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Artist
Trésors
12+ albums
electronicafrenchdancetechnosynthpop
about
Raw or rough are the best terms to describe Trésors' first approach to electronic music. Launched in Paris by two homonyms that seemed world's apart, the band is created on an impulse, like a bluff. Being very active during the last years within the post-punk & noise scene, both Adriens decide to unplug the guitars and replace them with synthesizers, which seems quite heretic and unusual at the time. After a few hesitations, the duo find their pace and compose « Visionnaires » locked in a parisian apartment during a blistering summer. In result, they deliver a synthetic and melancoly-driven music, fragile even, on the verge of dance and inspired by dark & retro images (Michael Mann, Blade Runner & Terence Malick). Quickly, they remix artists such as Arnaud Rebotini (better known as Black Strobe), of Montreal and Thieves Like Us and attract media attention. They play gigs alongside acts like Suuns, Casiokids, Puro Instinct, Teengirl Fantasy and Toro y Moi. The band take risks while playing live and find they still have their indie instincts, dismanteling the usual border between electronic acts and their public. Brought closer together after a spiritual journey to Israël and a tour all around Europe and the US, Trésors build up their assurance and draw a logical link from these new life experiences. Sometimes worn by their heavy and ever-present past but also by sleepwalking experiences as well as haunting and recurring dreams, the two Adriens compose « Missionaires », their
