JIM CASSADY & PABLO

Jim’s  groovy  deep tech house meets Pablo’s guitar flow a year ago on the road to festivals. Last summer, they fuse and give birth to a men-tal shamanic musical  ride, which is first staged at Petronelle de Papillon - colorful celebration born in the mind of Paul Armand Delille (from La SIRA, Paris). 

This is just a start for this visionary collaboration  which will take them from Paris (Le Baron to L’International, Le Social Club…) to Berlin (Madame Claude, Mein Haus Am See, Cookies, Sisyphos…). Then home to some wild & intense studio ses-sions at La SIRA.

EP PANATHENEE

Their ep —  Panathénée  — blooms from this mixture of senses, trips and enlightenment. It is an  homage  to the brightness and  madness of life. Its 4 tracks are energy sources, driving the listeners and dancers to another stage of musical pleasure. Jim & Pablo’s choice to stick to analogic sounds and life-scenes recordings is a tribute to the essence of rhythm which goes much beyond machines. A pure and vibrant reverence to real happiness and shared love. 

Humble musique. Dream with your ears wide open !

Founded in 2014, Humble musique is a newly born music label within the walls of la SIRA artist-factory located in the Paris outskirts. The label aims to capture the sound of the musicians that collaborate around this space with a wide range of styles and an ecclectic approach.

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EP TRACKS A1. SIRAMIK

This is the first track composed for this ep, with a very special  ceramic  guitar (made by Alexis Robineau) at La SIRA (Paris). It is a  concrete echo, inspired by the surrounding space of the studio and the feeling of certain berliner clubs. Although it starts in a certain dark or brutal way, Siramik actually opens the door to the rest of the ep through Pablo’s nostalgic and romantic  guitar solo. These harmonious notes (composed in 1 shot!) launch the tone, making cold concrete dance and giving matter a voice. A blue nostalgy in the shape of a polished stone.

A2. FIESTA FÜR FIREWORKS

This composition actually started in Berlin with NYE‘s recording of the city in feast & crazy fireworks in the streets. To this rather violent sound material were added warmer shamanic and sexual recordings in studio like this Indian girl friend, Joe’s jembe, the screams and of course Pablo’s guitar. Nature is also very present through the inspirations and sounds of water, fire, electri-city, air and insects. Fiesta Für Fireworks is a mo-vement towards the pleasures of mind & flesh. Its very different rythms merge and form this deep and beautiful shelter for a real fiesta. It somehow gathers and rises in a universal way. Which is also why its name is composed of Spanish, German and English...

B1. HIGH LAKE DANCE

High Lake Dance  carries on with this feminine presence both shamanic and sensual. It leads to a sort of fantastic cavern of endless love & dances, surrounded by drops IN the ground,  mystic  resonnances and lights. Its analogic hike and cli-max drags the listeners & dancers into a psychic movement in space: «Ailleurs». This whole track can be seen, felt and heard as the human echo of a high mountain lake. 

B2. PANATHENEE

This is exultation! This final track of the ep is an ode to pure sharing and true essence. It praises infancy & nature under the stars of a celebrating village where women and men dance around bond-fires. It is the peaceful and smiling awake-ning of souls andsenses. It cuts out devices & tricks to embrace Beauty and free Creation. What happens here is quite unspeakable. Even though Panathenee was the last track to be com-posed, its explosion makes it the central birth of the ep — which is also why it goes by this name. 

JIM CASSADY

Jim Cassady enters music as a piano player (classic and jazz). After a rock’n’roll wave as a guitarist, he gathers his multiple inspirations (Chostakovitch, Mozart, Thelonious Monk, John Coltrane, The Doors, Jimi Hendrix…) and opens his mind and ears to electronic music.

Artists such as Acid Pauli, Massive Attack, NU, Ricardo Villalobos and Stimming will convince him for sure of the electronic creative potential. These discoveries and his regular trips to Berlin drove him into finally com-posing his own tracks. In parallel, he keeps DJing his favorite ones in parisian spots such as Villette Enchantée, Panic Room, Dandy, Pompon, Ptit Club, Point G, Chez Moune, Maxim’s, Petit Bain…

As a music composer, he experiences a twist when he meets Pablo by adding a live electric guitar on his electronic voyage. Together they create their first live which they will perform in clubs and festivals around Europe. Jim is only 21 and yet quite promising if we look at his intense collaboration with Pablo as well as his asso-ciation with collectives such as Minimal Trip or BeatX Changers and of course the release of his first ep on Humble Record (Paul Armand Delille). 

Jim’s music link with dance is also really strong. He explores this sense of movement and touch to music gathering people and bringing them closer to pure happiness. His shamanic and indian inspirations made him conscious that music heals. Jim is not  looking for pleasing the public but to lift and enable the audience to see or feel things people might have trouble reaching in the everyday life. This is also why it is crucial for him to work with musicians like Pablo whose instru-ments and real touch connect in a poetic and sensitive way to today’s electric machines.

PABLO

Pablo  is a self-taught  guitarist  who has been  enchanted by the sick, healing and transcendant energy of rock’n’roll, jazz, funk and soul since many years. Between 14 and 19, he is part of two pop/ rock bands: The Andel and The Funky Dandy Corp. But soon rises the creative urge of going beyond the instrument to get into the textures of sound. He studies sound engineering and gets hooked to sound design. He records Nature and cities like Paris, Bombay or Glasgow. He is soon very torn apart between this technical / scientific approach of sound and the groovy / funky / jazzy power of music.

Pablo’s only musical landmark is improvisation. Giving an instrumental voice to  the present  moment and see what happens with his fingers!  His  experiences  with electronic music, Axone (Simon) and Jim Cassady opened the door to a whole  different  universe  which goes much beyond clubbing. It somehow shares the same transcendant side of rock’n’roll and space for crazy / deca dent solos. His  electronic  live act with Jim also offers a range of musical colors, special to each note — even if it is here reverbs, bass or claps. Their duo goes with technique but also pure instant creation and boiling live energy. Each performance is like a volcano erupting in a different and unique way on each stage, in front of each crowd.  

The dancing side of their music has become vital in order to exteriorize and feed themselves as musicians. The connection with the crowd and how to drive it from one move to the other is fascinating! Although, Pablo’s guitar touch is still romantic and he tries to make each person vibrate as much as he does on his guitar cords. It is about transmission. And electro is one thing but Ravel, The Beatles, Pink Floyd, Prince and of course Kandinsky are for sure core inspirations which made colors blow in a constant move-ment, the way Pablo loves it.

PANATHENEE EP  is really about sharing and exploring. Electronic music and sound design are the future for now but Jim & Pablo’s approach to it remains light enough to go further and not to take it for granted. They want and need their music to stay close to human vibrations and sen-sations which is why instruments, vocals and real-life sounds are so present in  this ep.  Their fascination for infinite tones, expression spaces and musical grooves enables them to penetrate music and create it in their own way, through a diversity of sounds and inspiring people fueling  their passion.

THE SPIRIT

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THANKS TO

Marie Polo,Alexis Robineau, Joe Blaster, Alexandre Tanqueray, James Down, Paul Armand-Delille, Étienne Blanchard, Pierre Brochart, Laura Berthier, Simon Gendrot,Mathieu Berthet.