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Artist:	SOMETHINGALAMODE
Title:	SomethingALaMode
Label:	YELLOW PRODUCTIONS (FRANCE)
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.50
Catalog #:	YP 255CD

Paris' Thomas Roussel and Yannick Grandjean are SomethingALaMode, two classical musicians nurtured in club culture -- musicians just as thrilled by post-Romantics such as Chostakovitch, Stravinsky and Fauré, as by Daft Punk's Homework or Mirwais' Disco Science. Musicians eager to have their album mixed by Arnaud Rebotini, the dark prince of the dark touch, to be released on Yellow, the historic electronic music label with a French touch. SALM was born in 2006, after the two friends had spent years nurturing the project in their minds. One night, Thomas, the violinist, recognized for his collaborations in contemporary art, and Yannick, the cellist, first-prize laureate of the National School of Music, met again -- around an old PC -- caught up again in the sacred fire of "dance" music. Whether it be electronic or pop, they had a desire to melt all their passions into one, to create emotion through a fragile string or the pure sound of a synthesizer without wondering where they belong -- or if the dictates of art permit it. The outcome? The first "string-electro" album dexterously mixing the clanging violins of "Rondo Parisiano," as baroque as they come (featuring Karl Lagerfeld), the lofty soul of "Little Bit Of Feel Good" (featuring Adam Joseph) and the heady bubbles of "5 AM" (with young West Coast rap singer K.Flay). Twelve masterclass titles uniting a very '70s "Easy Loving" (Francis Lai-style, enough to make Dimitri From Paris jealous) with the pent-up wrath of "Dies Irae" -- a war-like march of unimaginable beauty, a hybrid both deeply melodious and radically electronic, a daring fusion of universes which have long been on a quest for each other and which, thanks to SALM, finally prove to be a match made in heaven.

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