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Fakear

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24, Jun 23 Marseille
Esplanade Du J4,
France
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02, Jul 23 Montreal
MTELUS,
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09, Jul 23 Colmar
Decibulles 2023, Vallée de Villé,
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28, Sep 23 Nancy
L'AUTRE CANAL,
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30, Sep 23 Grenoble
La Belle Electrique,
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06, Oct 23 Le Mans
L'Oasis,
France
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07, Oct 23 Saint-Étienne
LE FIL,
France
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12, Oct 23 Toulon
Le Live,
France
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13, Oct 23 Aix-en-Provence
6MIC,
France
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14, Oct 23 Paris
Espace Michel Berger (EMB),
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15, Oct 23 Magny Le Hongre
File 7,
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27, Oct 23 Brest
LA CARENE,
France
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02, Feb 24 Paris
Salle Pleyel,
France
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Fakear is Théo Le Vigoreux - an uncannily suitable name for a young producer whose energy is seemingly limitless. At 24 years old, Fakear has already taken his globally-tuned dance music across the world, playing shows from London to Tokyo, supporting Bonobo and selling out Paris’ prestigious Olympia in 2015. The journey that’s led to 2016 and his debut album, Animal, has been three years and 4 EPs long. One of them reached the top 10 in France, and his mus...

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Fakear is Théo Le Vigoreux - an uncannily suitable name for a young producer whose energy is seemingly limitless. At 24 years old, Fakear has already taken his globally-tuned dance music across the world, playing shows from London to Tokyo, supporting Bonobo and selling out Paris’ prestigious Olympia in 2015.

The journey that’s led to 2016 and his debut album, Animal, has been three years and 4 EPs long. One of them reached the top 10 in France, and his music has drawn the attention of M.I.A., AlunaGeorge, DJ Snake, Annie Mac, The FADER and ODESZA - one of many peers who’ve asked Fakear for remixes.

But the real journey, of course, goes further back. Le Vigoreux was born in Caen, Calvados, Normandy - an ancient part of France, and the same place William the Conqueror came from. His parents were musicians too, and they raised him on a steady diet of of Maurice Ravel symphonies, and songs by Ismael Lo and Cheb Mami. By the time he got to high school, he was listening avidly to Daft Punk, and had obtained an electric guitar. Before long he’d joined a ska-punk band with Gabriel Legeleux, who’d go on to become fellow rising star in French electronic music, Superpoze.

By 2013, he’d kindled a buzz in Cargo de Caen, creating a reputation under the name of Fakear ("Fake Ears” in English.) His electronic collages were inspired by influences as divergent but inspiring as the post-dubstep scene in London, and the films of Miyazaki. He found his way to Paris, where he signed with the independent French music label Nowadays Records, and released the EP Sauvage in June 2014.

Subsequent single “La Lune Rousse” gained millions of listeners across Spotify, Soundcloud and French radio, and this helped him to debut on the international level. A few months later, his musical voyage led to Japan, and rumination on his childhood’s ghosts changed his art's inception deeply. “This Country gave me a finer desire for music, and a greater attention to detail,” he told Canal + around the launch of his EP Asakusa. “It has been a personal and musical stage that I exceeded. All my pieces are like that: the pictures of my sensations and of my imagination in a precise moment. I am not the same as yesterday, and not the same as tomorrow”.

In 2015 he decided to take a break from the Parisian metropolis, and moved to the mountains. “I needed it, to seize a new primary “something”, something wild and authentic”. It was in this new setting that Fakear crafted his debut album Animal. The album title recalls the wolf silhouette that he has tattooed on his forearm. Chez Fakear, the machines never filter the instincts. Instead, they are amplified.

Animal ranges from the flamenco refrain of “Sheer-Khan”, through the original composition with Andreya Triana (Bonobo) on “Light Bullet”, to a stunning collaboration with Rae Morris, a new pop star in-the-making with whom Fakear maintains an elegant complicity.

Throughout the album, Fakear ensured that his electronic methodology enhanced, rather than limited his raw instinct. He built sounds from memories and from talismanic items; The result is an album as suited to the dance floor as it to listening under the stars, or in the moonlight of the “Lune Rousse”. In the studio as on the boards, Fakear’s music is lively, incarnated and instinctive. Definitively Animal.

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Forthcoming Events

24, Jun 23 Marseille
Esplanade Du J4
France TICKETS
02, Jul 23 Montreal
MTELUS
Canada TICKETS
09, Jul 23 Colmar
Decibulles 2023, Vallée de Villé
France TICKETS
28, Sep 23 Nancy
L'AUTRE CANAL
France TICKETS
30, Sep 23 Grenoble
La Belle Electrique
France TICKETS
06, Oct 23 Le Mans
L'Oasis
France TICKETS
07, Oct 23 Saint-Étienne
LE FIL
France TICKETS
12, Oct 23 Toulon
Le Live
France TICKETS
13, Oct 23 Aix-en-Provence
6MIC
France TICKETS
14, Oct 23 Paris
Espace Michel Berger (EMB)
France TICKETS
15, Oct 23 Magny Le Hongre
File 7
France TICKETS
27, Oct 23 Brest
LA CARENE
France TICKETS
02, Feb 24 Paris
Salle Pleyel
France TICKETS