At The Party

Description

THE NEW MUSICAL PROJECT BY RENAUD LETANG, IN THE COMPANY OF PHILIPPE KATERINE - FEIST - CONNAN MOCKASIN - BENNY SINGS - CHILLY GONZALES - JAMIE LIDELL - SAUL WILLIAMS - VLADIMIR COSMA - INFINITE BISOUS - JERRY PAPER - CHUUWEE - MEL D. PRODUCED BY RENAUD LETANG & CHILLY GONZALES - RECORDED AT STUDIOS FERBER
It is the album of a lifetime. Or rather, of half a lifetime spent, since the age of eighteen, in the shadow of recording studios. Under the pseudonym with multiple resonances DRIFT, AT THE PARTY is an album signed by one of the most renowned and sought-after French sound engineers and producers in the world for three decades: Renaud Letang. ManuChao, Chilly Gonzales, Feist, Mathieu Booagerts, Lianne La Havas, Philippe Katerine, Saul Williams, Jane Birkin, Seu Jorge, Micky Green, Connan Mockasin, and even Amadou & Mariam have regularly called on him, to the point that they sometimes could no longer do without this producer with golden hands and rare hearing.
For years, Renaud Letang, awarded at the Victoires de la Musique and nominated for the Grammy Awards, has been secretly preparing, in his lair in the basement of Studios Ferber, an album project with all his artist friends. His Canadian accomplice Chilly Gonzales, with whom he formed the successful producer duo VV in the 2000s, encouraged him to release his songs, which he composes in the dark between two recording or mixing sessions.
Renaud Letang approaches his compositions as “drift music,” with a broad stylistic palette – from sunny disco pop (At the Party, Working on Me) to naïve jazz (Papaya, A Night in Waimea), from futuristic hip hop (Cosmic Drift, That’s All) to dreamlike passages (Très Gentiment In Waimea).
The word DRIFT, the alias with multiple meanings chosen by Renaud Letang, precisely tells of this perpetual movement that wonderfully overflows in this collective record, open to all vocal pairings: Feist, Chilly Gonzales, Connan Mockasin, Benny Sings, Philippe Katerine, Jamie Lidell, Saul Williams, Infinite Bisous, Jerry Paper, Chuuwee, Mel D and Vladimir Cosma thus appear in the credits of At the Party. “In the end, I realized the record I had in mind, with a level of exactingness for the official groove and sensitivity.” Breathing Californian music and collective energy for a fantasized musical, AT THE PARTY is a fascinating musical journey, to be listened to as much in the sunny day as at nightfall. The soundtrack of summer with the cast of the year.