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OLIVER LIGHT
British Pop Rock
OLIVER LIGHT: “Let There Be Light!”
By Laurent Charliot
There are no accidents. Oliver Light’s enthusiasm for British rock was surely born from the records his parents played on repeat when he was still a very young child and they were living in England.
Music—and that music in particular—then became his beacon, his light. Let there be light. “Let there be light.” The very light that would guide him, serving as both his source and his goal. The light that, once back in France, would push him from listening to doing.
At 14, he discovered the melodies of The Beatles and the raw fire of Arctic Monkeys at the very same time. No coincidences… But for all its harbor, cranes, warehouses, and quays, Nantes is not Liverpool. Once that was accepted, only two options remained for Oliver Light if he wanted to fully satisfy his passion for sounds from across the Channel. The first was to stay self-conscious—convinced those French chords would never sound like those of Perfidious Albion. The second was to decide to go for it: no overthinking, no imitation, no comparison. To take French leave—to slip away without saying a word. Simply to write the words and create the sounds that rise naturally from the gut and the heart. Oliver Light chose the second, the freest—and he was right to!
And there was light! After two albums and countless concerts over nearly a decade, Oliver Light returns with new songs recorded at Studio Pigalle by the legendary sound engineer Dominique Blanc-Francard. The man who sat behind the boards of the mythical Studios d’Hérouville, Davout, and Ferber for Pink Floyd, T. Rex, or Daho has refined the artist’s sound, turning it into one of the finest jewels in the display case of English pop-rock produced in France in many years. A truly precious stone, exquisitely cut, carried by the grace of lyrical vocal melodies—one that the light of a new day should make sparkle. And there was light…
By Laurent Charliot
There are no accidents. Oliver Light’s enthusiasm for British rock was surely born from the records his parents played on repeat when he was still a very young child and they were living in England.
Music—and that music in particular—then became his beacon, his light. Let there be light. “Let there be light.” The very light that would guide him, serving as both his source and his goal. The light that, once back in France, would push him from listening to doing.
At 14, he discovered the melodies of The Beatles and the raw fire of Arctic Monkeys at the very same time. No coincidences… But for all its harbor, cranes, warehouses, and quays, Nantes is not Liverpool. Once that was accepted, only two options remained for Oliver Light if he wanted to fully satisfy his passion for sounds from across the Channel. The first was to stay self-conscious—convinced those French chords would never sound like those of Perfidious Albion. The second was to decide to go for it: no overthinking, no imitation, no comparison. To take French leave—to slip away without saying a word. Simply to write the words and create the sounds that rise naturally from the gut and the heart. Oliver Light chose the second, the freest—and he was right to!
And there was light! After two albums and countless concerts over nearly a decade, Oliver Light returns with new songs recorded at Studio Pigalle by the legendary sound engineer Dominique Blanc-Francard. The man who sat behind the boards of the mythical Studios d’Hérouville, Davout, and Ferber for Pink Floyd, T. Rex, or Daho has refined the artist’s sound, turning it into one of the finest jewels in the display case of English pop-rock produced in France in many years. A truly precious stone, exquisitely cut, carried by the grace of lyrical vocal melodies—one that the light of a new day should make sparkle. And there was light…
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