Biography
There are two artists named John French. One was a drummer who played with Captain Beefheart and the other is a singer/songwriter. This bio features the singer/songwriter.
As his music so closely parallels, John’s movement toward this current point in his life has also been a building dynamic. In his earlier days of middle school and high school, his music centered around a rock and roll sound which steadily shifted into an eclectic mix of everything from eclectic genres to folk music. The promotion of this new turn in sound began when John started taking piano lessons sophomore year of high school. Shortly after this, Josh Deramus entered the picture along with the rest of their first band, Pilot Coat. They were a pop-rock, piano driven group, but as John matured, so did the depth of musicality and lyrical content. By early college John made his way into the circle of several respectable, knowledgeable musicians in the Athens music scene, soaking up every bit of wisdom and creative inspiration he could. With new eyes of what music meant to John, he began to collect acoustic songs he had been writing over the past three years in the summer of 2009. They didn’t necessarily fit in the genre of what Pilot Coat had previously produced, so, after pouring over and refining them for several months, Josh, John, Rebecca and a few other close friends began recording “On the Face of It”. Because he had previously recorded two albums on his own (one demo project and an EP for Pilot Coat), this experience and general lack of resources lead to John taking total creative control of the project. Taking his time on it to fully record, produce, edit, and release it, he finished what is presently his most proud accomplishment as an artist in April of 2010 – it was released in May, exploding in popularity amongst friends, the Athens music scene, and elsewhere through whatever connections presented themselves. Shortly after playing several solo shows, it was evident that, to capture the full aesthetic of the record in a live performance, a full band would be needed. Shortly thereafter, the Bastilles were formed. The Bastilles now accompany John for live performances and have already begun work on new material.
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