In France, Kid Francescoli have been filling the biggest clubs for years with their sound between alt-folk, dream-pop, electronica and sometimes pounding R'n'B beats. In September 2023, a new longplayer, "Azuro", will be released, with which Kid Francescoli will subsequently go on tour. In this context, they will also come to Cologne, Berlin, Hamburg and Munich between October 10 and 26.
Originally Mathieu Hocine from Marseille, who founded Kid Francescoli in 2002 as a solo project, wanted to become a professional soccer player. He made it as far as the amateur youth team of his favorite club, Olympique Marseille. But that's as far as it went, and so the self-taught musician turned to the instruments he had collected over the years and began to create a sound entirely his own. He gave this project the name Kid Francescoli - a final reference to soccer as well as the former Olympique soccer star Enzo Francescoli.
Over the years, Kid Francescoli continued to evolve. From 2013, singer Julia Minkin, who comes from New York, complemented the project. That Hocine at the time found in Julia Minkin, so to speak, the "missing link", is evident as soon as you listen to the music: it is this perfectly matching harmony of both voices. He with a very dark timbre, she airy and bright. This contrast creates a tension that carries every song. The influences range from French colleagues like Air and M83 to Lee Hazlewood, Ennio Morricone as well as Nancy Sinatra to Kendrick Lamar or Drake.
For the latest album "Lovers" Mathieu Hocine realized collaborations with various singers and a stronger return to dream pop; after all, as the title suggests, it has become a record about lovers. Subsequently, he composed the soundtrack to the feature film "Azuro" by Matthieu Rozè, which he recorded with a full orchestra. Now his next long-player is due in September. With "You Are Everywhere", the first advance single was already released on March 8.
The extraordinary intensity of the songs, especially in the concert situation, can be experienced in October 2023 at four concerts in Germany in Cologne, Berlin, Hamburg and Munich.