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: “Voix de vocalistes, poètes qui s’unissent, captent les énergies telluriques et cosmiques, ramènent les rêves...

In production: The Promise of Chaos

Our upcoming album, The Promise of Chaos, is in production and will be released later this year. The world moves so swiftly these days that my recent precognitive poetry is already more like biting historical commentary. Michel and I are co-composing with a myriad of instruments and digital tools...

Live in Paris: Song for a Newborn

One of our primary goals for our Jazz from Rant music label has always been to document the music that might otherwise be lost, rare encounters of improvised music and musical meetings that arose out of special circumstances. This new track we are releasing is exactly that, a song...

Black Fungus Redux

Artifical intelligence told me my music is steampunk. Could this robot be right? Considering the myriad of musical influences from my early days, there might be some logic to it. There was punk, with Joe Strummer of the Clash as a major influence on me. I also went to...

Portrait Landscape

New album entitled Portrait Landscape, performed by my group, the Genius Loci Ensemble. If you visit the album on Bandcamp you can read notes on the individual tracks and order a very, very limited edition hard copy compact disc. The title is a play on words, as I enjoy...

Landscape: Under the Surface in Guadeloupe

New song out now! And new video! I travel with a mini studio and so when I tagged along with Michel and one of Alain Bédard’s groups on a tour in Guadeloupe I brought my gear. When the band was out at night I considered the spirit of place...

Portrait: Nineteen

New music out now! When adolescence and menopause meet! And with the creative goal of telling new stories, this is the portrait of the artist as a young man as perceived by myself, his mother. Because women need to sing about their lives at all stages, including moments like...

The Lady of the Lake

Great news! The Lady of the Lake music video will be screening in Finland in September 2024! Like the loons, I am swimming in music we recorded over the past two years and working through mixing and mastering it while life interrupts here and there. I am making progress...

Gingko-infused portraits: new compositions

**Currently in production: Portrait/Landscape, a new music album by Jeannette Lambert’s Genius Loci Ensemble.** When I first heard pansori music I was struck by the raw emotion of the vocals, the intensity of the rhythm and I was determined to learn more. Pansori is traditional Korean folk music based...