NEW MUSIC: ALMAMY
New music from electro/electronic artist Almamy and odd, odd vocals. If you like Lykke Li, you might like this – except that Almamy’s a bloke, which I didn’t realise at first.
Almamy was born in 1982 in Dakar, Senegal. He started out as a dancer and an actor until he won a scholarship to study and dance in Paris in the late nineties. After relocating to New York in 2002, to study at the Broadway Dance Center, Almamy found himself immersed in the club scene and writing songs. “Ballet couldn’t contain me anymore,” he recalls. Almamy eventually teamed up with guitarist and programmer Nick Holmes producing, by layering his androgynous squeal of a voice and insistent melodies over skeletal instrumentations, a sound of his own. A bit of a curate’s egg.
Below you’ll find his new single “French Kiss” from the double A side “Don’t Ask Me/French Kiss”. This features Almamy’s curious vocals prominently alongside an insistent guitar (a bit too Lenny Kravitz for me) and some fashionably scuzzy but tasteful beats. All a bit blog-electro-lite and rather dull.
I wasn’t going to do a posting at all. But then I heard “Like You Do (En Masse ‘Like We Do’ Remix) from the “Like You Do Remixes” EP which is waaay more like it. It has very now sounding digital beats, showing the Daft Punk/Justice influence. But if you’ve liked any of those artists work you should like this. Almamy’s vocals get a bit of vocoder action which make them work better with the music and some well crafted beats from Italy’s En Masse sets the track up proper. En Masse restrain themselves from their normal bangin’ style and it’s the better for it.
Almamy – Like You Do (En Masse ‘Like We Do’ Remix)
Almamy – French Kiss
Almamy website, where you can listen to the rest of the Like You Do Remixes EP
Almamy MySpace
En Masse MySpace
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