☆ A sincere, spellbinding artist, made for the stage, with an atypical voice and personality that touch the heart.
☆ Rock rightly tinged with electro and delicately spiced with blues.
☆ Over 650 concerts around the world and shared the stage with Scorpions, Shaka Ponk, Macy Gray, The Stranglers, Ten Years After, Lucky Peterson, Ana Popovic, No One Is Innocent, Yarol Poupaud, FFF…
☆ 4 albums, 1 EP and a collector’s 45, in collaboration with international artists (Justin Adams, Matt Backer, Axel Bauer, Richard Bourreau, Dom Brown, Pascal Danaé, Peter Deimel, Steven Forward, Hervé Koster, Mike Marsh, Louie Nicastro, Yarol Poupaud, Phil Spalding…).
Powerful, racy, liberating rock that’s good for your mental health and looks this complex world straight in the eye, this album is a real woman’s comeback.
A committed singer-songwriter, Jewly has a mission: to write albums that open up consciences and liberate them with a rock vibe that may be salvific for some, or salutary for others. Rebellion is a powerful concept album, half in French and half in English, tackling subjects such as mental health and societal issues. 10 tracks dealing with 5 themes, each approached from 2 ages and therefore 2 angles: the first: that of youth (tracks in French), the second: that of adults (tracks in English). Carried by a singular sound featuring hypnotic, subtle guitars – with Yarol Poupaud on guest guitar – her rich, percussive compositions set the stage for her feline, unsettling voice to speak to the soul. In a musical universe that echoes PJ Harvey and The Kills, with sounds close to Archive or Depeche Mode, Jewly, strong in her convictions, traces her path with elegance. This 4th album proves to be a concentrate of positive, unifying energy, tailor-made for live performance, the moment of truth when Jewly transcends herself because she has found “her place” there.
Vocals: Jewly · Guitars: Alexandre Maillard / Moon Pilot / Yarol Poupaud (2-8) · Bass: Moon Pilot · Keyboards: Jewly / Moon Pilot · Drums: Vincent Lechevallier · Programming: Moon Pilot · Backing vocals: Jewly / Jim Claden Hoff
Lyrics and music: Jewly · Production: Moon Pilot · Arrangements: Jewly / Moon Pilot · Guitars, bass & drums recorded by Peter Deimel at Black Box studio (F) · Vocals & backing vocals recorded by Moon Pilot at Anima studio (F) · Mixing: Peter Deimel at Black Box studio (F) · Mastering: Mike Marsh at The Exchange (UK) · Engraving: André Perriat
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Jewly is one of those artists who, in a few seconds, transports and inspires you. Distilling a powerful rebel rock with touches of spicy blues and peppered with electro, her music will awaken your senses and stir your soul.
Release a concept album in 2020? You have to dare at a time when CDs are listened to randomly. But the concept imposed itself on Jewly from the very start when writing Toxic, her third album, committed and universal. And what strikes when you discover this album, is the singular rock sound, heady mix of guitars and synthetic vibes and the feline, assured voice that steps in with ease and elegance. If the lyrics are profound, the shape of the songs is catchy, nervous, prepped for live performances, often accompanied by a lingering threat…
Toxic is the path of life of a woman aged 4 to 37 who grows up facing toxic situations or people, which we could all, more or less, have been confronted with! The 10 track titles, when assembled, form a sentence, revealing her release and the album chronologically traces this ode to emancipation.
Toxic, written by Jewly and produced by Moon Pilot, has been recorded and mixed (analog) by Peter Deimel (DE) at the legendary Black Box studio with a remarkable team: Romain Lejeune (F) on guitar, Vincent Lechevallier (F) on drums (ref: Pony Pony Run Run, HollySiz,…), the violinist Richard Bourreau (F), the cellist Jean-Baptiste Noujaim (F) and guests like the guitarists Justin Adams (UK) (ref: Robert Plant, Sinead O’Connor,…), Axel Bauer (F), Pascal Danaë de Delgres (F) and Phil Spalding (UK) on bass (ref: Mick Jagger, Robbie Williams, Mike Oldfield…). Toxic has been mastered by Mike Marsh at The Exchange (UK).
