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#1 General Electrics is a free electron
Behind this name hides RV (Hervé Salters), above all keyboard player, specialist of instruments from the 60’s and 70’s: Clavinetz, Hammond, Rhodes. RV marked his style within the Vercoquin band, accompanying M and, on the occasion of numerous invitations, in Shoki Shoki by Femi Kuti, in DJ Mehdi’s Spy Story, or, more recently, within the Qannum Collective. He is to be found on the forthcoming Blackalicious album, contributes his keyboarding skills to Lateef The Truth Speaker‘sand Chief Xcel’s project „Maroons” and their first album “Ambush”. And he reaches the orbit with Honeycut, a San Francisco-based trio that encompasses ‘soul-hop’ and various other styles and is gonna come up with an album on Quannum early spring 2005!
#2 General Electrics is boundless
Based in San Francisco, the French-British RV is a nomad. His album has been conceived in Paris, San Francisco and Seattle cellars and has been finalized in Berkeley, his present residence town.
#3 General Electrics is unclassifiable
General Electricsbelongs to those bands, which cannot be classified in a specific style. RV draws with the same urgency from the pop music, the hip-hop, the electronic music, the soul and jazz. In this respect, Juju by Wayne Shorter fascinates him as much as Billy Jean by Michael Jackson, these influences extending from David Bowie to Stevie Wonder. With a very modest data processing equipment, RV mixes retro with electro, destroys and rebuilds, strokes then ill-treats sounds. Alternating instrumental with vocal tunes, RV achieves radical collages with Hip Hop, electronic and soul/funk music. “Cliquety Kliqk” is the outcome of this permanent mixture between “vintage” keyboard and electronic treatment. The result is a “modern” sound carrying with it the respect for the masters... which also is a visual experience, “Facing That Void” comes along with a fabulous video in tow!
"Facing That Void" is Arno Salter`s first-born when it comes to music videos and also involves the skills of T-Reid Norton (Tim Burton`s "Nightmare Before Christmas"!) and Kamela Portuges ("Being John Malkovich"!).
#4 General Electrics is sociable
General Electrics welcomes in three titles Lateef The Truth Speaker’s rhymes, the virtuoso MC from the Quannum stage (Blackalicious, DJ Shadow, Maroons). |
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