Astrïd - High Blues

These days it's quite an unlikely event that a foreign group or artist will end up releasing a record on Rune Grammofon. With an increasing amount of excellent local Norwegian talent struggling to get their music heard on record, we tend to focus our attention in that direction. But when presented with these recordings we soon realised this was simply too good to turn down. French group Astrïd started life around founder members Cyril Secq and Yvan Ros back in 1997, first as a guitar / drums duo before the arrival of violinist Vanina Andreani the year after and clarinettist Guillaume Wickel in 2005. Since 2007 they have lived and worked between Nantes and Marseille. The music of Astrïd has roots in improvised music, ambient, 70's folk and jazz, classical and contemporary music from Ravel to Pärt. There's also a kinship to artist like Philip Glass, Brian Eno, Mark Hollis, No Neck Blues Band and the Rachels (who they have played with several times) but first and foremost they have estab Style: Psychedelic Rock