DRIFT - At the Party *Pre-Order

Release Date Friday 6th June 2025
All pre-orders will be dispatched/made ready for collection on that day.

A NEW MUSICAL PROJECT BY RENAUD LETANG starring friends & family:
FEIST - CONNAN MOCKASIN - BENNY SINGS - CHILLY GONZALES - JAMIE
LIDELL - SAUL WILLIAMS - VLADIMIR COSMA - PHILIPPE KATERINE -
INFINITE BISOUS - JERRY PAPER - CHUUWEE - MEL D, PRODUCED BY
RENAUD LETANG + CHILLY GONZALES and RECORDED AT STUDIOS
FERBER.This is the album of a lifetime
Or rather half a life spent, since the age of eighteen, in the shadow of recording
studios. Under the multi-faceted pseudonym of DRIFT, AT THE PARTY is an album by
one of the world's most renowned and sought- after French sound engineers and
producers of the last three decades: Renaud Letang.
ManuChao, Chilly Gonzales, Feist, Mathieu Booagerts, Lianne La Havas, Philippe
Katerine, Saul Williams, Jane Birkin, Seu Jorge, Micky Green, Connan Mockasin and
Amadou & Mariam have regularly called on him, sometimes to the point of not being
able to do without this producer with golden hands and rare hearing.
For years now, Victoires de la Musique award- winner and Grammy Award- nominee
Renaud Letang has been secretly preparing an album project with all his artist friends,
in the basement of Studios Ferber. His Canadian accomplice Chilly Gonzales, with
whom he formed the successful producer tandem VV in the 2000s, has encouraged
him to release his songs, which he composes in the dark between two recording or
mixing sessions. Renaud Letang sees his compositions as "drift music", with a wide
stylistic palette - from sunny disco pop (At the Party, Working on Me) to naive jazz
(Papaya, A Night in Waimea), from futuristic hip hop (Cosmic Drift, That's All) to
dreamlike tracks (Tres Gentiment In Waimea). The word DRIFT, the multi-faceted alias
chosen by Renaud Letang, describes precisely this perpetual movement, which
wonderfully spills over into this collegial record, open to all vocal marriages: Feist,
Chilly Gonzales, Connan Mockasin, Benny Sings, Philippe Katerine, Jamie Lidell, Saul
Williams, Infnite Bisous, Jerry Paper, Chuuwee, Mel D and Vladimir Cosma all feature
in the credits of 'At the Party.
"In the end, I made the record I had in mind, with a level of demand for ofcial groove
and sensitivity." Breathing in Californian music and collective energy for a fantasized
musical comedy, AT THE PARTY is a fascinating musical journey, to be listened to as
much on a sunny day as after dark.
The soundtrack of the summer with the cast of the year.

Tracks: At The Party Feat. Connan Mockasin, Benny Sings, Feist, Philippe
Katerine, Infnite Bisous / Cosmic Drift Feat. Chuuwee, Vladimir Cosma / Tres
Gentiment In Waimea Feat. Philippe Katerine / One By One Feat. Mel D / That's All
Feat. Benny Sings, Chuuwee, Connan Mockasin, Mel D / Papaya / Papaya (Chilly
Gonzales Piano Version) / Working On Me Feat. Feist, Philippe Katerine, Jamie Lidell,
Benny Sings / Puppy Love Feat. Benny Sings / Christmas In Waimea Feat. Infnite
Bisous / Talking To A Wall Feat. Infnite Bisous, Jerry Paper / After The Party Feat.
Connan Mockasin / Vision Feat. Saul Williams / A Night In Waimea Feat. Feist

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