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Rocky – Soft Machines
-Label G.U.M. and The Stimuleye present
Rocky’s first album “Soft Machines”,
out October 21, 2016.Photography by René Habermacher.
Art Direction by Antoine Asseraf.ROCKY SOFT MACHINES Cover Atwork by René Habermacher.
ROCKY SOFT MACHINES Artwork by René Habermacher.
ROCKY SOFT MACHINES Artwork by René Habermacher.
ROCKY SOFT MACHINES Artwork by René Habermacher.
ROCKY SOFT MACHINES Artwork by René Habermacher.
styling: Rogelio Burgos
make-up: Min Kim @ Airport
nails: Hiro @ Jed Root
hair: Chiao Chenet @ Airport
retouching: Dimitri Rigas
production: The StimuleyePre-order CD & VINYL of “Soft Machines” from Fnac here.
Watch Rocky’s “Chase the cool” music video by The Stimuleye from their first EP here.00 -
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-The Stimuleye presents Chase The Cool, the first music video from the first of EP of Rocky.
CHASE THE COOL, written & directed by Antoine Asseraf & Rene Habermacher.
Your EP is very diverse sonically – is it because you’re still experimenting, or because you refuse to choose one style ?
Let’s say you can find in Rocky the influences we wanted to play with: House, Pop, R&B. All these musics are not so different, they all have their roots in African American music.Lille, Paris,… is it important where you’re from?
No. Today you can make the same music whether you’re from Lille, Paris or Madrid. Even though it’s true there isn’t the same energy in a big city like New York as in… Paris.Singing in French…is it taboo for you ?
Not at all. We’re thinking about it for the next EP.What’s it like playing the Olympia concert hall Jouer à l’Olympia? Inès, you mentionned you had already sung there before the Inrocks Festival…
You can say what you want, the Olympia isn’t a venue like any other. We were lucky enough to play it twice (the first time opening for The Shoes) and it was a great experience each time. The mood is peculiar, and you always get a reaction when you tell your family you’ll play there.What’s your process, from writing to production ?
There are no rules. But generally we start from a base by one of us, we push the production further and Inès tries to lay down some vocals. We go back and forth like this a few times, until we like it enough to play it to Pierre Le Ny, the Art Director of the label, who’ll put it in the trash.Sometimes, when he thinks the track is cool, he’ll send it Guillaume Brière (half of the The Shoes), who finalizes it and puts it on a record.
At least that’s how we do it now. It’s simple to tell, but in fact each step comes with its share of tears and despair.Where did the name Rocky come from?
We wanted a name that was cool, easy to remember, that would work in any language. This one was already part of the collective imagination, so the work was already done, which made it easy. We also liked the idea of highjacking an already ultra famous name from its origins. It never fails to trigger people to ask us about the name.What is the last thing which stimulated you ?
TRUE DETECTIVE !Rocky, by The Stimuleye.
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