Chien MĂ©chant is a new French duo from Paris. Present for a few months on social networks, they open the game with a series of "live" mini-tracks filmed in their studio, entitled #DansLaNiche.
The duo of professional musicians, friends since high-school, exude a unique energy in their performances, on electronic productions that explosively mix the codes of electro, jazz and psyche rock. The palette is wide, reminiscent of Justice, Todd Terje, Snarky Puppy or Pink Floyd, all on texts in French and English, spoken, sung, vocoded, pitched. They deliver rich compositions, often dancing, sometimes soaring, in a format of live keyboards / ultra-energetic drums.
In September 2020 we see them alongside David Walters with their remix of his title Manyé released on Heavenly Sweetness. At the same time they fall under the radar of Nowadays Records ...