Pierre Welsh & The Oaks

Explore, research. Going on a journey, far away. Coming back with pockets full of fragments of reality soon transformed into sharp songs, the songwriter Pierre Welsh has been doing this all his life. The man is enigmatic, discreet, but he traces a straight course like the mast of a boat. The expedition of the moment is called OAKS: it's a rock band, powerful, sovereign, but more than that, an artistic collective, where each one creates intuitively, during live sessions of great freedom, but where listening to the other marks the time and the moment. A child of rock music since the 90's with the bands Chelsea and Melville, Welsh has crossed the decades with writing projects adopting sometimes the musicality of the English language, sometimes the sharpness of the French, only showing up on stage sporadically like at the Maroquinerie or La Boule Noire. Haunted by a certain idea of beauty, nourished by Russian authors as well as American poetry, Pierre Welsh wields the dark and the sword; he chooses to be there, intensely, and then absent the next moment, in the manner of a Salinger or a Terence Malick... Was it the need for freedom that drove the unclassifiable songwriter to found December Square, a "music house" and creative space? OAKS has already produced two studio albums and a live EP, giving rise to reviews referring to the greatest: "The best that France has produced in the genre and beyond. Between two touches of Bashung, the references are numerous and skilful''... ROLLING STONE or ''Elegance pop in the conquistador way''. Christian Eudeline.