Artists
Chris Cohen
Chris Cohen was always a quiet kid. In fact, this introversion was one reason he began playing music as a toddler: to communicate without speaking, to identify with others without the direct representation of words. It has worked, too, with Cohen’s terrific stint in the mighty Deerhoof and his own captivating art-rock act The Curtains, preceding production and session work for the likes of Weyes Blood, Kurt Vile, Le Ren, and Marina Allen.
Somewhere along that long way, Cohen started writing lyrics. He found that, though it didn’t come naturally, the process offered a new sense of self-discovery and reckoning, a way to see himself and the world from unexpected angles. His three twilit albums of casually complicated pop during the last decade radiated these epiphanies: handling family strife, navigating advancing age, and understanding social woes.
Raphaël s’améliore
(du moins il essaie…)
Faux loser raté par excellence, musicien bruxellois émérite (Le Colisée, Robbing Millions, Le Ton Mité) et collaborateur de choix des anglais Rozi Plain et Alabaster dePlume, Raphaël est aussi papa depuis peu. En plein cyclone, outre les trombes d’eau et de langes, tombent aussi à ses pieds des poissons-chansons miraculeux-ses qu’il décortique avec gratitude, crainte et amusement.
