Academie
Academie
Genres: synthpop, new wave, minimal wave, 80s, eighties
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About Academie
With their haunting debut single Sulphur, wife Jean-Louise Nel and husband Alex Parker, launched their Johannesburg based band Academie. Multi-instrumentalists Jean-Louise (Dear Reader, Fulka) and Alex (ISO, Tumi Molekane and Ross Jack) are both established musicians in the South African music scene. Academie represents the synthesis of two evolved artistic sensibilities. Their music is laced with the whispered melancholy of a deferred nostalgia. It feels ephemeral, crystalline as it dissolves and reconstitutes itself in a cyclical aesthetic of the impermanent. Jean-Louise’s eerie vocals are subtly blended with her own viola loops and electric guitar against a disquieting rhythmic backdrop of drum pads and warm synthesizers played by Alex. The overall effect is disconcertingly beautiful. - Christopher Fotheringham
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