General Elektriks live @ La Maroquinerie, Paris

Infos sur le concert

Imaginez vous dans la fosse de La Maroquinerie surchauffée, blindée de monde et prête à en découdre avec General Elektriks aka RV Salters, ses claviers et sa dream team de zikos (Sébastien Martel, Jessie Chaton de Fancy entre autre)... Le live de GE fut d'une telle puissance funky et groovy. RV est fou: il saute et danse, jouant et slappant ses claviers avec une dextérité déconcertante. Habiter à San Francisco et trainer avec le Quannum crew (Blackalicious, DJ Vadim...) et faire le clavier pour The Mighty Underdogs (par exemple) fait de ce frenchy l'un des meilleurs artistes de 2009 !

Artiste

General Elektriks

General Elektriks is the brainchild of Hervé RV Salters. A French national and a keen vintage keyboard player, Salters was playing keys for his bands and for various artists in Paris (Femi Kuti, M, DJ Mehdi etc ) before he moved to San Francisco in 1999.

He sarted working on funk collages as he was moving to the US, using his favorite keyboards, a computer and a mic. GE became a musical journal that followed RV through his move to Seattle, then back to the Bay Area, in Berkeley, where he currently resides. There, he hooked up with the Quannum crew (Blackalicious, Lyrics Born, DJ Shadow ) and started sessioning for them. He invited Quannum s own Lateef The Truthspeaker and Chief Xcel on a few tracks, then completed the 1st GE album, Cliquety Kliqk. Hailed by URB as Ennio Morricone for the 21st century, the album is a far out mix of vintage funk, hip hop beats, noir riffs, cinematic arrangements, pop melodies and digital twinkle.

After touring behind the album, Salters joined Blackalicious in the studio to work on The Craft and toured with them for over a year. Concurrently, he formed San Francisco trio Honeycut with singer Bart Davenport and drummer/programmer Tony Sevener. Quannum Projects released their critically acclaimed 1st album, The Day I Turned To Glass, in 2006. As he was touring with Honeycut and laying keys down for more artists (Lifesavas, Curumin,, Jel, The Mighty Underdogs, etc ), Salters started working on a second GE effort. Good city for dreamers was completed in the fall of 2008. On 'Good City,' RV whips up his own take on psychedelia, one where future soul, oldschool pop, sampling, indie rock, hip hop and free jazz make sparkles as they collide. In doing so, the French expatriate joins the growing ranks of artists who are citizens of the world, nomads who create a sonic landscape that feeds as much on their origins as it does on their travels.

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Label

Discograph

Discograph est un label et distributeur français indépendant, originaire d'Île-de-France.
Ce label est connu pour avoir signé ou distribué des artistes tels que: AaRON, Hushpuppies, Cocoon, Kill The Young, la Team Nowhere, Stuck in the sound, Puppetmastaz, Coralie Clément, Brisa Roché, Demis Roussos, Bang Gang, General Elektriks, The Elderberries, ...

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Salle

La Maroquinerie

Créée en 1997, la Maroquinerie, salle de concerts de 500 places du XXème arrondissement, s'ancre dans le paysage musical parisien par sa programmation éclectique à dominante musiques actuelles et sa démarche de producteur (très différent du métier de loueur de salle) et d'initiateur de festivals pointus. La "Maroq" fait ce qu'il y a de mieux dans la scène live Parisienne, et le staff nous a toujours accueilli à bras ouverts... Un pur son, une pure lumière, une atmosphère chaleureuse et une sélection musicale au top. Respect.

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