Sylvain Chauveau
Many of us are still not sure what Simon Reynolds was thinking when he coined the questionable term “post rock” in the 1990s. Post what. Post office? Much of it was just nerdy guys from Wicker Park in horn-rimmed glasses, showboating in awkward, abstruse time signatures — which, when you think about it, is hair metal with all the fun blanched out. The French-born, Belgium-based composer Sylvain Chauveau got lumped into this category with the release of his solo debut in 2000, but his work more closely resembles the Sargasso Sea explorations of Hector Zazou and ZNR, or the melancholic minimalism of Michael Nyman, or, for that matter, the ambient efforts of Brian Eno, rather than anything you would have caught at Lounge Ax. In fact, over the course... Read More
- City Of Origin:
- Bayonne, France
- Genre:
- Classical, 20/21, Minimalism, Experimental, Ambient/Electronic
- Birthdate:
- 1971