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Beyond fashions but never out of his time, Jeff Sharel travels on another musical planet. The beginning of the 90's is also the beginning of the techno music, which is then hardly understood. It doesn't matter! This musician succumbs to it. At the end of the decade, this movement is eventually recognised and the French Touch is a success. But where is Jeff ? Far away from here, in the United States, working for the Statra Label (for his first album), then in Africa (with Frédéric Galliano and then Julien Lourau), where he explores the blend between electronic and organic music (jazz, afro beat). Today, while a part of techno musicians are attracted by pop music and its instruments, Jeff Sharel returns to a full electronic music with his second album "Resistances"."Resistances" is a personal album with no more obvious influences: house, dub and afro beat have been digested, assimilated and are now murmuring and dancing together without flagrant distinction. A record marked by some work on sound material. It is bewitching and warm, it crackles with the voices of the New Yorker Astrid Suryanto (I Want Come and Show Your Face), the Belgian David Linx (Résistances) and the African Ali Boulo Sento (Dounia). Finally, a record in which electronics is predominant: " the aim of this album is also to contradict present pontiffs, according to which there is no more interest in electronic music. " As a proof, if need be, of the contrary!Il n'en est pas à son coup d'essai. Après un premier maxi solo en 1995, Jeff Sharel sort son premier album éponyme en 1998 et participe à de multiples projets bouillonnants d'inventivité et de diversité, tant avec Julien Lourau que Frédéric Galliano ou Tony Allen. Sharel s'installe dans l'univers musical et en investit des facettes hétéroclites. Pétri de culture techno, dub, jazz et afrobeat, ce deuxième album "Résistances" se veut la synthèse convergente de ces approches mélodiques et rythmiques. Sans fusion grossière, sans gros sabots de machine à club, le résultat vaut son pesant de deep house bien fichue. Le son électro y est un matériau noble et palpable, au même titre que la voix (celles de Astrid Suryanto, David Linx et de Ali Boulo Sento). Pas d'exotisme, pas de brassage intermusical mais plutôt une acculturation des genres, une assimilation des influences par l'unité technoïde. Si le sample instrumental et les phrasés chantés ornent le tout électro, on reste dans un univers de techno assez chaste, sans rigorisme mais avec une volonté de simplicité, d'harmonie dépouillée. Down tempo, tempéré : un album indolent et souple. - © RadioceRos