized by some
On what model should i construct ?
Why do i feel that ?
I am lost, right now, i am lost

I’ve been there enough to feel like home
The River Slowly Gets Drier
So my eyes do the same, i accept
Authenticity is inside all that exists

I used to jump around the cliff, 
Ardeche du Sud, 
rapid, mud, rock,
half lake with summer water from the dam,
What is nature ?
I love swim, right there, i love swim

Ideas unclear, weird emotions, 
search my repères, grand obsessions, 
the doubt, the pain, the missed joy, was it joy ? i’ve been lost 
I am still, right now, i am still

I’ve been there enough to feel like home
The River Slowly Gets Drier
So my eyes do the same, i accept
Authenticity is inside all that exists




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The River Slowly Gets Drier

In France, when i ask « what kind of music do you listen to? » 
Most people answer « j’écoute de Tout ».
When people ask me what kind of music i do, 
I can say « Le Tout » !
It’s my own musical genre, it’s my philosophy, it’s an approach of reinforcing ties instead of retire ourself in a caricatural box behind some society walls. 

In my childhood, in La Savoie🇫🇷, i spent most of my free hours in the activity of imagination.
Imagining grandiose destinies, but also standard and common stories.. :
From fishers in the Philippines to western rockstars,
From 19th century wars to post-collapse scenarios,
From my own Star Wars spin-offs to projections of myself onstage later,
From machines that could fly to realistic routines of the French middle class…
For me, everything is interesting.
My life was built through imagining & connecting lives. 
It was obvious that i would someday create characters, 
partly because expressing my whole personality cannot be done by simply embodying 1 cliché role given by the society. 

I started music imitating my favorite pop&rock&electro stars, 
developing my high head voice, in an interactive dance with my original deep low voice.
This gap drives me to a versatile approach, expressing my mixed personality with my polyvalent voice, a voice that i also often use with no words, to express emotions like with another instrument, but deeply human, with articulations and tones directly from what’s inside my vibes & inspirations.

I sing mostly in english, i want to limit the borders of the language. 
I keep my accent and i use some french words, i want to show that behind my « Folie des Grandeurs » and behind my characters, there’s the real me. 

My approach is questioning what’s music, art, humans and the rest, by sincerely doing the music I want to do, as wide as it might be.

My first official single, « The River Slowly Gets Drier », 
is something that abstractly represent my memories of the region of « Ardèche du Sud »🇫🇷, with acoustic folk influences, 
a vibe that makes me think of the west of the west, but it’s actually not really that, that’s why i say « more or less colonized by some »,« authenticity is inside all that exists » … 
This song inspired me the creation of the character « Paul Darivan, a farmer from an unknown place », that’s him that i embody on all my modern networks content for this special song.


My next single will be a strongly different vibe, a new character that rarely meet the other one, but still through me. Still me. 



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