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10 CHARACTERS, 10 CLIPS
The titles of the tracks are ALL Christian names; the first names of real people who emotionally touched Jewly on her very personal and soul searching journey.
More than just another album, “Drugstore” becomes a startling universe into which Jewly plunges us; a video clip has been made for each song, respectively revealing all the different characters who participate in HER very own Drugstore.
KIM, DOC, MELODY, JOY, AMANDA, JOHN DOE, DIANE, PHIL, ALEX, JIM & MEGAN will be forever in her soul and maybe next to you.
Jewly, FR – author, composer, arranger – Lead vocals & backing vocals
Phil Spalding, UK – arranger, producer – Bass & guitars / Ref : Mick Jagger, Robbie Williams, Seal, Elton John, Michel Polnareff, Randy Crawford, Mike Oldfield, …
Matt Backer, USA – arranger, producer – Guitars & harmonica / Ref : Joe Cocker, Paul Young, Robbie Williams, Sinead O’Connor, Alice Cooper, Elton John, …
Hervé Koster, FR – Drums & percussion / Ref : Trust, Cock Robin, Yannick Noah, Louis Bertignac, Johnny Halliday, Axel Bauer, …
Raph Schuler, FR – Drums & percussion / Ref : Frasiak, Norbert Krief, Patrick Rondat, Suzanna Choffel, Jean-Claude Rapin, …
Guests:
Dom Brown, UK – Guitars – Duran Duran guitarist / Ref : Duran Duran, Lionel Richie, Elton John, Rod Stewart, Take That, Christina Aguilera, Eagle Eye Cherry, Justin Timberlake, …
Guido Tomasetto, FR – Guitars
JC Bauer, FR – Bass / Ref : Patrick Rondat, Manu Livertout, Dirk Verbeuren, Joey Tafola, Triple FX-Pascal Vigné, Hassan Hajdi, …
Louie Nicastro, UK – Keyboards & programming
Emmanuel Hoff, FR – Keyboards
Produced by Matt Backer, UK & Phil Spalding, UK
Guitars, bass, keyboards, harmonica, vocals & backing vocals recorded by Louie Nicastro, UK at Charlton Farm Studio / Radstock (UK) / Sound engineer for The Stranglers (studio & live)
Drums & percussion recorded by Steven Forward, UK at Studios Davout / Paris (FR) / Ref : Ray Charles & Dee Dee Bridgewater, Depeche Mode, Stevie Wonder, Paul Mc Cartney, Chris Rea, Jimmy Page, Axel Bauer, Johnny Hallyday… / Assistant Antoine Durand
Mixed & mastered by Louie Nicastro, UK at Charlton Farm Studio / Radstock (UK)
LABEL : ROCK’n’CHAIR / DISTRIBUTION : Rue Stendhal
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Jewly, FR – Lead Vocals, Backing Vocals
Sylvain Troesch, FR – Guitars
Raph Schuler, FR – Drums
Phil Spalding, UK – Bass / Ref : Mick Jagger, Seal, Elton John, Robbie Williams, Randy Crawford, Michel Polnareff, Mike Oldfield…
Hervé Koster, FR – Drums, Percussion, Guitars, Clavinet, Backing Vocals
Michaël Lecoq, FR – Hammond & Keyboards / Ref : Michel Jonasz, Yannick Noah, Biréli Lagrène
Produced & arranged by Hervé Koster, FR / Ref : Trust, Cock Robin, Yannick Noah, Louis Bertignac, Johnny Hallyday…
Bass, drums & guitars recorded by Steve Forward at Studios de la Seine / Paris, Assistant Khoi Huynh
Vocals, backing vocals, percussion, keyboards & noises recorded by Hervé Koster at TwinCity Studios
Mixed by Steve Forward, UK at Studio Human / Paris / Ref : Ray Charles & Dee Dee Bridgewater, Depeche Mode, Stevie Wonder, Paul Mc Cartney, Chris Rea, Jimmy Page, Axel Bauer, Johnny Hallyday…
Mastered by Mike Marsh at The Exchange / London / Ref : Depeche Mode, Chemical Brothers, Jamiroquai, M, Massive Attack, Moby, Morcheeba, Oasis, Phoenix, U2, Zazie…
LABEL : ROCK’n’CHAIR / DISTRIBUTION : Rue Stendhal
