BBC 6 Music-tipped Belgian singer-songwriter Nicolas Michaux is today sharing the Natalya Lobanova-animated video for the single, "Cancer’. The track is lifted from his recently-released album, Amour Colère which is out now via Capitane Records. The ten-track collection, which translates to ‘Love Anger’, is a collection of touching and personal songs to Michaux, recorded at his place on Samsø Island, Denmark during the winter and spring of 2019.
It was last June, Europe was cautiously stepping out of the lockdown, the sun was beating down on the city and summer was keeping all of its promises. Nicolas Michaux and his musicians had not seen each other for months, they were happy to meet again. They decided to play and record 5 songs from Michaux's new album: Amour Colère.
The joy of reunion then gave way to a suspended...
Nicolas Michaux is both a singer-songwriter and music producer. Born and bred in Belgium he now divides his time between Brussels, where he is part of the musical collective Capitane Records, and Samso, where he tends his garden and writes his songs. Michaux sings in both English and French and his music stands at the crossroads of different traditions: the great era of the French "chanson", the American songwriters, the...
Belgian singer-songwriter Nicolas Michaux released his latest single 'Parrot', the third single from his upcoming album Amour Colère, a while ago. A long-time favourite of his live set, 'Parrot' shows Michaux at his most groovy, evoking both The Talking Heads and the Congolese rhythms that have long been an influence. The song features Morgan Vigilante's tight, dry drum sound, a signature of Michaux's production style, along with Michaux's slippery and...
The Belgian singer-songwriter Nicolas Michaux releases "Parrot", the third single from his upcoming album Amour Colère. A long-time staple of his live set, "Parrot" shows Michaux at his most groovy, evoking both The Talking Heads and the Congolese rhythms that have long been an influence. The song features Morgan Vigilante's tight, dry drum sound, a signature of Michaux's production style, along with Michaux's slippery and intelligent guitar and bass lines....
Nicolas Michaux releases 'Nos Retrouvailles' today, the new single from his upcoming album 'Amour Colère' out in September.
The single is one of those unusual, and nowadays rare songs in rhyming verse in a classical style. It has an ageless charm while at the same time It puts into words and music the mixed feelings of this current moment : a mystical, melancholy dream of mixed idleness and hopes. It’s...
