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Rone
French electronic music producer Erwan Castex a.k.a. Rone was born in 1980 near Paris. Spotted by the InFiné label, Rone released his debut Bora – EP in 2008, and was followed in 2009 by his acclaimed debut album Spanish Breakfast. His second album Tohu Bohu (2012), composed when living in Berlin, features the international hits Parade and Bye Bye Macadam. Back in Paris after touring the world, Rone composed Creatures (2015), featuring collaborations with The National guitarist Bryce Dessner, French pop icon Étienne Daho, and more.
Early 2017, Rone presented a unique creation at the Philharmonie de Paris where he invited friend artists to join the show: John Stanier (Battles), François Marry (Frànçois & The Atlas Mountains), Alain Damasio and the Vacarme trio. The experience was the spark that started Mirapolis, Rone’s fourth studio album in which his neat production blends in perfectly with guest talents KAZU, Saul Williams, Noga Erez, Baxter Dury, Bryce Dessner and John Stanier.
2020 marks a new turn in the artist’s career, starting off with a ten-day carte blanche creation at Paris’ Théâtre du Châtelet with the Ballet National de Marseille. The narrative of the show tackles global issues such as global warming and collapse were the main inspiration for Rone’s fifth album Room with a View, an opus in which he felt the need to connect with his early work of purely instrumental electronic music. The eponymous stage production, co-written with the collective (LA)HORDE and performed by the Ballet national de Marseille, was staged more than 50 times across New York, Kyoto, Paris, and Venice. More recently, Rone also collaborated with choreographer Angelin Preljocaj as part of the Osaka 2025 World Expo.
His film scores have been awarded a César and a Cannes Soundtrack Award, the result of collaborations with directors such as Jacques Audiard, Xavier Giannoli, Frédéric Farrucci, and Spike Jonze. The musician, who graduated in cinema from the Université Sorbonne Nouvelle, has, in short, never lost his love for the seventh art.
His approach to symphonic orchestration alongside arranger Romain Allender, notably with the Orchestre National de Lyon and the London Contemporary Orchestra, gave rise to the album and concert tour L(oo)ping.
Rone’s most recent album, Megaptera, released on 12/05, was composed at sea during a scientific expedition aimed at understanding the unusual reactions his music appeared to provoke in dolphins and whales. The project was inspired by a series of viral videos showing sailors playing Rone’s music in open waters, with cetaceans seemingly drawn toward the sound. The album is accompanied by the documentary film The Whale and the Musician, directed by Valentin Paoli, which chronicles the creation of the record within this singular context.
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Management – didier@dda-artistmanagement.com
