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#SessionLive with Brisa Day Roché & Marnix Dorrestein aka IX

Brisa Roche and IX.

© Christophe Crenel

By: Laurence Aloir

2 mins

BRMD aka Brisa Roché & IX, an omnivorous musical duo inspired by 60s pop, 80s electronics and modern hip-hop.

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In 2007, the young Dutch teenager Marnix Dorrestein got his hands on a compilation of Rock & Folk and discovered the solar and hypnotic title of Brisa Roché -

Heavy Dreaming

.

It's love at first sight.

Fast forward nine years and fate brings them face to face on an urgent composition, the beginning of a lively and close collaboration where their qualities (speed, openness in style) come together in 17 pieces written between Paris and Amsterdam.

Distilled into 13 songs, a refreshing pop album was born - natural, emotional and modernist.

The skillful voices respond to each other and dance in the wake of androgyny, mixing acoustic orchestrations, lush harmonies and electronic production and plunging us into a carefree musical atmosphere, in the manner of a contemporary Gershwingian blues.

Periods and styles intersect, from academicism to futuristic experimentation, a tribal rhapsody where you can lose yourself in the restorative bath of joyful chaos.

Marnix Dorrestein

 received a Gold Disc for producing and co-writing the album

Kersvers

 by Herman van Veen and an Edison Award for modern adaptations of 17th century music on the album

Hush

 with mezzo- soprano Nora Fischer.

An independent producer, he has been a creative and manager in dozens of international projects.

American artist

Brisa Roché

signed to Blue Note in 2005. Her inimitable voice and rich production angles have given each of her 9 personal albums cult status.

In 2017, she founded the independent label Black Ash and, in 2019, she produced 6 songs for the ceremonies of the Deauville American Film Festival.

Writer, composer and producer, her catalog of records and artists continues to grow.

Brisa Roche and IX.

© Artbreaker Music

BRMD

Album  (Black Ash / ArtbreakerMusic 2022).

Titles performed at the Grand studio

- Waking Up With Another Man

, Live RFI

- Fluent In Silence

, from the album BRMD

- Ego Boii

, Live RFI

see the clip.

Their playlist

- Am I Crazy

by Mathieu Boogaerts (Marnix)

see the clip

- Cracks

by Little Ellen (Brisa)

see the clip

- Point and Kill

by Little Simz (Marnix)

watch the clip

- Rainbow

by Don Nino (Brisa)

see the clip.

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