Sébastien Tellier

Sébastien Tellier is certainly a multifaceted instrumentalist/singer from Paris, France’s 17th Arrondissement, an elongated arts-and-culture-rich territory located close to the Arc de Triomphe as well as the Champs Élysées. After Tellier’s “Fantino,” a forlorn and gorgeous pop confection, made an appearance on the foundation label’s 1999 Resource Materials various-artists compilation, it captured the hearing of fellow labelmates Nicolas Godin and Jean-Benoît Dunckel, better referred to as Air flow. The duo and their administration team eventually authorized Tellier with their personal Record Manufacturers imprint. Tellier documented the songs for his debut recording, L’Incroyable Vérité (The Incredible Truth), between Sept 1999 and March 2000, playing a lot of the devices and generating the classes. L’Incroyable Vérité premiered in June 2001. His following record didn’t show up until 2005. Politics was combined by Philippe Zdar of Cassius and presented a guest place by drummer Tony Allen of Fela popularity. The following 12 months Tellier re-recorded a batch of his tunes acoustically and released them beneath the name Periods (though in the U.K. it had been retitled Universe and included parts from Tellier’s soundtrack for the film Narco). For his following record, Sexuality, Tellier registered Daft Punk’s Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo as manufacturer and were left with a far more slickly digital audio than heard on his prior outings. The initial single in the record, “Divine,” was selected as France’s entrance in the 2008 Eurovision competition. Though he didn’t earn, his appearance as well as the controversy encircling it (many French commentators sensed that the British lyrics from the melody supposed it wasn’t “French” more than enough to represent the country) boosted his profile all over the world. This year 2010 Tellier released an record of remixes of music from Sexuality entitled Sexuality Remix. He came back with new materials in 2012 with My God Is definitely Blue, a spiritually minded group of tunes that presented a cooperation with de Homem-Christo within the name track. The next year saw the discharge of Confection, a assortment of passionate instrumentals much like his first albums. For 2014’s L’Aventura, that was documented at Jean Michel Jarre’s studio room in Bougival aswell as with Paris and Rio de Janeiro, Tellier added sunlit yet strange Brazilian components to his music.