After successfully completing an 11 date North American Tour, Wax Tailor is back with a new single. This Train is perhaps the most beloved track of Wax Tailor’s new album In The Mood For Life. A genre blending masterpiece, the track brings together the talents of Rapper Voice and Roots singer Ali Harter.
The Penelope[s] -Sabotage (Beastie Boys cover)
Off their debut US album Priceless Concrete Echoes comes the single Sabotage from the pEneLOpe[s], a high energy cover of the classic Beastie Boys song complete with it’s own homage of the infamous Spike Jonze video.
Each Wax Tailor album is a human adventure. And because JC Le Saoult is a self managed artist who commited to releasing records independently 5 years ago, the process of recording all the instruments, vocalists, rappers and achieving a coherent whole is a daunting task. Director Pierre Jampy followed Wax Tailor around during the making of this new album, and the result is this 18 minute featurette that we hope you will enjoy.
Well the French are finally back from their long summer hollidays – lucky bastards – and so a few things are moving forward now for me. I was starting to worry !
Here’s one of the first things to look forward to: Teenage Bad Girls, on Citizen Records. They just did the ad for the reedition [...]
20Syl is the MC / Producer from a French band I love called Hocus Pocus. This is a video documenting how he works.
This video is directed by Clem of Tenas. Each panel was hand-drawn. The original song is from the “Hope & Sorrow” album.
Wax Tailor aka JC Le Saout made this video himself. He is one of the graffitti artists featured here. The track features The Others and appears on the Wax Tailor “Tales Of The Forgotten Melodies” album.
Video for “To Dry Up (feat. Charlotte Savary)” from Wax Tailor, directed by Laurent King and starring Clément Sibony and Clémentine Poidatz. Original song from the album “Hope & Sorrow“.
Click on the image to launch the trailer for Wax Tailor‘s second album “Hope & Sorrow” featuring Sharon Jones, Ursula Rucker, A State of Mind and many more. During the recording of the album, we tried to gather video footage of each artist performing on the album, and then JC put it together at home.
Video for “Our Dance (feat. Charlotte Savary)“, directed by Laurent King. The original song is from the Wax Tailor album “Tales of The Forgotten Melodies“. Among the people sitting in the restaurant is Laurent Collat, who mixed the album and whom I knew from his band “Elegia“. You can also catch a glimpse of Wax [...]