Photo: Pierre Emmanuel Testard
Thibaud Vanhooland doesn't need much to live, or at least he doesn't need much to make music—only four things: a guitar, a keyboard, his voice, and a trumpet, which he swiped from his father at the age of three. In the quarter-century that followed, the Frenchman has not only grown more cunning; he also released an unassuming demo (in 2016) and a proper debut EP, »On S’Emmène Avec Toi« (this year). On it is guitar, keyboards, voice, and sadly only woefully little trumpet. Luckily, he made up for that over the summer with the single »Papillon« and invited a little choir along too. No matter what, though, the principle remains the same: funk in the floorboards, chanson as foundational structure, synthesizer in the finish. Simple though it may be, it sounds full and round like a vintage wine.
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