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Artist Biography For Vista Le Vie

Their Music Arouses Curiosity As Well As Their Name A Cut ´n´paste Of Words Oddly Juxtaposed.
Their Name A Band?s Name Yet. You Already Form A Band Even When There Is Only Two People In It. The Masquerade Is Over Let?s Start Introductions Vista Le Vie Is
Max From Dijon East Of France And Gilles From Avignon South . They Met In Paris Bless Capital City Centralisation! . Max Started At The Early Age Of Six Learning Classic Percussions At The Local Music School Dabbled With Rock ´n´ Roll Got A Crush For Jacques Loussier´s Record Pulsion Drums & Piano Album Of A Famous Jazz Pianist Overfed With Coltrane´s Jazz And Then Got Fond Of Reggae Chased 70s Soul Nuggets And Eventually In The Back Of His Pals Feverishly Attended Laurent Garnier´s DJ Sets ?who Had A Residency At L´An-Fer The Local Techno Mecca In The Early 90s. He Then Moved To The Big City Paris. Menial Jobs.
Gilles Got His Musical Education Learning Classical Piano At The Local Music School Too. He Listened As Well To Miles Davis Coltrane´s And Above All Thelonious Monk´s Music Which In The End Turned Out To Be Confusing For Someone Who Was Brought Up In A Cartesian Environment. He Then Fell On U.R.´ S Sound The Detroit Techno Gurus . U Stands For Underground There´s More Than A Mere Aesthetics Option Here. Moved Then To The Big City As Well. And Found A Job At The Now-Defunct Passage Du Nord A Local Music Theatre Where He Could Meet Trilok Gurtu Percussionist Zawinful Founder & Member Of The Jazz Band Weather Reports And John Zorn NY Saxophonist . Eventually They Met At Radio Nova Where Max Works As A Radio Programmer Is Still Actually And Gilles Directs Broadcast Programs Only For A While... . They Could Meet DJ Gilb.R And Laurent Garnier. Quite Good Mentors For Wide-Open Ears. Finally Vista Le Vie Was Born. Large Nocturnal Of Course ? Sessions Of Manipulation On Machines & Instruments With The Deeply-Rooted Will To Build Images Out Of Sounds. Max Deals With Rhythmic Structures Gilles Deals With Melodies. Well That´s The Way It Should Ideally Be. Actually They Always Shape Their Musical Universe Together A Musical Universe Based Upon Loops And Post-Produced Sounds. In The End It Is Therefore Impossible To Identify But A Sample. The Guys At F Com Namely Eric Morand And Laurent Garnier Got Hooked Into It From Day One. Hence They Decided To Release Vista Le Vie´s First Mini-Album Don´t As A Limited Edition CD Almost Without Any Publicity. However It Was Singular Enough To Arouse Curiosity. It Was Followed Shortly After By The Release Of "Slip It Under" In The Spring Of 2004.At Last Their First Full-Length Debut Album Is Released So Sit Down Relax And Watch A « Futuristic Family Film » Outstandingly Chic 11 Audio Shortcuts Which Will Bring Images To Your Imagination.

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