The Dance composer Cascadeur in the Lab Jury
Artist, Composer, Musician
Cascadeur (i.e. “stuntman”), was born Alexandre Longo in Metz in the Lorraine region of France. He hails from a musical family and began studying piano at age eight.
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His first foray into mainstream success came in 2008 via the Inrockuptibles’ CQFD competition. Now, if you’re wondering whether you’ve seen his stage act, then you haven’t seen it: he wears a jumpsuit and a Mexican wrestler’s mask beneath a motorcycle helmet.
At a very young age he began writing his own compositions, which naturally led to his first album, The Human Octopus in 2011. On March 17 of that year, he issued the album’s first track, entitled “Into the Wild”, with the second one, “Memories”, following the next day, and so on until March 28 when all the album’s songs were out.
His second album, Ghost Surfer, consists of sixteen songs, including “The Crossing”, a duet with Stuart A. Staples, founder and singer of the group Tindersticks (see catalogue p. 93). Surfer came out in 2013 and is sung almost entirely in English. Pushing himself even further, Cascadeur imagined an still more elaborate intermingling of acoustic instruments and their digital clones. Doubling himself, multiplying himself is an idea that continues to fascinate him, and he proves it by inviting a variety of renowned musicians to push back the limits of what is musically possible.
At the 2015 Victoires de la Musique, Cascadeur brought home the Victoire de l’Album de Musique Electronique / Dance.
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