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Vista Le Vie
12+ albums
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Their music arouses curiosity as well as their name, a cut ´n´paste of words oddly juxtaposed. Their name, a band?s name yet. You already form a band even when there is only two people in it. The masquerade is over, let?s start introductions: Vista Le Vie is Max, from Dijon (east of France) and Gilles, from Avignon (south). They met in Paris (bless capital city centralisation!). Max started at the early age of six learning classic percussions at the local music school, dabbled with rock ´n´ roll, got a crush for Jacques Loussier´s record Pulsion (drums & piano album of a famous jazz pianist), overfed with Coltrane´s jazz and then got fond of reggae, chased 70s soul nuggets and, eventually, in the back of his pals, feverishly attended Laurent Garnier´s DJ sets ?who had a residency at L´An-Fer, the local techno mecca in the early 90s. He then moved to the big city, Paris. Menial jobs. Gilles got his musical education learning classical piano at the local music school too. He listened as well to Miles Davis, Coltrane´s and, above all, Thelonious Monk´s music, which, in the end turned out to be confusing for someone who was brought up in a Cartesian environment. He then fell on U.R.´ s sound, the Detroit techno gurus . U stands for Underground: there´s more than a mere aesthetics option here. Moved then to the big city as well. And found a job at the now-defunct Passage du Nord, a local music theatre where he could meet Trilok Gurtu (percussionist), Zawinful (founder & member
