Valerie Renay

“Your Own Shadow” out all digital platforms

http://valerierenay.bandcamp.com/album/your-own-shadow

All songs written by Valerie Renay
“Speed Of Blue” (lyrics by Ian Pickering of Sneaker Pimps)
Co-produced by Alexander Paulick-Thiel (Kreidler)

Music for fast moving clouds

Ethereal Electro Visceral Melodic
Berlin-based French Caribbean performer, painter and electronic pop chanteuse
Valerie Renay (one half of Noblesse Oblige) presents her first solo album Your Own Shadow, co-produced by Alexander Paulick-Thiel (Kreidler): Empowering and ethereal songs that exude dreamy, dark electronic scents with a visceral twist.

After initial help from producer Moses Schneider and Einstürzende Neubauten’s engineer Boris Wilsdorf, Valerie was set on a path where her sound could continue to develop organically, as she travelled solo, testing new material in front of international audiences (Live appearances in Germany, Poland, South Africa, Italy).
The stage show is raw and sensual, with Valerie delivering a dramatic and emotionally charged vocal performance. Poignant stories are delivered in English and French over layers of synths, guitar, and hypnotic bass lines, bouncing off bewitching tribal beats. Brutal and soulful at once, each concert can only be described as a ritualistic experience oozing with punk attitude.Somewhere between two colliding worlds, this album was conceived at a moment of deep transition. The radical transformation Valerie experienced triggered the making of an opus full of contrasts.

Some of the songs like Darkest Lake suggest deep vulnerability, others like Kick Again, a kind of confidence bordering on brashness. As a creature of extremes, these are all parts of Valerie’s journey. She explains how those pulsations are exacerbated when in creative mode, pulling her from ecstasy to complete gloom. From the exhilaration of Speed Of Blue (lyrics by Ian Pickering) to the deep sadness of Hollow, she takes us through the whole spectrum of human emotions.

Valerie’s music places less emphasis on structure, technical knowledge and production and more on raw emotional content. The songs are quite bare and simple compared to the work she did with Noblesse Oblige, straighter to the point and far more direct.

The result of Valerie’s solitary journey is Your Own Shadow, a collection of haunting melodies coloured with delicate poetry. A series of soundscapes that invite you to tread the world's darker paths and roughest edges, while still being lifted by Valerie's love for ecstatic electronics and harmonic tones.

Watch the video of "Sailor" directed by Sebastian Lee Philipp:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hCEVhGhGmyE

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