French 79 Shares Vibrant Video “By Your Side” w/ BlackBook + LP Out 11/8

French 79Shares Vibrant Video “By Your Side” w/ BlackBook

New Album Joshua Out Nov 8

Tour Dates.

Nov 3: Paris, FR @ Zenith (DJ set)Nov 29: Clermont-Ferrand, FR @ La Cooperative De MaiDec 12: Bordeaux, FR @ IBOATDec 18: Berlin, DE @ Burg SchnabelDec 19: Toulouse, FR @ Le BikiniDec 20: Marseille, FR @ Espace JulienJan 15-18: Groningen, NL @ EurosonicJan 22: London, UK @ ColoursFeb 6: Paris, FR @ La Cigale

Marseille-based electro pop artist French 79, aka Simon Henner, just released a vibrant 80s-inspired video for “By Your Side” (ft. Sarah Rebecca), premiered on Blackbook. Filled with nostalgia and shimmering synths, Simon explains “the video sticks to the story of the album, the notion of trajectory in a life: where we come from and where we go despite hardships.” It follows previous video for “Hold On,” a nod to Simon’s childhood in the skateboarding world, and “Hometown” (premiered on Billboard with 500,000 YouTube views), calling to mind the worlds of Stranger Things and Close Encounters of the Third Kind. These tracks come from the French artist’s newly announced album Joshua, out November 8 on Alter K.

Listen / Share: “By Your Side”

In 2014, electro-argonaut French 79 landed on a French scene that quickly became international. After releasing a synthetic and contemplative first EP Angel and full-length Olympic, Simon is now ready to share his newest album Joshua this fall.

Instead of moving forward in time, he is going back. “I use a musical palette that plunges me back into my teenage films: the synth sounds of Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Jacques Cousteau’s fascinating documentaries on the marine world, the melodies of François De Roubaix, the moods of films like Blade Runner,” Simon says.

Inspired by the cinematic sounds of Tangerine Dream, Kraftwerk and Soft Machine, Simon remembers recording soundtracks from TV movies so that he could listen to them later. Each song on this new album evokes a lived-in moment, relationship or experience during Simon’s childhood. Also featured on some of the tracks is Paris-based singer Sarah Rebecca from Ocean Springs, Mississippi. Whether it was boating, walking around his city or climbing the Alpine mountains, Simon drew together all of his influences to what he calls “the power of music, the ability it has to make you enter a completely different world of reality.”

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