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Fránçois and The Atlas Mountains

Plus Barbarossa

0	MANCHESTER: Hey! Manchester @ The Roadhouse
P	Sunday 30th March, 2014
N	7:30pm

Event information

Meet François Marry - a multi-talented songwriter, musician, animator and artist, hailing from Saintes, a small town on the west coast of France who goes under the name of Fránçois and The Atlas Mountains.

Frànçois moved to Bristol from France in September 2003. Over the past few years, François has recorded a couple of albums and EPs, released through Too Pure and Fence Records, and has performed around the globe with Camera Obscura, Electrelane, Anna Calvi andKing Creosote & Jon Hopkins.

Originally an open collective, Fránçois and The Atlas Mountains has become over the years, a four-piece band and have recently signed to Domino Records. Matching French lyrics to African rhythms, the band's distinctive songwriting is whimsically surreal with a real joyous side, sheer, un-repressed fun.

E Volo Love (released on Domino) is a beautiful collection of Gallic chamber-pop and chanson with rich piano chords, shimmering electric guitars and an all-female polyphonic vocal group creating a colourful sound.

'A tour de force of French pop eccentricity' - The Word

'Be sure to find time to let E Volo Love in; it is tray bon' - The Skinny

Tour support comes from Barbarossa. James Mathé, sometime associate of the Fence Collective, Jose Gonzalez and Johnny Flynn, trades in soul inflected electronics. With a kitbag full of huge, emotive songs that aim straight at the heart, big things are expected in 2014.