Sylvain Chauveau

France

Born: 01 January 1971

Years Active: 90, 2000

Genres: Avant-Garde, Pop/Rock

Styles: Modern Composition, Experimental

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Without any big announcements or major-label support, Sylvain Chauveau emerged in the early 2000s as one of France's most interesting figures. His solo albums and projects Micro:Mega and Arca have ties to the post-rock sound of the late ‘90s, but Chauveau refines the recipe, dropping the "jamming" associated with the style while retaining its melancholia, creating large-scale works out of humble parts, cinematic albums out of fragments of cello and piano melodies. His first solo CD, Le Livre Noir du Capitalisme, came out in 2000. Chauveau sta...

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