For his fourth album, ‘Panache’, KACIMI has teamed up with Geneva-based Augustin
von Arx and Léonard Persoz (musicians with Magic&Naked and Le Roi Angus). The
album features dreamy synths, mellow bass and smooth production. Accustomed to
guitars and garage pop (The Rebels of Tijuana), KACIMI breaks with his usual habits
by composing most of the tracks for this album on piano, delicately dressed by
Augustin von Arx and Léonard Persoz, who produce the entire album. These 9 tracks
take us into a shimmering world of electronica and seventies pop. Set to absurd yet
existential poems by Romano Bianchi, his pop partner, Kacimi lets himself drift off
into his reveries and narrations with a clear, precise voice. Recorded in the Geneva
countryside in the midst of a bamboo garden and an invigorating vegetable patch,
‘Panache’ stands out in KACIMI’s discography as a real letting go, where pleasure was
the central element in the creative process.
After working with a number of groups over the last twenty years, playing with a
variety of records, groups and concerts (The Rebels of Tijuana, Le Roi Angus, etc.),
KACIMI released his first solo album « Cookies & Motoriders » in 2015, followed by
« Gyrophare » in 2020 and « Couronne d’Ephémères » in 2023. Three critically acclaimed
albums (Rock & Folk, Rolling Stone, Les Inrockuptibles, Shindig, RTS, FIP, France
Inter…). These albums are interspersed with various singles (« Décroche », « Il fait si
chaud ce soir », « Les Rois »…) and numerous collaborations since 2020 (Lionel Limiñana,
Nick Wheeldon, Alexis Fugain, Blot, L’Eclair, Joël Virgel, Audrey K….). KACIMI’s music
plunges us, in a contemporary and modern interpretation, into the heart of French
sixties pop, at once cinematic, yéyé, beat and poetic, where psychedelic rhythm n’blues
and garage rock n’roll mingle with love ballads suspended in time.
In recent years, KACIMI has written music for a number of series, adverts and events
(Emily in Paris, You’re The Worst, Orangina, Cannes Film Festival, etc.). He runs the
Le Pop Club Records label, with which he has released almost 80 titles (Le
Superhomard, Nick Wheeldon, Wendy Martinez, etc.) and in recent years has
specialised in French film music, with vinyl reissues of « Coup de Tête », « Les Tontons
Flingueurs », « Un Singe en Hiver » and « Le Magnifique ».