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Antonin

Nomadic both in France and beyond, a dandy of the open roads, Antonin carries his poetically slender silhouette on the beaches of Cap-Ferret, his hometown in southwest France. With his long Cossack-like hair and the profile of a sharp-tempered night bird, he is a "drunken sailor" by birth, having grown up in a wooden cabin nestled in the sand amidst pine trees. His only masters are time, the ocean, and the six strings of his acoustic guitar. His music reflects him: soaked in sunlight, free as the air, and as essential as water.

From catchy pop refrains to island-infused saudades, Antonin's chameleon-like talent flows between Nino Ferrer, Air, and Moustaki, effortlessly embodying Italian or Israeli vibes when the wine or ambiance calls for it. Born in solitude – the kind every seasoned reveler feels in the midst of the crowd – or in sharing, his songs have the brilliance of raw diamonds, the stripped-down beauty, almost naive, yet infinitely touching with unexpectedly revealed confessions.

In a world saturated with sound, the singer-songwriter's debut album "En Silence" is an ode to tranquility and the sea. This album guided our bard on a tour along the roads of France, opening for Oracle Sisters and Kings Of Convenience, as well as joining the European tour of Allah-Las. "En Silence", the title of the album and the name of his beloved grandmother's boat, speaks to this sculptor of intensities, who growing up far from CD players and other modern sound sources, loves nothing more than silence to evoke emotion.