Music
Music has been taking a huge place in my life for as long as I can recall. I started reading sheet-music at the same age I was learning words and started to play the Alto sax at age 6. I paused playing sax at age 13-something, stole a guitar from my dad and learned.
In my adult life, I’ve been playing guitar, lapsteel, bass and sax in a bunch of bands. In particular, I wrote recorded and co-produced the album Hysteresis from Kera, a progressive death metal band active from 2015 to 2020 (Listen to the opening in Figure 1).
My music is mostly Rock and Metal although I enjoy and play many different styles.
Below, you can watch and listen to some of my favourite’s.
Sax
Live music with Magoyond
The Band in a nutshell
MAGOYOND’s french alternative metal is worthy of a black cabaret, theatrical, macabre and disproportionate. Over the years, MAGOYOND has developed a unique and avant-garde musical style, mixing modern rock and metal sounds with the power of the cinematic symphony orchestra.
Sax and Zombies
I first played with Magoyond in 2016 on a single song for one live. In 2019, the band recorded the Kryptshow album where I recorded the sax parts of two songs :
- Vegas Zombie
- Le magasin des suicides
Since I was doing my PhD at that time, I only went on tour a few time. In 2020, In the mids of the pandemic, we recorded a studio live.
Trianon, November 2023
In Figure 2 we perform Vegas Zombie from the album Kryptshow released in 2019. This video was recorded in November 2024 at Le Trianon Paris and uses records from the audience.
Arsenic live session (2020)
In Figure 3 we recorded live a pseudo accoustic session with Magoyond and other guests. The setlist:
- Le pudding à l’arsenic
- Hector Zam
- Kraken Palace (Acoustic guitar)
- Le Magasin des suicides
Other guest-project
ZoiZo is a French song group with influences of jazz, rock, and soul, and includes some reinterpreted covers. In this cover of Where did you sleep last night ?, I play bass, sax and guitar.
Guitar
Shredding and glitters
Just after I sent my PhD dissertation to the jury, I decided to record a one shot at The Extremist, by Joe Satriani (1992). This album was one of my favourite when I was 16 and quite a challenge to play now that I am twice as old.
Covid covers against boredom
During the first lock-down of the Covid-19 pandemic, I started recorded one or two song every weekend with close friends and relatives. There is a total of 13 songs one can find on Youtube. Here are some of the bests.
Kera : progressive death metal
KERA was a Parisian progressive death metal band set up in November 2014. The band’s main influences are Textures, Hypno5e, Dream Theater, Opeth, Meshuggah and Gojira. After a first EP in November 2014, a single in February 2016, Kera Released a full album in November 2017.
Hysteresis is a concept album dealing with mental illness and the persistence of emotional traumas. Songs are rather long (5 out of 9 are longer than 7 minutes), and use lots of complex musical theme (modulations and non symmetric metrics). This album is inspired with all Kera’s influences, leading the auditor into its universe, in which violent and effective riff can be heard right after some aerial parts. Textures’ lead guitarist: Joe Tal plays the solo of the new version of Delusion.