WOODKID

It’s obviously video Monday here on Grateful Grapefruit. That would be the case if I only told you about the amazing video to the first single of Woodkid. Don’t get me wrong, the video is a piece of art. But let me fill you in on the music project, too.

Woodkid will undoubtedly is the first surprise of 2011. An unexpected arrival far from the manufactured buzz. Woodkid is actually Yoann Lemoine, previously known for his career as a video director and photographeer without fault (Yelle, Moby and more recently Katy Perry for “Teenage Dream”).

The legend says that on a shoot in the USA, Woodkid received, straight from the hands of great American guitarist Richie Havens, a banjo that immediately replaced his piano, at least for a while. Without neglecting the videos (or film, which is part of projects), Woodkid decided to devote himself to music. Indeed, Yoann Lemoine made the video of Iron himself , which features Top Model Agyness Deyn.

The four tracks on the Iron EP (plus two remixes of Iron by the English Mystery Jets and Gucci Vump, the duo of Brodinski and Guillaume Briere The Shoes), opens by the eponymous Iron, epic pop with a powerful mounted symphony, this first EP Woodkid (produced by Woodkid, Julien Delfaud and Benjamin Lebeau also from The Shoes) immediately announces the influences of the young man.

With ‘Iron’ you discover a universe of fragile grace. Four original songs, Iron, Brooklyn, Baltimore’s Fireflies and Wasteland sometimes written on guitar, sometimes on piano, always with disconcerting ease, after one listen we are made feel like we are witnessing the creation of these wonderful stories with Woodkid himself.

Woodkid currently working on his album which includes some surprising collaborations and I can’t wait for the debut album to come out.