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*Already certified Gold in France, and nominated for Best Debut Album & Best Breakthrough Live Act at Victoires de La Musique (France Music Awards), 'Music For A While' Slated for Release On August 24th, North American Dates To Follow*
Ambroise Willaume (vocals, guitar, piano), Christophe Musset (vocals, guitar) and Je���re���mie Arcache (vocals, cello) formed Revolver in late 2006. Willaume and Arcache met when they were six years old, at the Mai��'trise de Notre-Dame de Paris, the renowned music school for choristers and aspiring classical musicians. Willaume and Musset met in high school, where the latter taught the former guitar in exchange for being taught how to sing. In early 2007 the trio, named Revolver after a poster of the iconic Beatles album that hung in Willaume's bedroom, began gigging around Paris: small shows in friends' apartments, in front of 20, 30 people. As Willaume describes it, playing in these intimate environments was like music "in the olden days, chamber music - pop de chambre." By the summer of that year, Delabel/EMI had contacted the young band via their myspace. They were quickly signed, and released a critically acclaimed EP, Pop De Chambre, in France and the US. "It was training for our album," notes Musset.
'Music For A While' was recorded in Paris's Studio Pigalle. Producer Julien Delfaud (Phoenix, Herman Dune), helped Revolver focus but also widen their ideas. The studio environment also helped the band pull together their fantastically eclectic and century-skipping ideas, as well as gave the band the ability to recall the sunshine harmonies of Simon & Garfunkel and the Beach Boys, both of whom the band has always loved. Revolver's melodies can be traced to the likes of Henry Purcell, 17th century British Baroque composer and visionary, and John Dowland, the 16th century songwriter whose melancholy songs would, four centuries later, influence Benjamin Britten - another Revolver touchstone. Each of these composers and artists defined the popular melodic
and harmonic structures of their respective generations, and Revolver offers us a modern take blending each of these pop histories.
Are you ready to be heartbroken? And then, heart- mended?
"... the band demonstrates that they have already perfected the intricacies of a delightful chamber pop song... it is a recipe for greatness, executed to perfection." - Under The Radar
"Parisian trio Revolver are joining us with their eclectic style of music, inspired by the likes of Elliott Smith and The Kinks with romantic stylings that only the Parisians can muster. Stunningly beautiful harmonies and dreamy melodies make these guys a must see. " - The Great Escape Festival, UK