Visual Electronic Music

S A Y C E T is Pierre Lefeuvre's Project ---

AN ORGANIC JOURNEY

At first glance, Saycet's journey may seem peculiar. In reality, it is extremely fluid, as if guided by an external force pushing towards the logical fulfillment of his destiny as a musician, composer and producer. A backward evolution away from our current era, which churns out artists non-stop – a path that has made Pierre Lefeuvre – the brain behind the project for the last 15 years – a figurehead in the French electronic music landscape.

When he released his first album, 2005’s One Day At Home, he built upon a genre that had fallen into relative disinterest: deliberately melancholy, errant electronic music, made somewhat more accessible by pop melodies and inventive, experimental beatmaking. An outsider by nature, he was nonetheless spotted by some influential media outlets, finding an international fan base that would remain faithful to him through the years.

With time, his creative work became more refined, and his influences merged into a highly personal approach that succeeded in linking a certain tradition of cerebral music with an opening to a wider audience. 2010’s Through The Window and 2015’s Mirage continued the project’s evolution towards a more timeless sound that shone through its arrangement work and an asserted versatility. Tours of Asia and collaborations (with Juliette Armanet and Yan Wagner among other) helped Saycet grow further (yet still outside of the mainstream’s radar,) nonetheless finding his niche on the international music map. His approach to live performances cemented his place as an innovator, always in search of new aesthetic grounds, with stage shows that implemented video projection as a source of lighting rather than as mere visual illustration, creating a truly immersive experience in the process. 

Somewhat accidentally, Lefeuvre opened the doors to composing via images – a logical, uncalculated continuation for this production artisan, whose composition work is nourished by visual art and cinematic culture. He created his first score – for the 2019 feature Un Vrai Bonhomme – and thus started making headways into the circle of pop music composers who work with filmmakers. He also composed all of the music for La Révolution, a French series produced by Netflix (to debut in the fall of 2020,) as well as a soundtrack (split with Laurent Garnier) for the Canal + documentary Bastard Lion.

An ideal preamble for a fourth album recorded in his brand-new Parisian studio, which promises to be his most accomplished work. Wavering between melodic piano pieces and powerful club tracks, the album will feature the two complementary energies that inform the unique artist's work.

Going forward, Saycet is also slated to be in residence in 2021 for a one-of-a-kind creative project built around the Château de Versailles’ architectural heritage and instruments.

Live Team, Zita Cochet: Scenography // Video

Albums featuring Vocalist: Phoene Somsavath (Through the Window & Mirages) / Yan Wagner / Juliette Armanet

The Shoes have been locked in dark rooms applying the finishing touches to their debut album due early 2011.
The French dynamic duo have been calling on all the friends they've met on their
travels over the last few years to help them realise their musical dreams. Its some guest list..and is testament to the contagious enthusiasm and er....'joie de vivre' that Guillaume and Ben always bring to their dj sets, remixes, live shows and late nights that this stella crew jumped at the chance to feature on the debut album.

Esser (Transgressive/Chocolate Industries) features on two tracks lending his distinctive vocal stylings and also banging the drums. Rumour has it that the next single in France will be the addictive 'Stay The Same' and a killer remix package is being assembled. Primary 1's on there but you know that already from the release on uber-cool 50 bones label a while back. The beats have been refreshed and the songs gone a little darker. Just how we like it. Tim from Liverpool mavericks 'Wave Machines' reassembled one of the tracks and got all sleazy on the lyrics - its going to make you blush. The Cock and Bull Kid did her thing on the dramatic groove of 'Cliche' which is drenched in middle eastern flavours. Looking for a pianist on the track 'Wolf Under The Moon' it could only be Gonzalez who's added his skills to this psychedelic pop track featuring our friends from Reims 'The Bewitched Hands On The Top Of Our Heads'. There's more but lets save some surprises.

To mix all these ingredients together into a musical delicacy The Shoes called on their friend Lexxx (Crystal Castles, Golden Silvers, Esser, Everthing Everything). A month holed up in darkest Hackney in a bizarre art deco apartment - Miami Vice via E8 - meant that the album could finally be completed. There's dancefloor moments that will be familiar to those that have kept abreast of the remixes (Primary 1, Marina and the Diamonds, Golden Silvers, Esser, Ladyhawke etc) over the last couple of years but there's also dark electronic pop songs that you're going to fall in love with.

The Shoes managed to squeeze a quick trip to Japan in where they ate sushi, shoppped relentlessly and even found the time to dj at the Womb in Tokyo and Osaka. Japanese friends The 80 Kidz were in Tokyo and begged The Shoes for a remix of their new single - Ben also added vocals to a track on their last album.

Oh yeah i forgot - we've got photos by the legendary 'GAVIN WATSON' taken earlier in the year down in Brighton. Look for classic Gavin photos adorning the French release of 'People Movin' and destined for future artwork...To be continued

Sometimes it takes a personal tragedy to catalyse an artist’s practise, a crack in everything, to paraphrase Leonard Cohen, that let’s the creative light in. Just such a traumatic fissure occurred in Charlotte Gainsbourg’s life in late 2013 with the sudden death in Paris of her half-sister, the fashion photographer Kate Barry. Reeling from the news and inevitably plunged into an extended period of grieving, the distressing event had transpired just as Charlotte was initiating activity on a new album, the successor to 2010’s IRM. Rather than put a total brake on creative proceedings, however, the anguish would slowly but inexorably find expression in the pages of Charlotte’s journal and thus, eventually, in the lyrics of the songs that she would write for Rest, her long-gestating but ultimately cathartic third studio album.

