Name: FRENCH 79 with special guests Terror Jr
Start: 2022-05-12T20:00:00-07:00
End: 2022-05-13T00:30:00-07:00
Location: Popscene @ Rickshaw Stop

FRENCH 79 with special guests Terror Jr

San Francisco's long-running weekly indie partyPopsceneshowcases new and emerging artists each week and our resident DJs Aaron Axelsen and Omar spin the very best of indie, britpop, post-punk, electronic, synthpop and more.Popsceneis every Friday at Rickshaw Stop, though we'll occasionally throw parties at other fine Bay Area venues, too. So yeah, come out and dance and check out some amazing new bands and DJs @ Popscene

POPSCENE

Popscene and Rickshaw Stop Presents
FRENCH 79
+ special guests Terror JR
thursday, may 12
8pm doors, all ages, plus DJ Omar (Popscene)

Popscene @ Rickshaw Stop

French 79

Terror Jr

<p>In 2014, French 79 appeared on a music scene limited to the French territory, or
so he thought. Within just a few months it quickly became an international hub
that elevated the artist's career. The single Between the Buttons, a
contemplative, synth heavy gem enhanced by a beautiful arpeggiator, excepted
from his first EP Angel, instantly placed him on the list of today's most important
producers. This first successful attempt enriched the tracklist of the
album Olympic, alongside another pop gem, "Diamond Veins," a duet with North
American diva Sarah Rebecca. The album was quickly met with a worldwide
audience, paving the way for Simon Henner to acquire over 150 concerts around
the Globe. This led him to becoming an ambassador for Marseille's electronic
scene -- a territory he had already stepped into with the various projects of
Husbands, Nasser and Kid Francescoli.
Joshua is the follow-up album to Olympic. While the second album, typically,
often shows what critics call "maturity," here Simon has released instead an
album of adolescence. The musician opened up his own memory box to
contemplate his childhood souvenirs, and dust them off of all nostalgia. At that
time, he would VHS-record movies from TV and tape record soundtracks directly
from the TV speaker, so he could listen to them in his bedroom. This is when
he "discovered the power of music, the way it makes you enter another world, far
from reality. I wanted to pay tribute to the era I shaped myself in -- the '80s and
'90s." Tangerine Dream, Kraftwerk and Soft Machine. Logically, these are the
sonic signatures that seem to haunt the album. The timeless pioneers of
synthetic music constitute the sound references, without any established
chronological timeline, that blend with the atmosphere of typically "French Touch"
movie soundtracks -- long before the term was even coined. "I use a musical
palette that acts as a flashback to my favourite teenage movies: the synth
sounds of Close Encounters of the Third Kind; the synth pads in Jean-Jacques
Cousteau's fascinating documentaries about the sea world; the melodies in the
manner of François De Roubaix; the themes that evoke the soundtracks of latenight
TV sessions (those by Verneuil, those with Belmondo, Depardieu, etc.); and
the sci-fi ambiences like in Blade Runner." In short, an aesthetic was decided on
by Simon very early on: French analog synths instead of North American
symphonic orchestras.
The name Joshua has two meanings for French 79: one is linked to the idea of
nostalgia, the other to adventure. On the one hand, the computer in the 1983
movie Wargames, and on the other, the boat of French sailor Bernard Moitessier.
The track titled Joshua synthesizes the spirit of the album -- an odyssey, a
neverending crossing of the world in search of oneself, a spontaneous escape
into the future, under the benevolent eye of the past. This epic invites everyone
of us to a specific place in our imagination, which is also the source of an
indescribable pleasure for French 79: a gust of wind, a sailboat ride, a
skateboarding trick, the smell of freshly fallen snow, or the dull roar of an
impatient audience.
The same aesthetic preferences are found in the videos that illustrate Joshua's
first tracks: for Hold On, the skateboarder chose to recall the cult '90s skate
videos that he would watch on repeat as a teenager, while Hometown hints
at Close Encounters of the Third Kind. Although he now calls Marseille home,
Simon continuously draws with passion from the anachronic contemporaneity of
his childhood in the Eastern French region.
"I need escape to be able to create. A two or three-day sailing trip gives me
enough inspiration to lock myself in the studio for a week when I'm back on dry
land." His boat takes him far away from everything, far from the Old Port where
she moors, the rest of the time Simon would escape by walking the streets of his
city or climbing the Alpine mountains.
Not only does the new version French 79 reveal a few biographical pieces of
Simon henner's history, but it also inaugurates the first vocal track for the
musician. One feels a guilty pleasure when hearing him take the lead on the first
track, The Remedy. The electronic fugue that opens the album sets the tone:
Simon has found the cure for his inner turmoil and wants us to discover our own
treatment too. Hold Onis a sonic explosion that celebrates the feeling of freedom
-- what's more of a teenage dream than this feeling -- and it eventually command
one to feel the same way too. Echoing Olympic, the electronic argonaut invites
his muse again, singer Sarah Rebecca. On By Your Side and Touch The Stars,
the native of Ocean Springs, Mississippi, now based in Paris, hoisted the
mainsail of dream pop. First, though a dialogue that surfaced their unfailing
attachment to the bonds of friendship, then through the light hearted atmosphere
that leaves us with no choice but to believe in our own dreams and do anything
possible to fulfill them. The quest for peace in the midst of the daily din is heard
in both Code Zero and the title track Joshua, two majestic journeys in search of
hedonism, combined with introspection.</p>

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