NEWS:

The new Album Etmo meets Osk entitled "Silver Liquid" has been realeased on Fotone records :)

Etmo meets Osk "Silver Liquid"

You can check an interview by fotone:

Interview

Three music videos by Osk:

The Conversation

The Riblubla Reunion

Aurore

This is the first recording of a serie of live recordings I’ve done in London in Stoke Newington with 4 differents musicians I really enjoy playing with :

Osk (Oskar Vizan / Plateaux), Franck Alba (Piano Magic), Mauro Cassavetz (Porcelain Raft, Sunny Days Sets Fire) and Jerome Tcherneyan (Piano Magic, Riskymusic, Echoccult).

In the same time, I am at the moment based in Taipei City, Taiwan.

Aswell good news, you can also get my first album ETMO (CD/DVD-From Ka’lei) on Fotone records very soon, check Fotone website.

INTRODUCTION:

I am a soprano / tenor saxophonist and composer from France, I was based in London for more than 10 years. I ‘ve moved to Taipei City (Taiwan).
I started to get into electronic sounds some years ago. I first started playing live with various DJs. I enjoy working in an electronica field. I am writing tracks exploring eclectic beats and a wide array of sounds and influences from around the globe. I like to include in my tunes snippets from field recordings and recycled voices of friends and family. I used to call this musical exploration ‘From Ka’lei’ (ka’lei, Greek root of the word Kaleidoscope) to summarise the approach I have with live electronic performances in general and as well as with studio compositions.
I ‘ve been playing my compositions live with a changing line-up of collaborators including Mauro Cassavetz: Electronics + FX, keyboard, vocal, melodica and/or Oskar Vizan on laptop and FX, (previously I've been playing with Sio B'baas). I perform live playing soprano, tenor saxes, clarinet, ethnic flutes, percussion, kaos pad.

In May 2004 I have released and produced my first album ETMO on From Ka’lei records. It will be now distributed on line by Fotone records. It includes a DVD which is an interactive creation with 7 visual artists. At the same time, I’ve also featured on various electronic releases and collaborated with several musicians and bands in London (Franck Alba, Echoccult, Architeq, Eyelead, Pulsar, Cassavetz…). My second album In the Desert came out in April 2010.

BACKGROUND :

I studied at first classical music at age 10, playing clarinet but then discovered jazz and started to play saxophones within an acoustic context, taking part in many bands in south of France in Marseilles (big band, quartet, and trio…). I have studied Jazz at the Conservatoire National de Region de Marseilles (France). I have been composing for and performing with the saxophone quartet Sequoia Blows, in collaboration with French-cameroonese saxophonist Jean-Jacques Elangué.
After I settled in London for years. I started to produce my own electronic music and built up my live band. Moving through various electronic atmospheres and acoustic ambiences, my work can be described as musical hybrid, including eclectic grooves, sound textures, spoken words and vocals. When playing Saxes, my aim is to explore a narrative way of improvising, with a free spirited attitude.

Live Performances

-Café 1001 London April 2010
-The Union Chapel, London, April and May 2009
-The Spitz / London with Polar Bear + Quack Quack July 2007
-Art Scene Warehouse, Shanghai, China, June 2007
-The Boileroom (Support of Daedelus / Ninja Tune) February 2007
-Purcell Room – Royal Festival Hall London December 2005
-The Synergy Project Festival at Se One CLUB London March 2006 and November 2005
-London Jazz Festival Nov 2004 and Nov 2005 at The Spitz / London
-Exhibition Road Music Day – Fête de la Musique (Goethe Institut / London) June 2005
-Hippodrome, Marseilles France June 2004
-The halle_02 (Heidelberg) and Weimar, Germany December 2002
-The Nice Jazz -Festival 1999

Tours

-Sunkissed Live tour (BBC radio1) in Oslo, Norway (with Niels Petter Molvaer, Frost & Bugge Wesseltoft) Jan 2004
-Arts Council of England tour in London (The Spitz & Notting Hill Arts Club) and Brighton (the Sussex Arts Club) including a film preview of the entire DVD album and a live performance with DJ Sio B’baas featuring Cassavetz May 2004

Releases

-Etmo meets Osk "Silver Liquid" released in July 2011on Fotone records.
-Etmo "In The Desert" released in April 2010 (FK).
- Etmo CD / DVD (FK) album in May 2004 including videos done by 7 European visuals artists: Rupert Noble, Stephane Malenfant, Sarina Gascon, Pascal Grimaud, Philou Bouriat, Julie-Anne Barbe and Gianluca Liquori.
-Featured on Access 58 Records – Mutant Soul Records releases and Intec Records 2001-2003
-Saxophone quartet "Sequoia Blows" CD released in 1999, Co-produced with French-cameroonese saxophonist Jean-Jacques Elangué. This CD featured 7 compositions by Etmo.

Radio
-Etmo’s new album In the Desert played on BBC radio 2 Late Junction July 2010.
-Etmo’s album played on XFM radio (Flo-motion with Nick Luscombe) Oct 2004 and BBC Radio 3 (Late Junction with Fiona Talkington)
-Etmo broadcasted a live performance on Resonance as part of The Spitz’s radio show in Feb 2004
-Broadcasted an extract from Sunkissed Live in Oslo on BBC Radio1 (One World) with Paul Thomas 2004

2001-2006
Gigs in London at Ocean, Hackney Empire Cafe, The Vibe Bar, Project 142, The Ritzy, 291 Gallery, the Notting Hill Arts Club 2002-2004 (performed several time at One World Live BBC Radio1 Night including support of Nitin Sawhney, Dj Yoda..), the Spitz, 491 Gallery, and The National Theatre (Summer festival - Watch this Space 2003).

1997-1999
At this time Etmo took part in various live performances with DJ Oïl and DJ Rebel from Radio Grenouille (Marseilles/France). He also played the Vienna Jazz Festival (1997) and at the Apt Jazz Festival (1998).

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