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Misplaced / Ithinkso

by Crayon

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You're not gonna believe What I've been dying to express How can you pretend that you're not trying to impress I locked myself out Misplaced my keys Wandered in the walls Of all the peoples in a whim Intuition passing through me like I ain't away I hope I found out I have no doubt Say, you're with me come back here Go easy on me Say, you're with me come back here Out of gas In the ride, out of line Hourglass, one-sided, I pushed it as far as I could do it Try to act normal Vehicles passing I know that being stuck here is how life will test me An electroshock, a problem in the engine I'm checking every other car that fell into the trenches I hope I found out I have no doubt Say, you're with me come back here Go easy on me Say, you're with me come back here
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Cementing himself as an integral part of the French Indie music scene, French producer and multi-instrumentalist Crayon, real name Lauren Larue, signed to Erased Tapes in 2021 to herald in a new chapter in his life.

His two track EP, consisting of Misplaced and Ithinkso, sees him going back to his electronic, UK-infused roots. Whilst the opening song Misplaced — featuring vocals from Gracy Hopkins and Jo Lowenthal of Australian indie band Tora — maintains a clearer narrative; the second is a blend of traditional 00’s uk garage and jazz, almost fully instrumental. It’s this clear contrast the producer wanted to explore further, made possible by spending a month away in Morocco with choreographer Leo Walk and a bunch of other creatives and friends in early 2020. While Misplaced had already been recorded several months before, Ithinkso was sitting comfortably amongst a raft of other unfinished songs in Crayon’s hard drive. “It was only after seeing Leo’s excitement at first listen, and the incredible and abstract dance moves he would throw while discovering the song that I knew I had to do something with it,” the artist recalls.

As he and Leo went to spend a week at Plastician’s mystical domain Jean Francois Fourtou, in the outskirts of Marrakech, they found themselves submerged in a parallel world, surrounded by giant sculptures of insects, and a fully equipped, real sized reversed house. One quiet night they decided to experiment together with Leo repeating specific moves, almost turning himself into a human boomerang, while Crayon’s assignment was to write an assimile yet efficient electronic beat to it. After sampling a very short bit from French Soul singer Enchantée Julia (who Crayon was producing for at the time), Ithinkso was born, named after what they would both hear phonetically from the sample.

Both tracks wouldn’t have been completed without yet another collaborator, Crayon’s then roommate Bastien Brison, a Paris based jazz pianist. Together they held, when Lauren returned from the trip, what they simply called The Jazz Club in their apartment. It was a weekly jam/live painting/dancing event that they opened to a (not so) small lucky audience as a way to cope with the absence of live music, and events in general. Once again, the clear contrast between traditional jazz music and modern sounds and movements, that gave him the urge to make this project.

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released March 8, 2022

Produced & mixed by Crayon
Mastered by Fred Deces
Artwork by Lossapardo

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Crayon Paris, France

Crayon has been cementing himself as an integral part of the Parisian indie music scene.

His jazz club with Bastien Brison has brought together singers, musicians, poets, painters, contemporary and swing dancers from around the neighbourhood. Together they are blurring the lines between traditional jazz practice, electronic production, UK garage, American hip hop and soul into a new kind of R&B.
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