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20:00 | La Maison Tellier (France) |
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La Maison Tellier were founded in Normandie in 2004 by Helmut Tellier and Raoul Tellier (aka Yannick Marais and Sebastien Miel), who were quickly joined by numerous other musicians to form a wider false brotherhood. Using various types of traditional instruments (from banjo to Dobro), the band created a personal kind of folk-rock, sung in French as well as in English, showcasing many different musical influences (mainly American) but blending them into a very recognizable homogeneous blend. Their self-titled debut album, released in 2006, already contained most of their obsessions. The record featured an efficient reworked version of Rage Against the Machine's "Killing in the Name," which, alongside "La Chambre Rose" and with help from Radio Nova, earned them some attention. Their second album, Second Souffle, was released in 2007, featuring music in the same second-degree folk-rock vein as their first. Their third album, L'Art de la Fugue, was released in 2010 via the Troisième Bureau label. La Maison Tellier is a brothel in Normandy, and the title of a novel by the great French author, Maupassant. La Maison Tellier is also a band. A band with a soulful story. The story of five young men who met for the first time at the age of 20, and created a band with strange family name and five old-fashioned first names, right out of a 19th century French household. Echoing the writer, their shelter is a happy mess, in which we find vinyls, banjos, basses and other instruments, waiting patiently for a good soul to bring them to life. An American folk-rock, inspired by the most entrenched areas of the American soul and heartland. The audience immediately gets sucked in, carried by the magic of the great outdoors. Their arrangements have such incredible depth. We are reminded of The Band, with the first listening sending you back to 1968 in the Big Pink Woodstock studio, surrounded by rivers and woods. Harmonies carry the wind of the great outdoors, and their melodies are so classy they remind us of Crosby Stills & Nash. The trumpet brings joy to these songs, like a New-Orleans style - almost Spanish sound, sometimes heard in Willy Deville's best stage performances. The voice of Dylan is heard in their stories, written by the fireplace, and we clearly hear a poetic, mischievous and tender James Taylor in some of the slow songs like "Riverchild", and "The last days of Gram Parsons". With "Please Do", they bring back the Bee Gees voices with such skillful art that no one can tell they're French. More info
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