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Grenouille

About Me



Grenouille starts as the solo project of Javier A. Born in 1984 in La Laguna, the only rainy town in Canary Islands. At the age of fourteen, he discovered a dusty guitar on his grandparents’ garage. He started to learn how to play it and soon he was forming his first band. Some years later, he had been part of several music projects. He studied fine arts between Madrid and Tenerife, and started to create short films. Between 2007 and 2008, he finished writing and recording his solo demo “Shadows of the lagoon” in a home studio. One day, he decided to leave everything behind and took a flight to London with just a bag full of instruments.

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 20/01/2007
Sounds Like: I don't know if it sounds like them, but they're the ones that come to my head: Jeff buckley, Sigur Ros, French Chanson (Jacques Brel, Edith Piaf), Patrick Wolf, Beirut, Coco Rosie, Radiohead, Matt Elliott, Nick Cave, Almost everything with a celesta or a dulcitone playing, Tom Waits, Manyfingers, Devotchka, Yann Tiersen, Philip Glass, Theremin recordings (Clara Rockmore, Spellbound and the day the earth stood still soundtracks...), The postal service, Andrew bird, A hack and a hacksaw, Kev Hopper musical saw recordings, Calexico, fado (specially a song called confesso), Nick Drake, Sufjan Stevens, Xiu xiu, Migala, Leonard Cohen, Danny Elfman, Arcade fire, Russian folk songs, PJ Harvey, Bjork, Godspeed you black emperor!, Silver Mount Zion, Dominique A, old tango recordings, Tchaikovsky's nutcracker, Eric Satie piano works, Jon Brion, Rufus Wainwright, old nintendo games and 8 bit sounds, Nino Rota soundtracks, distorted percussion sounds, a little bit of aphex twin, autechre, plaid...
Type of Label: Unsigned

My Blog

Shadows of the lagoon (English/Spanish)

Hi!A few weeks ago I received the first copies of my demo Shadows of the lagoon Its been a long time since I finished writing these songs (almost two years!) and finally I can see my demo finished....
Posted by on Wed, 25 Mar 2009 18:30:00 GMT

Still looking for musicians!

Hello! I am still lookin for musicians to play my music live. For the moment, we are a cellist, drummer, guitarist/violinist/pianist and meI need a violinist and someone to play double bass (or someth...
Posted by on Mon, 14 Jul 2008 10:14:00 GMT