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L'Eclair x ODESSOS

L’Eclair, the electrifying and genre-hopping Swiss ensemble formed and led by Bulgarian brothers Stef and Yavor Lilov, has announced their new album, CLOUD DRIFTER, out June 20. Meticulously crafted over the last four years, CLOUD DRIFTERr marks a departure from L’Eclair’s signature instrumental music, featuring vocals from a wide slate of frequent collaborators – including Pink Siifu, Girl Named GOLDEN, Gelli Haha, INES and more. 

Alongside the announcement, L’Eclair has shared “ODESSOS,” a driving and atmospheric club-ready album highlight that features vocals from Phoebe Coco and A Ghost Column. The song transmits the infectious energy of the band’s live shows, and is a perfect introduction to the dynamic, high energy collaborative spirit at the heart of CLOUD DRIFTER. Having toured with the likes of The Cinematic Orchestra and WITCH–including writing and recording for the latter’s 2023 and forthcoming 2025 albums–and produced for wide-ranging artists including Varnish La Piscine and Allah-Las member Maston, the Lilov brothers have assembled a vast network of likeminded musicians. Across CLOUD DRIFTER, they keenly curate a cohesive vision incorporating many disparate contributions.

L’Eclair has built an international fanbase thanks to its impressive command of rhythm, dynamics and electro/acoustic alchemy, which has nodded equally to vocal-free titans such as Can and Tortoise, expansive, spacey and blissed-out jams (2021’s Confusions) and more stripped-down, feel-good and genre-jumping destinations (the 2018 debut Polymood). Two live sessions for KEXP have accumulated nearly 900,000 views combined, beaming L’Eclair onto the playlists of adventurous listeners around the world. 

Check more info up on Spin.

 

Maston x Live From Ritmo Studios

Presented by Aquarium Drunkard, Maston plays a live session with L'Eclair at Ritmo Studios in Leysin, Switzerland.  This version showcases tracks from the Maston discography. 

Full tracklisting:

[00:00] 01. Rain Dance

[03:49] 02. Swans 

[05:44] 03. Scenic

[08:00] 04. Souvenir

[09:49] 05. Les Monstres

[12:02] 06. Swiss Franc

And a link to the most recent record, Souvenir:

https://smarturl.it/maston_souvenir

 

Maston x Ghost

Maston performs "Ghost" from the album, Souvenir, live from Ritmo Studio in Leysin, Switzerland with support from members of L'eclair.

https://smarturl.it/maston_souvenir

Recorded live at Ritmo Studio, Leysin, Switzerland

Engineer: Benoit Gerard

Electric Piano/Vocals: Frank Maston

Synthesizer: Sébastien Bui

Guitar: Stefan Lilov

Percussion: Alain Sandri Bass: Elie Ghersinu

Drums: Yavor Lilov Composed by Maston

Filmed by Club Soda

Directed and Edited by Valentin Schaer

Cameras by Patrick Chevalley & Valentin Schaer

Maston x Souvenir (Album)

In 2018, composer/producer Frank Maston was living in Paris, working on new music when he was introduced to Geneva based band L’Eclair. Blown away by what he heard, there seemed to be a mutual understanding and appreciation for that loungey, groovy world of library and soundtrack music from the seventies. An immediate thought occurred to him - what if he could record with this simpatico group backing him up? The result is the colorful and kinetic album Souvenir, out today September 10 on Innovative Leisure / Calico Discos (the label of Cali band Allah Las).
To accompany the album release, Maston is sharing a new animated video for album single "Do You Feel It Working?" According to Maston "This song was written in the summer of 2018 and recorded in February 2019. It was the first vocal song I wrote since my debut album. L’Eclair joins me on the recording, which was engineered and mixed by Jasper Geluk at Tone Boutique in Haarlem. I’m playing the Rhodes Piano and singing.   The video was animated by Mark Neeley.”
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Maston x Swiss Franc

As premiered on Shindig, Frank Maston releases the latest single from his upcoming record, Souvenir (due out September 10th, 2021).  According to Maston:

“‘Swiss Franc’ is the last song on the album and the song we close the live show with. The light and dark elements give it a nice sense of balance – like a discotheque dirge. The video was made using some analogue video synthesisers, blended with a swiss franc coin which I modelled and animated. It’s one of my favourite tracks on the record and is very emblematic of my relationship and musical collaboration with L’Eclair, hence the title.”

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In 2018, composer/producer Frank Maston was living in Paris, working on new music when he was introduced to Geneva based band L’Eclair. Blown away by what he heard, there seemed to be a mutual understanding and appreciation for that loungey, groovy world of library and soundtrack music from the ’70s. An immediate thought occurred to him – what if he could record with this simpatico group backing him up? The result is the colourful and kinetic album Souvenir.