With almost 30 years of releases under her belt, French DJ, producer and label owner Jennifer Cardini has accrued a reputation for highlighting diverse sounds that stretch across the musical spectrum. She teams up with acclaimed French visual artist and filmmaker Lou Fauroux to launch Færies Records, a multidisciplinary platform that challenges the scene’s established norms, floating freely across genre boundaries and prioritizing art, experimentation and community.
Faeries emerged from Fauroux and Cardini’s passionate interest in electronic music in all its forms. As motivated by experimental avant-garde sounds and dreamy, queer ambient music as they are by pop, R&B and club music, they wondered if there could be a space to combine this borderless sonic aesthetic with other art forms. All too often, artists are isolated and confined to separate boxes, so Færies, Fauroux and Cardini seek to break down these barriers, bringing in visual artists, filmmakers, video game designers and performers to completely reshape how we think about music.
Færies Records aims to create a unique space for emerging artists to explore the possibilities of their craft, giving special attention to minority and queer artists with limited opportunities. These creators have been discovered online or within the wider community, and Færies aims to open them up to collaboration that may have been otherwise difficult, pushing eclecticism and personality above industry expectations. Fittingly, Færies Records was launched in May at Paris’s esteemed Palais de Tokyo, with sets from Fauroux and Cardini alongside Frenchcore innovator Inès Cherifi, pop futurist syyler (aka Lësterr) and raï poet CHOUF.
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The label’s first release is an audio-visual single with music from Berlin-based Brit Angel Rider and a video from Fauroux herself. Angel Rider’s ‘when ur gone’ is a dizzy, helium-voiced ode to death and invisibility that’s both joyful and theatrical, pulling as much from Charli XCX as it does 100 gecs and A.G. Cook. And for the visuals, Fauroux cast her mind back to the early days of the internet, when freedom and creativity reigned supreme and blogs and message boards were packed with freewheeling clips and artistic interpretations.
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