The Molodoï is hosting an evening of ambient electro on Thursday, November 24, with Ouai Stéphane in particular, but it will also be an opportunity to celebrate the release of the first album by Flupke, a Strasbourg musician with a tangy and regressive universe.
After appearing like a UFO on the Strasbourg music scene five years ago, Flupke is finally “coming out” on Thursday November 24 at the Molodoï. He presents his first EP (extended play, half an album) there during a release party, proof that this original artist can also do like everyone else.
Because to discover the universe of Flupke, between hallucinated pop and retarded adolescence, one could wonder. Jérémie Revel took the nickname Flupke in reference to the second series of Hergé, featuring two kids used to blunders and to free themselves from limits. Guitarist of the very famous funk / soul group Fat Badgers, Jérémie has been incubating Flupke’s electro for more than ten years.
His Bandcamp page, however, only offers half a dozen tracks, but all of them show unbridled creativity and a positive inventiveness that tickle the neurons in this gloomy period.
Asked about his universe, Jérémie Revel evacuates by answering that as a musician, he “tests a lot of things” and that the objective is to manage to offer “ambient music with pretty and funny sounds”. Right in the target. As for the presence of his hallucinated head in his clips and on the cover of a good part of his songs, Jérémie explains it with a snub at a time he considers “individualistic and egocentric”.
Individualist, perhaps, in any case Jérémie Revel can survive in this world since in addition to the compositions and the interpretation of Flupke’s titles, it is also he who directs the clips and even the video game that accompanies Je ne pas possible !
The evening at the Molodoï will also celebrate the new album by Difracto, a more classic electronic music producer but still very high. Another artist present Thursday evening, the unclassifiable Ouai Stéphane who willingly goes beyond the limits as well, but with less attention to aesthetics and melody than Flupke.