On his sophomore LP, ‘Moda,’ Kazy Lambist continues to ship his infectious model of electro-pop, all whereas recruiting a global record of visitors and lengthening his artistic partnership with fellow French producer, Glasses.
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As a child in Southern France, Arthur Dubreucq had lots at his fingertips.
French Contact, a preferred Eurodisco subgenre from the flip of the millennium, was simply accessible to him in his native Montpellier. So was Cinémed, the town’s cross-Mediterranean movie pageant he would attend each summer season whereas rising up. With so many sources for creative inspiration like these round, Dubreucq was understandably drawn to the trail of the performer himself. He achieved this primary by becoming a member of a rock group along with his faculty associates, then individually as an EDM producer. As his profession progressed, he took on the stage identify of Kazy Lambist, primarily based on a kind of drink he had found whereas doing an change program in British Columbia.
After toying with SoundCloud for some time, as many growing artists do, Kazy Lambist lastly launched his debut EP, Doing Yoga, in 2015, which was adopted three years later by his first full-length album, 33 000 FT.
Monsieur Lambist returned with a follow-up LP this summer season entitled Moda; its musical soundscape honors the French Contact/electro-pop music that he consumed whereas rising up and of which he has been crafting his personal model all through the previous decade.
The document additionally speaks to his cultural sensitivity – within the spirit of his beloved Cinémed movie pageant, Moda promotes the present cultural scene throughout the Mediterranean area, making room for visitor artists from France, Italy and Turkey (all of which Dubreucq frolicked dwelling in all through the making of Moda, which is even named for the nook of Istanbul the place he arrange store for some time).
Shortly after the discharge of Moda this previous summer season, Kazy Lambist spoke to Atwood Journal concerning the creation of the album, in addition to his expertise selling his new music by way of a great variety of live performance and pageant appearances on each side of the Atlantic.
Learn our interview beneath, and dive into Moda, out now!
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A CONVERSATION WITH KAZY LAMBIST
This interview was initially performed in French. It has been translated and edited for size and readability.
Atwood Journal: Are you able to discuss your creative origins? Rising up in Montpellier in Southern France, what kind of music have been you uncovered to, and the way did it encourage you to pursue music your self?
Kazy Lambist: I began by studying how one can play the piano as a child. My mother and father set me up with classes and I practiced it for seven years. As soon as I made it to center faculty, I began studying guitar in order that I may play together with my associates and kind a rock group with them. We performed collectively all through center and highschool, and since I spotted how a lot I adored making music, I began writing my very own compositions after faculty. I experimented with lots of completely different kinds with out actually realizing what I used to be going to do with them. All of the whereas, I used to be finding out political science in school, uncertain of the place it could take me – if I used to be going to go work for the federal government, go into journalism, or no matter. However ultimately, I wound up doing a lot music on the aspect that it wound up changing into my full-time job.
Cool, and the way did you wind up going together with your stage identify, Kazy Lambist?
Kazy Lambist: I got here up with it a bit randomly as a result of it made me sound like an American producer. That was again once I was a young person and making music on SoundCloud. I preferred it and thought it was catchy, so I went with it. I wouldn’t have thought I’d nonetheless be utilizing that identify 15 years later, however that’s what ended up taking place.
Your oldest songs on Spotify are from 2014 – “Headson” and “Massive Fish.” In just a few sentences, how would you summarize the previous 10 years since these songs got here out and the way you’ve grown artistically throughout that point?
Kazy Lambist: After I began out, I knew nothing. At first, I wasn’t making music for a dwelling, however extra simply to share it with my associates. In 2014-15, I made just a few tracks right here and there whereas working odd jobs. Then, I gained a neighborhood music contest round that point, and it opened extra doorways for me. If I take into consideration what’s modified between then and now, I really feel like I’ve discovered my footing in music-making extra and settled extra on what it’s I wish to do.
In my early profession, issues have been loopy. I loved myself but it surely was a interval the place I didn’t at all times take the time to consider what I needed to attain with every venture. I really feel like I’m extra meticulous these days.
