>> Alif Tree
bio: As a musician (guitar, voice, keyboards, percussion...), Alif is a fervent defender of acoustic sounds, from philharmonic music to pop via jazz and world music. A sound-engineer and producer skilled in digital techniques, he has been navigating through the universe of recording-studios, sound-stages and television, as much as record-labels, for the past fifteen years. The voyager, who tele-transported himself to Normandy a few years ago, has now finally found the right compromise between urbanity and wide, open spaces, installing his own studio in Marseille at the end of 1999: “Here life is more cool, people aren’t as blasé as they are in Paris. There’s a genuine laboratory here where you can use your imagination and concoct all kinds of mixtures, even the most improbable.”
In February 2000 he signed with M10 for “The Observatory”, a first album that scrutinized, in the distance, the possible future of electronic music. In the press, critics welcomed this clairvoyant point of view with interest. “Between pop melancholy, West Coast groove and ethnic reflections, the first album from Alif Tree inscribes itself in the composite logic of tomorrow’s downbeat: pop fragrances, science-fiction nuggets, jazz, exotic savours, this first Alif Tree album does without glutamate”, wrote Yann Quélennec in the columns of “Coda”.
Having crossed over into the third millennium, Alif signed with Universal Music Jazz and has come out with “Spaced”, an opus that points, like E.T.’s finger, to visions perceived from his observatory. Sailing the seven seas of space in zero gravity, between trip-hop under classical influence, instrumental hip-hop and jazzy electronica, these ten tracks go head-to-head against the current trends, which would have all down-tempo electro composers produce soundtracks for imaginary movies.
And then Al!f, for almost three years, explored and went on, meeting musicians and artists, stages and studios, collected sounds and atmospheres, scenes and moods to bring , “French Cuisine”, the third album.
All those moments and a thousand more are the essential roots of “French Cuisine”, the forthcoming album licensed by Compost.
Soon, the website of our DJ and cook will propose you free recipes and menus tuned with musical proposals for a unique time.
Quotes: Nu Jazz where Nu Jazz should have gone, before people started calling it Nu Jazz - and got sick of it. Way to go! Inspiring stuff! Koop should watch out for this Frenchman! Trickski
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