Crafting a genre-crossing brand of Alt-Pop that is unmistakably his own, Conal Kelly combines driving grooves with smooth vocals, catchy melodies and dreamy guitars, resulting in a refreshing yet accessible strain of modern indie music.
Having played in various projects together for years, Conal (vocals/guitar), Ben Carver (bass/synths) and Harry Reid (drums/percussion) sound like so much more than just a three piece when on stage together. Honing their sound in venues around Bristol and beyond, the trio are set for an exciting time ahead as they hit the ground running for their debut year as a band.
Lazuli, a band from the south of France, was formed in 1998. Somewhere between rock, progressive rock and world music, poetry and travel, the remarkable music of Lazuli visit new territories with a rather unusual instrumentation: marimba, French Horn, drums, percussions, guitars, vocals…but also and especially a unique instrument created by Claude Leonetti: the Léode.
For Lazuli’s musicians, songs are canvases on which they mix colours to paint their own world. The floating voice, playing with words, sings out "man" in all of his facets. Lazuli brings atypical notes of originality to France’s musical scene and carries them across its border.
Le milieu du Rock est peu propice à l'exportation de la langue de Molière, on le sait, mais Lazuli efface les frontières. En quelques années, le groupe est devenu l'ambassadeur de la France sur les plus grosses scènes internationales de Rock Progressif. Ses notes et ses mots sont devenus langage universel.
Héritier des Peter Gabriel et autres Pink Floyd, le groupe Gardois se distingue par sa singularité, son instrumentation peu courante et l'invention d'un instrument unique: La Léode.
Quelque part entre rock, chanson, électro et world, la musique atypique de Lazuli, onirique, exploratrice, nous mène hors des sentiers battus. Lazuli envisage ses chansons comme des toiles, mélange les couleurs, dépeint son monde ou le repeint. Quelque part entre Jacques Prévert et Tim Burton, les mots questionnent les maux du temps présent. La voix aérienne, funambulesque, tout en jeu de mots, nous chante l'homme sous toutes ses formes et ses "déformes". Tour à tour on plane ou on est pris dans la tourmente, le temps se suspend ou s'accélère.
