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Hervé Salters (General Elektriks): "It's important to keep talking about love"

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SessionLab with French-English keyboardist, singer and composer Hervé Salters of General Elektriks.

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By: Hortense Volle

2 mins

In Rennes, Brittany, during the 25th edition of the Mythos festival, Hortense Volle met the very groovy keyboardist, singer and composer Hervé Salters, alias General Elektriks.

Portrait of a crazy lover of synthesizers and funk, the inventor of a sunny, swirling and generous pop.

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In Rennes (Brittany), at Mythos, the speaking arts festival, I spoke with the very groovy Franco-English keyboardist, singer and composer Hervé Salters, the soul of General Elektriks.

An adventure launched in 2003 with the album "Cliquety Kliqk" and crowned, in 2009, by the hit

.

Thirteen years and 4 albums later, keyboard tinker Hervé Salters remains a fan of patchwork of all kinds, compressing and compressing electro, soul, funk, jazz and hip-hop to weave a solar, swirling and generous pop.

As always with General Elektriks, the messages of its 7th album, "Party Like a Human", stimulate the legs as much as the spirits.

A promise that takes on its full extent live.

Hervé Salters and his acolytes are real stage beasts and I took pleasure in checking it out at Mythos!

SessionLab by Hortense Volle: a conversation in complete privacy and in 3D audio (spatialized sound).

A podcast to listen to, preferably, with headphones.

Directed by: Benjamin Sarralié

Sound recording and 3D mixing: Fabien Mugneret

Production: RFI Lab

► To follow General Elektriks: 

Official website / YouTube / Facebook / Instagram 

► Titles broadcast:

- Excerpts from the album "Party Like a Human" (The Audio Kitchen / Wagram – 2021):

- Extract from the album "Carry No Ghosts" (The Audio Kitchen / Wagram – 2018):

- Excerpts from the album "To Be a Stanger" (The Audio Kitchen / Wagram – 2016):

- Excerpts from the album "Good City for Dreamers" (The Audio Kitchen / Wagram – 2009):

- Excerpts from the album "Cliquety Kliqk" (The Audio Kitchen / Wagram –2003):

And also :

Vercoquin –

Honeycut –

Frankie Smith –

Femi Kuti –

Blackalicious –

Blackalicious –

Billy Cobham –

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