User:Moogle/MeeK

From the google translation of Meek

MeeK, real name Stéphane-Franck Pascal, is a Franco-British singer-songwriter and producer born February 16 1979 in Montmorency, France. His stage name (always with uppercase M and K) is an indirect tribute to the English pop producer Joe Meek.

MeeK is an "independent" or Indie artist, not signed with a major record label but with several small production and independent distribution companies. However, his first album in 2002 became a "cult" hit with a strong presence on the Internet, forming a faithful group of followers that increase with each album. MeeK has been a part of the French indie music scene since 1996, a flourishing cultural movement that uses the web as the major media exposure outside of concerts. He is part of the first generation of French artists to use the Internet as a tool for marketing and publicizing his music, having begun in 1999, well before social networks MySpace and Facebook.

MeeK is also a multi-instrumentalist, having taught himself to play the guitar, piano, keyboard, drums, and bass. Generally, he plays all the instruments on his recordings (using the process of multitrack recording) as well as doing all vocal harmony by layering over itself.

After living in London forming part of the acoustic-rock band Tin Can Heart, MeeK's first album, Psycho, was released in 2002, sparking some interest among French indie contemporary music. The artist Calogero Interpreters invited him to the sing an acoustic version of Psycho in one of the first issues of music website at the time of Cafe Live, produced by Universal Music and NRJ , and presented by Manu Payet. The album is also supported by the FNAC, which includes giving the title song to the album in one of his compilations "Indétendances. In March 2003, MeeK was also invited by the Fnac to give a series of acoustic shows in the forums of the network Fnac Paris region . Somewhat unusual for an independent artist, the album was also released in a deluxe versiondigipack in Japan on the label MINFI Records , with all lyrics translated into Japanese and a blurb from Yasuharu Konishi , leadeur the Japanese pop group worship Pizzicato Five , which compares the other to Paul McCartney . Since all albums Meek out to Japan on the same label.

The same year he recorded the album " Sleeping with Big Ben "in which he took 14 tracks of Beatles. This disc-shaped leaves that do not recognize Japan.

In 2004her second album of original songs, " Margaret and her jewelry, which can be defined as a concept album . Unlike the first album that Meek had recorded entirely alone, this second album was produced with the assistance of several other musicians. The album received excellent reviews in the section "Made in France" the monthly Music Rock and Folk.

He also translated and annotated English editions in 2004 Flammarion the only official autobiography of Paul McCartney, written in collaboration with his old friend Barry Miles, Many Years From Now in French became "The Beatles and the Sixties me.

After an absence of two years and serious health concerns, Meek began in April 2007with a French producer Maxime Monégier of Rowan and was with him and embarked on a new team record a third album original songs that was released in December 2008on the new label Raindrop, and entitled " Emergency Exit ". For the first time, Meek was surrounded by a dozen musicians and no machine, synthesizer or sampler was used during the recordings that have lasted over 10 months. A real string orchestra appears on several tracks, and a set ofbagpipes Celtic for the title "I love you immediately." Among the musicians who collaborated on the album are Cyril Morana, Peter Cohen, the artist electro -rock Mewsil and Joseph Chedid.

The album opens with the single "Six Feet Under", a tribute to the American series of the same name and song that is also part of the soundtrack of an indie American director Kevan Michaels called The King Of The City. "Six Feet Under" has also been a stylish video directed by Emmanuel Bajolle and shot in April in Kiron Studios of Paris to be broadcast on French music.

On September 12, 2008, Meek and his new band has performed exceptionally in the Parisian theater Jamel Debbouze the Comedy Club, the first date in a series of concerts to promote the new album Emergency Exit with an evening at the Theatre Raspail. In February 2009 her song "Six Feet Under" is the first independent production to get into the music programming from Radio Suisse Romande (Swiss state radio), titles between Christophe Maé, Francis Cabrel and Carla Bruni. The song is also the 3rd highest rotation on the Parisian station Radio Nova for the period from December to March 2009.

Meek and his group were again produced in June 2009 again in the theater Jamel Debbouze.