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Antonin is a singer-songwriter who cultivates the art of haunting melodies and emotion held just beneath the surface. His songs are at once limpid and charged with intensity, tracing a singular musical line somewhere between poetic pop and suspended sensuality. A soft voice, stripped-back lyrics and an instinct for simple, lasting choruses.

Antonin first made his name with Hangar, a rock band born in the Bassin d'Arcachon in 2007. Two albums on Polydor and a string of shows later - including opening slots for -M- on his Zénith tour.

A few years later, he joined Papooz - one of the leading acts on the French pop scene - as bassist, and has since collaborated alongside Polo & Pan.

With his debut solo album "En Silence", Antonin laid the foundations of a world running against the grain: an ode to stillness and the sea, praised for its sincerity, that took him on the road with Oracle Sisters, Kings of Convenience and Allah-Las.

Antonin opens a new chapter with his second album "Bleus". A title that goes straight to the point: a colour, a state. An elegant, intimate city blues - somewhere between twilight pop and weightless chanson. Acoustic and electric guitars at the core, slide guitar deepening the melancholy where it needs to, and here and there, a faint taste of jazz. Produced and arranged by Adrien Durand at Studio Atlas, with Cuban percussionist Inor Sotolongo (Grammy Nominated 2016) and friends Armand Penicaut and Victoria Lafaurie from the Papooz.

Bleu opens the record on a sustained melancholy. J'sais pas dire non is a song about the ambivalence of a relationship, the attraction and the power play. Palme d'or stages love as a role to be performed.