Tularosa Tularosa, Adrien Legrand, Inaniel Swims

• 1 New Mexico, 1881 00:47
• 2 Alezan 03:14
• 3 Quiet Alma 03:47
• 4 Fuego 04:47
• 5 Forest 03:10
• 6 Sierra Morada 04:29
• 7 Cabalgata 04:05
• 8 Moleskine 21,59x27,94 04:33
• 9 Loud Tinta 08:50
• 10 Light, Junipers, 2 Birds 02:55
• Total Runtime 40:37

Info for Tularosa

Elegant pop with a touch of desert sand: musically, Adrien Legrand and Inaniel Swims operate within an elegant and accessible independent pop style. Carried by melancholic piano, analogue synthesisers, reverberating surf guitars and expansive, multi-voiced vocal harmonies, they create a soundtrack that draws clear inspiration from Ennio Morricone and the Beach Boys. It is a cinematic journey that flows gently and contemplatively – yet in which revolvers occasionally ring out.

Tularosa transports the audience to the monumental and fiery landscapes of New Mexico in 1881. Far removed from the classic, violence-glorifying Western clichés, this visual and auditory experience tells a sensitive, almost hypnotic story of the deep bond and passion between a young man and an extraordinary orange horse with a white head.

Adrien Legrand, piano, synthesizer, vocals
Inaniel Swims, guitar, vocals

Adrien Legrand
waited until his 30th birthday to present his first songs under his own name. The French song scene has seen many singers brandishing their civil status in the city as well as on stage, but if for some it is obvious from the start to impose their name, for others, it takes time to adopt it. The path to self sometimes includes a few detours.

The click took place in 2017. Composer and keyboardist in the Normandy bands Gandi Lake and Veik - two bands with radically different aesthetics (the first leaning towards the glorious heritage of Anglo-Saxon pop and the second towards the German experimental music of the seventies) -, Adrien decided to open a third parallel path, his own. The friction between the idea of more intimate songs and orchestrations with a broad pop spectrum appeals to him, there is surely a territory to be discovered somewhere between Arnaud Fleurent-Didier and the Canadian group Homeshake.

No need to play loud, Adrien Legrand prefers to handle the silences to offer a place of choice to the piano, the voice and the choirs. A way to make his place very gently, expressing simple emotions, without artifice, and aiming at the heart.

Inaniel Swims
is a French multi-disciplinary artist, illustrator, and indie musician who has built a unique profile combining DIY garage-pop music with specialized maritime and festival illustration work. Operating under his own moniker, his life and work are deeply intertwined with independent art culture and nomadic sea travel.

Musical CareerBefore establishing his solo project, he active within the French indie and pop scenes as a multi-instrumentalist. He has performed as a singer, guitarist, or bassist for several notable French underground bands.

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