In turn author of confidential books, infiltrated social photographer, hermetic videographer, Jean Motell also develops his musical projects. With “Last Highway” the French artist picks up the thread of black and cinematographic music, which he started with his first single “Ceremony Cassette”.
Intuitive guitarist and endowed with a sense of production, Jean Motell admits to marking with “Last Highway” his desire to install a cinematographic atmosphere in his music. After three raw and draft albums, amalgamation of pieces from live sessions and beats made on his smartphone at the edge of swimming pools, Jean is disciplined and unveils his influences without artifice with “Last Highway”. Beyond the nod to David Lynch, it is on the side of references like Cabaret Voltaire – The Voice of America (an album of which he admits to having been afraid for a long time as a child) and Gary Numan who must be fetched to follow Jean Motell’s musical explorations.
“Last Highway” opens with a voice too often understated in its previous tracks. Between spoken words revenge against streaming and cavernous saturations, layers of voices lead us astray then the ground slips under our feet, in a marked reference to John Carpenter. The title works like a hard to find but straightforward highway to mystery. We understand why “Last Highway” and other of his tracks will appear in the soundtrack of his first feature film, scheduled for summer 2024.
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