We got the Tarzan and Jane of offbeat, just swung in on the vine this morning mate!
Among various music projects and monikers such as Miqi O.,Hiccup, Bawns Bawns, Rebond, Projet O. Art Ensemble (Stefan Ferry – Laure O. – Nataly Szylman – Miqi O.), Electrons Libres (Zo aka La Chauve-souris & Miqi O.), La Boocle (yes, we’re gonna name them all), and all his collaborative projects LTDLL (Le Trou de La Lune – very rich show radio by the way), Honeyboxxx, Le Retour du Boogie, Boogieboxxx Dj’s…
Today, Tarzan is releasing his second project on Cosmonostro, called My Kinda Lady. 5 tracks, and the style is in the straight continuity of his first EP L’homme singe : a bumpy and original beat deconstruction, applied to the unlimited resource of sounds a « man in the wild » thematic can allow. The result is a pure and melodic primal vibe, somehow refreshing as so many offbeat / wonky projects we’re used to hear these days are stuck somewhere far in space*.
Here are some words from Cosmonostro to describe this « album de la jungle »
« Tarzan is the new music effort of french producer Miqi O.
As a human child lost in the jungle and raised by gibbons, Tarzan jump gracefuly from african percussions to blues samples, climbing on every branch of roots and tribal music : amerindian song, jungle noises, ethnic instrument, animal scream… all blended in a modern abstract-offbeat-hip-hop way, in the middle of disturbed synthetizer and heavy wonky beats.
Layer one upon the other, like different stage of a subtropical forest, his music is full of surprise, evolving all the time, and it’s hard to know which animal you’re going to cross on this trip, and if it’s going to be a friendly meeting.
His powerful voices lead the progression, like Tarzan’s yell lead the jungle, and his wild song build the story of a naturalist expedition, making us discovering these unknown landscape.
On stage like in a tree, Tarzan is the king of the jungle. Playing acrobatic live beats, his simian moves on pad controlers bring him to a tribal and infectious dance, challenging tigers, lights and snakes to awake our forgotten animal knowledge. »
* We still love sounds from space though.