Xavier Paradis: composition, synthesizers, samplers, vocals, arrangements.

For my money Xavier Paradis aka Arnaud Lazlaud aka Automelodi is one of the most talented and inspired synth music practitioners working today. He released a couple of mini-album cd-rs in 1999 and 2000 - Apéritif De Luxe and Olives Noires, from which this fantastic cut is taken - and in 2010 he joined the stellar line-up of Wierd records alongside Xeno & Oaklander, Martial Canterel, Led Er Est etc.

The Automelodi album is just monumental, and it evolved from these tracks a decade earlier. Sung mostly in French because of his Montreal origins, they achieve a kind of critical mass of beauty, with the utmost care taken over synth sounds, composition, arrangements and vocal layering.

He and Liz Wendelbo of Xeno & Oaklander have recently released a brilliant single, Rien à Paris, under the name Liz & László. Whichever project Xavier turns his hand to, almost nobody does it better.

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