La Touche Franche: Agathe Max album release party

LA TOUCHE FRANCHE
25th April 2025
is organised by As it hears, a London based collective gathering weird music lovers.
This is a unique event to honour Agathe Max, French artist and composer. Agathe will launch her new release La Touche Franche, which will also celebrate her 40th anniversary of playing the violin.
For this special milestone in her career, Agathe will share the stage with friends, la crème de la crème of the French experimental music scene.
Afterparty at the bar with DJ Cornacchia and Velouria.
AGATHE MAX
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French born, London based Agathe Max, violin and viola player, works on projects which include electroacoustic compositions, soundtrack for documentaries, animated movies, short movies. Agathe is a ferocious and prolific contributor in the London music scene. She plays in Abstract/Concrete, Melos Kalpa, UKAEA, These Towns. She is well known for her participation in record sessions for renowned artists such as Laetitia Sadier, Tomaga, Vanishing Twin, Clémentine March, Yama Warashi.

KOSMOSUNA
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Fantasy pop French duo, as if Depeche Mode were from Lille.
Alexis & Lucien Daumerie sculpt performances that encompass the audience with sound, visuals and raw emotion.

LOUPS DE VIRGINIE
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New solo project by Massicot’s drummer. LDV sings, manipulates samples and blows into flutes.
Based in Lyon, she also played in the Nist-Nah ensemble for a few years.
HARPIE
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Electroacoustic Harp from St Etienne, France.
On a liquid and dreamlike landscape, she stretches her strings to reveal their sedative and hypnotic powers.
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LA TOUCHE FRANCHE
La Touche Franche is Agathe Max’s 10th Opus to be released in April 2025.
As a child, she fell in love with the soaring sound of the violin and she hasn’t forgotten this. Agathe and her wooden acolyte have been hanging out for a while and she has experimented with it in many different ways: from gigs to festivals, contributions to collaborations, the stage, the videos, the arts, all the arts…Their great epic is all digested to be told better. La Touche Franche is sober, epidermal but with character. It depicts landscapes of an enchanting forest, an underwater ball, the sky and its stars. It carries us from near to distant horizons.
For this album, Max mixed samples from sound libraries on vinyl with her own personal collection of recorded sounds, a palette of percussion, wildlife, outdoor elements, noises from the city. The collage of all these sound textures creates rhythm and loops. It’s got temperament and invites us to stamp our feet and head-bang with Max’s pagan London friends. More than ever, Agathe is true to her DIY ethics and affirms “it’s time to create together with a sense of awareness”. Therefore she invited a few collaborators to add different dynamics and colours to this self-produced anniversary album.
Enough said, listen to it and join the mermaids, siege the dance floor or get on a plane.
La Touche Franche will be available digitally and as a silkscreen print by the artist Amélie Grosselin .
AS IT HEARS RECORDS !
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