THIS IS THE KIT - GABRIELLE VERLEYEN - RAPHAËL S'AMÉLIORE

THIS IS THE KIT

Kate Stables, aka This is The Kit, is without doubt one of the most interesting indie folk artists of recent years. Born in Winchester and now based in Paris, Kate Stables immersed herself in music from an early age, learning trumpet and guitar. With ethereal sounds, where brass and synths meet guitars and banjos, her graceful compositions are, live, a moment where time stands still.

With six albums to their name, the band made a name for themselves on the indie folk scene with the acclaimed "Bashed Out" (2015), and gained international recognition with "Moonshine Freeze" (2017), "Off Off On" (2020) and most recently "Careful of Your Keepers" (2023), marking the artistic maturity of Kate Stables and her troupe.

GABRIELLE VERLEYEN

With her strong, velvety voice, Gabrielle Verleyen reconciles indie-folk and French lyric pop in a sonic universe where melancholy and serenity rub shoulders to create an intimate, luminous landscape. This former shy girl, whose singing didn't dare go beyond the reassuring walls of her family home, discovered her voice as a passport at the ripe old age of 20. With a degree in Roman Languages and Literature in her pocket, she escaped to Rotterdam to join a world music conservatory. She went on to create her own universe, made up of personal experiences and influences (pop-folk, indie rock and Indian music).

In 2018, she headed back to Brussels, with a few compositions in her pocket and a lot of sadness linked to this departure. It was on this nostalgic soil that she wrote most of the songs on her first EP, "Le lac", released at the end of 2021, in which we discover an intimate and sincere cartography.Today she is preparing her first album, "Le Long de la Lys". This opus retraces the author's intimate and geographical journey to free herself from a toxic relationship and the gendered conditioning in which she grew up. With this collection, the singer's resolutely pop-folk universe is affirmed and purified, giving way to uncompromising songs where the voice blossoms, emancipates and multiplies.