Blue Haired Girl

Blue Haired Girl is a french post-rock band whom singularity is to mix together acoustic instruments (cello, dutar, mandolin, piano...), electricity (guitars, bass) and electronic components (keyboards, drum machine, samples)

Blue-Haired Girl got together around a handful of fundamentals records (Tortoise, Labradford, Ulan Bator, Yann Tiersenâ) at the beginning of 1998 in Nancy. The band started to frame disparate instrumental tracks with Didier and Geoffroy's guitars, bass and keyboards. With the addition of Wojtek's drumkit, a demo was recorded on 4-tracks during summer in Dijon. The twelve songs -if sometimes a bit tentative- from this CD whose distribution was very limited, got a promising review in Kerosene (read the article). During the following year, tracks piled up, brittle or fierce, melodious or offkey, but nothing tangible emerged from the second recording session of summer 99â Tunes were aplenty but the band did not really work out, and eventually Wojtek decided to walk awayâ (see his band's website in the links). Fortunately, fate had its own way and Joseph joined in. As a cello player, he did not only bring his instrument's harmony, but also his open-mindedness and musical knowledge. A few gigs were improvised at home, butâ Joseph had to move to Belfort for a whole year and the project could not really move forward. Meanwhile, the band's sound was getting richer with the use of traditional instruments (Epinette des Vosges, Uzbek Doutar, Turkish Baralla, Indian sitar). In September 2000, with the coming of Joseph and Pierre H. (multi-instrumentalist-composer-interpreter), the start of a commonage was created along with the emergence of two different bands: firstly, JUST SPIRIT (Didier: guitar-bass, Geoffroy: guitar-drums-bass-singing, Joseph: singing-guitar-bass and Pierre H.: drums-bass), a Lo-fi "engineer" punk band which prowled the darkest bars of Nancy looking for an audience for its committed songs; and secondly, Blue-Haired Girl. To make up for the absence of rhythmic support and enhance the sound of the group, a connection was found with Yann. Electronics fan (rhythms and samples) and sound-crazy, his joining the band completely reshaped the structure of the tracks. Until then, the drums had commanded the stable and earthbound compositions, but Yann's rhythmic programming eventually made the building of towers of sounds that would aim at the skies possible. A few gigs took place during which instruments were swapped whilst playing the set, invading the stage and everybody contributed bits by bits to the tracks. The slow rhythm of Blue-Haired Girl was still carrying onâ During summer 2001, a recording session was started in a small studio in Grenoble that was to last for more than a year, along with gigs and song composition periods. At the beginning of 2002, Michel enrolled. As a guitar player sharing influences and sound experiments with Blue-Haired Girl, he first joined the band on stage to allow the display of all the musical parts, before fully taking part in the life and composition of the tracks. Eventually, during summer 2002, the website was officially launched and four tracks were released (mp3 and CD) among the huge collection of existing ones.

Post-rock, Tortoise, Aerial M, Boards of Canada or Pascal Comelade

Our music is influenced by electronica and world music as well as experimental approach. We are trying to achieve a mixing of different sound textures.