Géraldine Laurent | it

The Geraldine Fibbers was the bluesy, grungey, country tinged vehicle of singer/songwriter Carla Bozulich, a longtime veteran of the Southern California post-punk scene who previously tenured in Ethyl Meatplow and Neon Vein. After the former's 1993 breakup, Bozulich formed the Fibbers with guitarist Daniel Keenan, bassist William Tutton, violinist Jessy Greene, and drummer Kevin Fitzgerald, debuting the following year on the Sympathy for the Record Industry label with the EP Get Thee Gone. After signing to Virgin, the group issued 1995's acclaimed Lost Somewhere Between the Earth and My Home; Butch, a more angular noise-rock-oriented effort thanks to the influence...

A long path covered since the very first parties at the Boy or Rex Club, where Laurent discovered the synthetic musics of house and techno... He's at the time a student who just got graduated from the ENSCI, (French National High School of Creation). A cursus which enabled him to tame all the tools for creation, traditional and numeric. He takes part in many projects such as a CD deck for DJs. Raves from early 90's are blooming. Laurent finds a new way of expression: the mix. He starts as a techno and trance DJ at Radio FG in 1991,...

Laurent De Wilde, the Mid-Atlantic piano player of the year, is a graduate of the Ecole Normale Supérieure. This school and a few others like it are called Les Grandes Ecoles and they are comparable to the Ivy League. They produce the elite in this country. And so it seemed appropriate to ask De Wilde: "What's a nice guy like you doing in a métier like this?" He replied with a very American have-a-nice-day croon: "It seemed like a good idea at the time." The time had been late. De Wilde did not decide to take jazz seriously until the...