WAX TAILOR - A FRENCH MASTERPIECE |
Friday, 21 October 2005 |
The French artist, Wax Tailor delivers his awaited magnificent first album "Tales of the Forgotten Melodies", a 52 minutes tour in the depth of his cinematic hip hop. 18 tracks that will for sure raise memories. Wax Tailor uses
samples in his music, the same way film directors use actors. His record is conceived as an orchestral movie, between hip-hop and down-tempo, where WT hijacks the forgotten melodies and tells a story of his own, where each track is a sequence. In this large patchwork of numerous influences and multiple references to the seventh art, major names of the twentieth century music (Doris Day, Nina Simone...) could get a chance to meet Stanly Kubrick, Woody Allen or Alfred Hitchcock. And as for today’s artists, the US Hip-Hop band of The Others appears on the record to offer a tribute to the hip-hop culture in which WT has been involved for 20 years. We also get a chance to rediscover Charlotte Savary, from the French Band Clover. Already there on the EP - Lost the way, she is the singer on the title "Our Dance". Finally, Marina Quaisse's violoncello, runs through the whole album and delicately colors it with darker shades of melancholy which intensify the overall coherence of the project. In France, Wax Tailor is well known since the 90's for his activism in the bosom of La Formule Band, as a rapper, a composer, a producer and a manager. But now, with this new album, there’s no doubt, WT is going to become famous worldwide. by Yvan Rodic
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