Friday Night Inn, experimental trap music label
Introducing Friday Night Inn, the new music label created by van garden and beamer!, aka JJ and Theo Lambert. Discover their many releases and network of talented artists and producers here. Some press quotes:
“poétiques et étranges, sombres et mousseux” LA GAZETTE BLEUE
“modulations plus recherchées, du rythme contrôlé de leur scansion, de la charge des lettres, mots et phrases aux césures calculées” LA GAZETTE BLEUE
“comme une lecture accompagnée époque ‘Beat Generation’”LA GAZETTE BLEUE
“decisive, comping rhythms, painting thick lines around Michel Lambert’s trembling snare patterns” THE WHOLENOTE
“a tongue so precise it proves that words can briefly take back the mantle from pictures” THE WHOLENOTE
“Dans une approche non éloignée de ce que proposer Mike Ladd ou Edash Quata, les deux jeunes gens transforment totalement le climat qui se teinte de plus en plus de nuit” CITIZEN JAZZ
“gamelans and spoken word rail against the immoral incidents” THE WHOLENOTE
“Voix de vocalistes, poètes qui s’unissent, captent les énergies telluriques et cosmiques, ramènent les rêves dans le réel pour transformer le chagrin en beauté” LA GAZETTE BLEUE
van garden and beamer! grew up in a household where creativity is at the forefront, and thus began composing and recording at an early age, producing several unpublished albums while they were in primary school. They draw their inspiration from underground trap and free jazz. Ever prolific, they have several recordings slated for release in the coming year. They appeared on Michel’s latest Ars Transmutatoria recordings in Helsinki and Rome, and Jeannette’s Opera of the Unspoken and Portrait Landscape both as vocalists and lyricists.
van garden is currently pursuing his Master’s degree in Sound Art at the Universitat de Barcelona in Spain. He has completed his Psychology/ East Asian studies undergraduate degree from Mcgill University including studies at Yonsei University in Seoul, South Korea.
In addition to producing music, beamer! is a freelance illustrator (see beam.illustrator on Instagram) and has created album art for a large range of artists, primarily rap and jazz musicians, and clothing brands as well as creating live drawing multimedia performances for concerts as well as creating animated music videos that have been featured at a number of film festivals. He’s majors in studio art at Concordia University and will have an large collaborative exhibition this summer. You can see his visual art on his website, beamgallery.ca
