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stage. I played without experimentations, com - Malléa, impacted the audi-
any interruption during 30 positions with the piano, ence and brought me to
minutes, in only one take after playing with bands as the light of the under-
with Mary and Paul Marshall bass player, guitar player ground scene very fast. I
in the room. It gave the and also synth-machines was booked all over Europe
first TONN Liveworks. It is player I have decided to and never stopped to play
for me the most beautiful work alone under the name live since then. I suddenly
piece of TONN Recordings & of: MADMOIZEL in 2007. The shared the stage with Anne
MADMOIZEL’s collaboration. electronic set-up was the Clark, Kas Product, Peine
key of playing on stage. Perdue …in Underground
Watch TONN Liveworks In terms of electronic ref- venues, Queer / Goth fes-
with MADMOIZEL HERE erences I loved more the tival, Fashion & Museums
british sound of New Order, opening in Berlin, Brussels,
Watch TONN Danceworks Bronski Beat, Art of Noise… Amsterdam, Madrid, Paris,
IV with MADMOIZEL HERE than the german ones L o n d o n , M a n c h e s t e r,
(even if I also listened to Belfast… It was crazy and it
Now let’s go way back and the classics). The germans galvanized me. Plus “Lady
I’d like to ask who are came later. Dandy” is an auto-produc-
you? Who is Madmoizel? tion, a kind of reward after
What led you to the elec- So MADMOIZEL is the result so many years of intense
tronic music crafts? Where of a contemporary synth work. But each of my albums
are you artistically emerg- sound mixed with lyri- is a personal process.
ing from?.....and if possi- cism and neo classical ref-
ble, where are you heading erences plus a theatrical Listen to “Lady Dandy” LP
to through your music? touch. I often say that I HERE
try to play the music of my
Luckily I was born in a own. Actually I don’t care What equipment and par-
family passionated by of being part of a specific aphernalia you put your
music and art in general. I scene and I think this is hands on when you perform
listened a lot of classical why I have been booked live?
and neo-classical music. I on so many different kind
also have been marked by of events. The most impor- I have bought my equip-
David Bowie more by its tant in life is to do want ment with the idea to be
theatrical representation we want. able to travel all over
than by its performances. Europe, to play on stage
At 6 years old I started to W hi c h o n e f r o m yo u r as often as possible. So
play the piano. Music had, albums is in that very it needed to be easy to
and still has, an emotional special place in your heart, carry and to package, and
depth to the point I crys- and why, please? to have a very basic tech-
tallized all my feelings nical rider to “seduce” the
on and built both my own “Lady Dandy” is probably bookers. So I bought the
freedom and also my soli- the key of what MADMOIZEL first series of Electribes.
tude. I was very young when became and still is. I first adapted my music
I knew that Music will be Associated to the sound to the machines and then
the companion of my life. of the album, the strong I adapted my machines
After decades of listening, visual, a portrait of Vincent to my music. I work with
