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Author, composer, producer, performer and musician HARMO DRAÜS is a French alt-pop and dreamgaze artist based between Normandy and Paris, France. She's also been part of DAVID SHAW AND THE BEAT project since 2020.
On April 7th 2023, Harmo will be releasing her first solo EP, entitled MISFITS, on the record label she founded in 2019, Lilie’s Creatures.
Consisting of 5 tracks (including Harmo’s cover version of Into Dust by Mazzy Star, one of the leading dreamgaze bands of the 90’s), this EP has already been partly unveiled on January 20th 2023 with the release of Miles Away and its official video co-directed by the artist herself.
A second track named IMH - also part of the EP in its original version - will be out to the world on March 17th 2023, alongside a dark-club remix by Cate Hortl.
In her first opus, Harmo reveals her very own personal world between lo-fi ambient textures and modern sounds with a psychedelic and melancholic touch inspired by dreampop, nu-gaze and electronic movements.
Either in the studio or on stage, the artist takes us to her phantasmagorical, magical and dreamy lands thanks to narrative and visual intentions drawn by her cinematographic references from David Lynch’s filmo- graphy and the Twin Peaks series to Tim Burton’s early work and some of De Palma‘s productions.
Developping a keen interest for UK and US-based music scene emphasized by her stay in Glasgow (Scotland) as a student, she has been strongly influenced by Kate Bush, Siouxie and The Banshees, PJ Harvey, Pink Floyd, Supertramp and more recently Warpaint, Just Mustard, Beach House, Mogwai, EERA and Léonie Pernet. Some will also draw comparisons to Bat for Lashes, Agnes Obel or Soap&Skin.
Shot with vintage camcorders, as a slightly weird testimony of a road-trip just as incongruous, Miles Away's videoclip depicts two friends who take the odd decision to free a horse from a carousel and to offer him a long journey. The duo, then transformed into a trio, drives its new companion in all places they visit together, while he's harnessed on top of their old black hearse-like car.
Photo credits : Clémence Catherine
