JULIEN DAÏAN
Genres: Nu Jazz, RnB • France

Loose-cannon French composer, producer, saxophonist, label maverick, festival instigator and haphazard Jazz aesthete Julien Daian, is always in step, in tune with the moment, yet tirelessly, recklessly cutting his way ahead. Since the turn of the millennium, he’s honed his talents on whatever has passed, and drew deep on each genre and influence he touched. Straight out of nowhere, in 2005 he formed the Julien Daian Quintet (JDQ), and his mastery of turbulence created French Paradox and Behind the Reef, two ground-breaking albums of Jazz themes suffused with the late night swagger of New York Hip Hop, teased with electronic beats, primordial rhythms and the stateless ethnic vibrations of musicians seeking always elsewhere for the roots of their own sound. All in beautiful collision with the chemical/organic/good times influences of experience. Turning corners no-one knew existed, pushing boundaries not often tested and becoming a radical agitator in the French Jazz scene read more...