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Yelle (SOLD OUT!)
Presented by Prototype
Date: Fri Apr 22nd 2011
Venue: Mohawk (outside) 9:00pm
w/French Horn Rebellion
Poster_:
Yelle Weblinks :: Myspace. / Webpage.
Video_:
Video for "A CAUSE DE GARCONS" by Yelle off their 2006 release Pop Up (Astralwerks).
Audio_:
A Cause des Garçons by Yelle, from the album Pop-Up
Download The Infinite Music of French Horn Rebellion album sampler // CLICK HERE
Photos_:
Yelle by Nilina Mason-Campbell
French Horn Rebellion
Bio_:
"I wanna see you in a porn flick, getting busy with your potato or
French fried shaped dick, so your body will have no more secrets for
me…”
Back in the summer of 2005. It was with those spirited, explicit
lyrics, laid on a booty-shaking pop electro beat, that Yelle, a young
girl from Brittany (France), thought it was time to give Cuizinier,
member of the provocative Hip-Hop band TTC some change for his money.
The minute this humorous track got put on her MySpace page, people
rushed to hear it: 2000 plays after just two days, fan comments and
private concert requests came from all over the world including places
never heard of before, as well as crooked deals by major record labels
(for example Source, the record label that was with France’s electronic
French Touch wave from the outset) who had spotted the bad girl in this
eye-catching chick.
Yelle grew up with music, her dad being a famous musician in the Côtes
d’Armor region, where she still lives today. She played the piano, then
went on to acting, and played in a few bands that never made it past
the rehearsals, but whatever: she knew she was a born performer.
Five years ago, she met GrandMarnier at a marshmallow party. This young
musician and producer, was going back and forth between his own band
and his student room where he was making beats on his computer.
Although his teens were all about Rock music, he was drawn to
electronic music after listening to the Beastie Boys and started
mucking around with his machines. Yelle started singing on
GrandMarnier’s demos just for a laugh at first, but the combination of
the boy’s electronic loops and the girl’s half-sung half-rapped voice
worked so well that they naturally ended up producing an electro pop
album all in French if you please. Yelle’s golden voice was in the
house!