Fakear, or Théo, is no stranger to us. He's been a fixture on the French electronic music scene for over 10 years now, so we don't really need to introduce him. Identified, rather hastily, as a member of the family of "guys who make a fuss over a machine live", or as a regular on your "chill-relax-beats" playlists, it would seem that the artist has been put into a box that has become too narrow for him.
After 7 albums, Fakear has decided to give us a nice place to be on 4 September. With this album, he intends to take a place of choice among the French representatives of Bass Music, and make us see the silver thread in today's greyness.
Here, surrounded by his friends and confident, he unveils an album that is livelier, rawer, more intimate too, almost like a reconnection with others, both in its energy and in its need for connection.
The further we go, the more we realise that a nice place to be is a club album, with its peak times, its moments of joy, its infectious energy, and then sometimes (as in "sage & lavender" and "souvenir") we are taken by the hand for a trip to the land of downtempo, as Théo knows so well how to do.
