He made the track that broke him when he was fifteen years old, in a bedroom in Rouen, and it went around the world before he was old enough to get into most of the venues that were playing it. That fact sits underneath the whole project — this is music made by someone who learned to build rooms before he was allowed inside them.
Mehdi Benjelloun writes melodic electronic music with actual songs in it, which puts him at odds with a scene organized around drops. The live show leans on that: guitar, live vocals, arrangements that breathe rather than build-release-build. Forester open, and the pairing is deliberate — both acts make music for the drive home rather than the peak of the night.
The Hollywood room is a 1927 theatre with a balcony, which is a strange and good place to see this. The ceiling matters.
Doors at ten on Saturday the seventeenth; the theatre on Vine runs until two.
He made the track that broke him when he was fifteen years old, in a bedroom in Rouen, and it went around the world before he was old enough to get into most of the venues that were playing it. That fact sits underneath the whole project — this is music made by someone who learned to build rooms before he was allowed inside them.
Mehdi Benjelloun writes melodic electronic music with actual songs in it, which puts him at odds with a scene organized around drops. The live show leans on that: guitar, live vocals, arrangements that breathe rather than build-release-build. Forester open, and the pairing is deliberate — both acts make music for the drive home rather than the peak of the night.
The Hollywood room is a 1927 theatre with a balcony, which is a strange and good place to see this. The ceiling matters.
Doors at ten on Saturday the seventeenth; the theatre on Vine runs until two.
He made the track that broke him when he was fifteen years old, in a bedroom in Rouen, and it went around the world before he was old enough to get into most of the venues that were playing it. That fact sits underneath the whole project — this is music made by someone who learned to build rooms before he was allowed inside them.
Mehdi Benjelloun writes melodic electronic music with actual songs in it, which puts him at odds with a scene organized around drops. The live show leans on that: guitar, live vocals, arrangements that breathe rather than build-release-build. Forester open, and the pairing is deliberate — both acts make music for the drive home rather than the peak of the night.
The Hollywood room is a 1927 theatre with a balcony, which is a strange and good place to see this. The ceiling matters.
Doors at ten on Saturday the seventeenth; the theatre on Vine runs until two.