About me

Hey,

I'm a musician living in Paris, France. I play mostly guitar, but I also play keyboards and sing. I have set up this page to list the musical projects I have been involved in over the years, in France, in the United States, and in Italy.

To contact me: dalbu@yahoo.fr

Here is the list of projects:
- PlasticPulses
- Anima elettrica
- Norah
- Un été sans lumière
- The effect
- Rosemary
- Cvantez
- Bilbao
- Patapop
- Das Pixel
- Big band de la Cité Internationale Universitaire de Paris

About my musical tastes, here is what si spinning on my phone, right now: Sault, Laura Marling, Big Thief, Lomelda, U.S. Girls, Aldous Harding, Cate Le Bon, Parquet Courts, Courtney Barnett, Low, Son Lux, James Blake, Songs: Ohia, Broken bells, Bonnie Prince Billy, Arcade Fire, Au revoir Simone, Beach House, Belle and Sebastian, Bill Frisell, Blonde Redhead, Calexico, Camera Obscura, Elliot Smith, Elysian Fields, Fleet foxes, Grizzly Bear, MGMT, My bloody Valentine,  the National, Neil Young, Nick Drake, PJ Harvey, Portishead, Portugal.The man, Pulp, Ra ra riot, the Shins, the Smiths, Soft Machine, Stereolab, Sufjan Stevens, Under Byen, Vampire week end, the Vaselines, the Walkmen, Wilco, Wild beasts, Wold Parade, Yeasayer, Yo la tengo... I guess you can call it indie pop!
But I also have have a sweet spot for 60's soul and RnB, old country, delta blues, rockabilly, jazz...

I have a few guitars: ES135, telecaster, stratocaster, Sheraton. I play on a Laney Lionheart, which is an awesome amp (I used to play on a Blues Jr, but I sold it when I moved back from the US). Plus a few pedals and microphones. 

Plastic Pulses

Plastic pulses is my current project with Paula (vocals), Rémi (keyboards), Fabrice (bass), and Sophie (Drums). We are currently recording a new demo. In the meantime here are a few recordings made during practice.
 Tom etc. (Plastic pulses)

 It grew evil (Plastic pulses)

 And then, we fell (Plastic pulses)

 Lullaby (Plastic pulses)

Anima elettrica

Anima elettrica was a project I had in Venice, Italy. With Beso, my Brazilian punk-poet of a friend on acoustic guitar and vocals, and Dario, my Sicilian friend who was playing the keyboards when he was not designing dream yachts, and Giovana on the background vocals.



 In movement (Anima Elettrica)

Dark river (Anima Elettrica)

Weekend kisses (Anima Elettrica)
Natasha (Anima Elettrica)

Norah

Norah is two-piece band made of my friend Chris on the drums and on the guitar, and me and the guitar, keyboards and vocals. We made really cool music, soon to be mixed!

We called the band Norah, because our music used to scare the hell out of the cat of the house we were playing in. Her name is Norah, and this our way to apologize!

Music to come shortly!!

Paola by Guillaume Lemaitre Fading by Guillaume Lemaitre

Un Été Sans Lumière

My friend Jason and I composed and recorded a few songs during the summer of 2010, under the moniker Un Été Sans Lumière (a summer without light, that's to pay a tribute Arcade Fire!)
http://www.myspace.com/unetesanslumiere


















Cheapest rooms and beds (Un été sans lumière)

Nowhere highway (Un été sans lumière)

The (Patagonia picnic table) effect

The Effect was an awesome band in which I played in Pittsburgh between 2009 and 2010. I played the guitar and and a few background vocals. We played our own compositions and played a few gigs in western Pennsylvania. 

We recorded a 4-song demo during the 2010 spring, in the basement of an house in a Pittsburgh's suburb.

Some music here:

http://www.myspace.com/foolishvagabonds

Foolish vagabonds (The effect)

Let Hell know (The effect)


Rhymes and treasons (The effect)

Fire in a vacuum (The effect)

Rosemary

Rosemary

I played with Rosemary in Paris between 2007 and 2009. Rosemary is a band lead by Carol, an awesome singer/guitarist. I had a great time with her and the other guys!  Piéric on the bass, and Alexia on the drums! I played lead guitar and keyboards. We did several times the small venues circuit in Paris! We also recorded a 4-track demo that you can hear on myspace (or below):
http://www.myspace.com/1rosemary

Rosemary now active in Marseille. Carol is looking for new musicians!

Les coups tordus (Rosemary)

Cette étoile (Rosemary)

Du vent poussiéreux (Rosemary)

http://www.myspace.com/1rosemary

Cvantez

Cvantez is an awesome band which I played a few gigs with in 2008. At the time they were playing a few shows with instrumental versions of their songs. I played guitar and a few hand percussions. Cvantez has released two albums, which have received very good reviews. They're still playing in Paris. 

http://www.myspace.com/cvantezmusic

Bilbao

Bilbao (form Kurt Weil's Bilbao's song) is a sort of storage space where I put some ideas of songs. Some of these songs were used in Norah

http://www.myspace.com/bilbaosong

Cachée (Bilbao)

Ne t'en fais pas Paola (Bilbao)

Patapop

Patapop was an electrop project that my old friend Geoffroy and I pursued around 2006/2007 in Paris. I played guitars and sung a few background vocals. Geoffroy sang, played the other guitars, and programmed the bass, drum, and synth loops. We both composed and wrote these songs ("Bring back the mullet" was written by my friend Marie-Hélène).

Bring back the mullet (Patapop)

My top 8 friends (Patapop)

Some more songs are available on this good old myspace.

http://www.myspace.com/patapop/