Let’s discuss your new album, Moda. The primary single off of it was “Cinémed,” which was impressed by your expertise on the Competition du Cinéma Méditerranéen in your hometown of Montpellier. Are you able to speak extra about how attending this pageant influenced your new batch of music?
Kazy Lambist: Sure, yearly since I used to be a child, I’ve gone to see lots of the brief movies which were screened at that pageant. It was tremendous attention-grabbing to me to see motion pictures from throughout the Mediterranean area there. Alone album, I’ve made an analogous effort to characteristic visitor artists from a number of completely different Mediterranean nations. It was my method to thank this pageant for having given me among the cultural consciousness that has helped me out lots as a musician.
How did the manufacturing of the album go for you?
Kazy Lambist: I largely produced this album with my longtime buddy and colleague, Glasses, with whom I first collaborated in 2018 on the monitor “Love Music.” We wound up co-producing 5 songs that seem on Moda collectively, together with the only, “Moda Disko.” That set the stage for the remainder of the album, which is essentially made up of collaborations. They’re artists who I like and admire and who gave me the inspiration to finish this album and share it with the general public.
They vary from Emile Londonien, a brilliant English jazz group; to Sedef Sebüktekin, a Turkish singer whose voice I liked and who I encountered at a pageant in Turkey; to Fotini Peluso, an Italian actress with whom I did an interview during which she recited the poetry of Pier Paolo Pasolini. I spent two years dwelling in Rome in the course of the manufacturing of the album, the place Pasolini was from, and so I heard his identify come up lots round city. It made sense that an actress from Rome would quote Pasolini herself as nicely.
I needed to focus on the varied cultures that I encountered whereas I used to be finishing this album throughout the completed venture.
How would you describe the interval following the discharge of the album on June twenty first?
Kazy Lambist: Proper up till June twenty first, I used to be feeling wired as I labored to resolve each little element I may earlier than the album’s launch and to advertise my music throughout the online and social media. So, as quickly as I lastly put out the album, I went off to Sicily to sit back out a bit and disconnect from Instagram. My response to the album’s launch was mainly, “Phew, it’s lastly over!” It was good to take a little bit of a summer season trip and really feel liberated from a venture that had taken me a very long time to finish. It was a reduction to have it over, and now I had extra time to reconnect with associates and share my work with them.
How did your current tour in the USA go? Was it a great expertise?
Kazy Lambist: Sure, it was my first time touring within the U.S., though I’d gone to go to just a few occasions earlier than, and it was a brilliant expertise. I used to be touring alongside the electro-pop duo Child Francescoli. I’d met their founding member, Mathieu Hocine, who, like me, is from Southern France, and we bought alongside nicely. For him, it was his third time touring within the U.S., and he knew lots of the ins and outs of American live performance venues. I benefited lots from the data he handed on to me.
It was good to carry out every night time after which get up the subsequent morning in a brand new metropolis; we bought to find lots of new locations. It was encouraging to see that we already had made lots of followers so far-off from house, they usually gave us a heat welcome every time. We really began in Canada with just a few reveals in Quebec Metropolis, Montreal and Toronto. Then, we went all the way down to the U.S. and hit up Boston and New York, then made our method throughout the nation and completed up in San Francisco and Los Angeles. It was a childhood dream come true!
Do you may have another initiatives on the horizon now that you simply’ve completed your most up-to-date album?
Kazy Lambist: I’ve some festivals arising in France this summer season, after which within the fall I’ll be performing some extra reveals throughout Europe in international locations like England, Spain, Italy, and Germany. They’re international locations that I’m excited by visiting and it’s going to be enjoyable to take action. For now, I’m extra targeted on selling my newest music than on creating extra of it. I’m attempting to get folks to hearken to the album in full, as an alternative of simply listening to the singles or watching the music movies or no matter.
The rest you’d wish to share?
Kazy Lambist: I wish to announce that I’ll be acting at Olympia in Paris on Might twenty eighth subsequent 12 months. It’s been my dream to play in that legendary live performance venue and I’m so trying ahead to it.
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