Bonjour, je suis compositrice de musique à l'image. Bienvenue dans mon univers musical !

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Although having grown up in greater Paris, it is in Germany that everything began for Sylvio B. Adopted by the queer community of Hamburg and notably Saeleen Bouvar who will teach him the "herstorical way of djing", Sylvio B (originally Sylvio Bouvar as a tribute to his mentor) is now creating his own path on the house music scene.

Inspired by Chicago house, ballrooms and electroclash, Sylvio B gathers styles and eras in his eclectic dj sets.

After having played in Berlin (Kater Blau, Fusion festival 2022, Suicide club, SchwuZ), Hamburg (PAL, Kampnagel), Amsterdam (IsBurning, Thuishaven, Pamela Amsterdam), London (Dalston Superstore), Antwerp (Club Capital), Nantes (Macadam) and Paris (Virage, Mustang, Carbone club, Pamela club, Bizarre Love Triangle..), Sylvio B, started producing and released his first track "Turn me out" on the media Les Disques du Lobby. Other tracks have followed since such as a remix of "The Oracle" (The Carry Nation & The Cucarachas) supported by Electronic Groove and receiving a warm welcome worldwide (played at Berghain / Panorama bar). His debut EP featuring Robert Owens has just been released and is receiving critical acclaim worldwide (Alinka, Josh Wink, Mystic Bill, The Carry Nation...).

31/10 - Flash Cocotte 🇫🇷
05/07 - La Station Paris 🇫🇷
29/06 - @glazart Paris🇫🇷
14/06 - @goodroombk New York🇺🇸
20/04 - @gimic.radio Brussels 🇧🇪
19/04 - @lebelgica Brussels 🇧🇪
12/04 - @macharising Paris🇫🇷
05/04 - @silencioclub Paris🇫🇷
31/03 - @rinsefrance 🇫🇷
28/03 - @doka_amsterdam Amsterdam 🇳🇱

**Past Events**
[02-11-2024] : Button X Body Language X Mustang (Paris, France)
[13-10-2024] : Humboldthain club (Berlin, Germany)
[12-10-2024] : HÖR (Berlin, Germany)
[03-10-2024] : Pamela (Paris, France)
[10-08-2024] : Oh Honey (Antwerp, Belgium)
[24-07-2024] : La Station Gare des Mines (Paris, France)
[13-07-2024] : Ma Soeur@ A la folie (Paris, France)
[07-06-2024] : Gauche London @ Dalston Superstore (London, UK)
[18-05-2024] : Golosa @ OXI (Berlin, Germany)
[02-05-2024] : Chantals House of shame (Berlin, Germany)
[27-04-2024] : Rinse France
[26-04-2024] : Bisou club (Paris, France)
[19-04-2024] : Mustang (Paris, France)
[29-12-2023] : BLT @ Silencio (Paris, France)
[16-12-2023] : JIM @ Nouveau Casino (Paris, France)
[01-12-2023] : Gauche London @ Dalston Superstore (London, UK)
[17-09-2023] : Thuishaven (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
[26-08-2023] : MESS(Paris, France)
[29-07-2023] : Unfug Rostock (Rostock, Germany)
[28-07-2023]  : SchwuZ (Berlin, Germany)
[27-07-2023]  : Suicide club (Berlin, Germany)
[21-07-2023]  : Carbone club (Paris, France)
[13-07-2023]  : BLT @ Wanderlust (Paris, France)
[01-07-2023]  : Pinkwashing @ Macadam (Nantes, France)
[23-06-2023]  : Kater Blau (Berlin, Germany)
[17-06-2023]  : BLT @ Silencio (Paris, France)
[03-06-2023]  : Deeper love @ Pamela club (Paris, France)
[07-05-2023]  : Bizarre festival X JIM (Paris, France)
[30-04-2023]  : Kinky Sundays (Hamburg, Germany)
[22-04-2023]  : Oh Honey (Antwerp, Belgium)
[21-04-2023]  : Carbone club (Paris, France)
[01-04-2023]  : Peaches & Cream x QRA @ Le Klub (Paris, France)
[17-02-2023]  : MUSTANG (Paris, France)
[11-02-2023]  : Pamela club (Paris, France)
[05-01-2023]  : Suicide club (Berlin, Germany)
[04-01-2023]  : Schwuz (Berlin, Germany)
[15-12-2022] : Sueurs chaudes (Paris, France)
[12-11-2022] : La Cité fertile (Paris, France)
[11-11-2022] : Carbone club (Paris, France)
[14-10-2022] : Pamela Amsterdam (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
[25-09-2022] : Cox (Paris, France)
[23-09-2022] : Quetzal (Paris, France)
[17-09-2022] : JIM club (Paris, France)
[02-09-2022] : Beautiful skin (Paris, France)
[26-08-2022] : MUSTANG (Paris, France)
[30-07-2022] : COX (Paris, France)
[07-07-2022] : Jim Afterwork (Paris, France)
[02-07-2022] : Fusion festival (Lärz, Germany)
[06-03-2020] : Le Salon Queertronique (Hamburg, Germany)

Played alongside : Boris, Alinka, Cormac, Chris Cruse, Tama Sumo, I-F, Rydim (Italo Johnson), Jason Kendig, Byron Yeates, Dj Sweet6teen,...

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