Rebel schoolkids

Quick fan art of French musician Shadi, with their bass player Eva Hägen !

All Stories Told

Illustration for the new music video of my band Unspkble, directed by Élise Meunier.



I am so, so glad and grateful to have been able to work with Élise on this very cool project. Go watch it if you haven't already!

Mordorfest 2023 Poster

I had the honor and the pleasure of making the official poster for @mordor.fest.france 2023, which is an amazing indie festival where I'm also lucky enough to perform this summer 🥰 As in previous years, the line-up is diverse and qualitative (except for me! lol) and I can't wait to recharge my batteries in this magical place! Lozère wins 💜

Below, you can see details in a little higher definition! My concept for the poster was: a matriarchal tribe that rules the Déroc waterfall and its surtoundings (the actual location where the festival takes place)-- an opportunity to draw badass women, using fantasy and rock imagery, what more could you ask for? 😺
Ps. The colors of the protagonist on the left are inspired by those of the local flag of Lozère: blue, red and yellow!

Woke n' whole

New self-portrait, based on my current "solo" stage persona! 😈🔥 New concert dates to be announced soon!! ✨

Solo concerts!

In parallel of my band activities with Unspkble and more recently Pipi Tornado, I decided to launch my own live musical show, under my own moniker: Gom Pilote.

While I am still working on my first single, I have a pretty little collection of new songs that are ready to be played live, alongside songs from other projects (Between The Zones and my recent D&D / The Argent Agent album) and a few covers, so I'm going to start performing them! Musically, it's in line with all the stuff I've been doing for years, a fluid mix of different genres: post-punk, metal, industrial, goth, synthwave, shoegaze, serving a pop songwriting. Except that this time I am not trying to "please" a certain band aesthetic, so it's going to be pretty uninhibited!

A few shows are booked already-- Come and have fun with me!

Caught in the middle

It's Friday I'm in... the mood for making a sketchless drawing of Hayley Williams in a cool outfit from the "After Laughter" era, while my computer renders some audio clips. Enjoy and have a nice weekend 😌✨

My band

And now for something different: this is my band Unspkble! Please follow us here and there, or check out our website 🖤
We play post-punk / cold wave / goth rock like it was still 1985, with a bit more overdrive and delay. And we'll be touring all around France in June and beyond. We'd be delighted to have you ✨

Witch Fever

Two years ago I discovered this band with the song "Toothless", that instantly got me on fire! Earlier this month, they played in Nîmes so we went to see them-- and it was fucking awesome. I've been listening to their songs on repeat since then, and felt a need to draw something that would be reminiscent of this energy I felt during their show... a mix of excitement, danger, and well, bewitching? lol
Anyways here's my humble-but-flammable tribute to them! 🔥🤘




Variants and details:

Spectral Foxy

I got a custom-made guitar by Atelier Bontemps, partially designed by me! 🔥



Last year, I realized that in spite of my years of writing/recording music and playing in bands, I didn't have any really good quality instrument. Not that owning some was mandatory to make music, of course, but I thought that maybe it was time to invest in one.
I discovered the work of Aurélien Bontemps via my good friend Jizuss, and decided to visit his workshop. After testing out a few Foxy models, and being totally convinced of their qualities, I started thinking about what I could ask for, and make a little photo mockup, based on one of the existing models... And Aurélien agreed to make it!
The idea was to have a straightforward and built-for-rock high quality guitar, that could be similar to the old Fender Esquire or Gibson's Melody Maker, with minimum frills.
Last weekend, I finally got my hands on this guitar and it's hard for me to describe how good it feels to play on it-- it goes even beyond my expectations. I've been a fan of single-pickup guitars for years, so finally owning one, with my own specifications, is like a child dream coming true, really. It even has my Soul-Reaver-inspired G spiral on the twelveth fret!! Can't wait to play Unspkble concerts with it!

It goes without saying that I warmly recommend that you contact Aurélien for any custom guitar/bass project, or any lutherie operation in the Montpellier area! His work is impeccable and he is a super-cool and passionate professional! 😄

We named that baby the "Spectral Foxy" 👻 Here are some of its specs!
Body: Mahogany (Acajou)
Neck: Mahogany/Maple (Erable)
Fretboard: Rosewood (Palissandre)
Pickup: Seymour Duncan P-Rails
Controls: Volume knob, 3-Way Toggle Switch
Radius compensated bridge, Hipshot tuning machines
Color: Arctic White

Princess Post-punk

I made the poster for a show that Unspkble is playing in March, alongside the great Princess Thailand from Toulouse!

When designing stuff for Unspkble, since we're influenced by the 80's post-punk scene, I like to think more in terms of abstract minimalism, textures, geometric composition, but here I wanted to have a proper FACE to catch people's eye... so I ended up drawing this Siouxsie-inspired person! I hope you enjoy 🤩

Unspkble: Live at The Black Sheep

This week, my band Unspkble released four songs recorded live during our last concert at The Black Sheep, in our hometown of Montpellier! These videos were filmed, edited and mixed by yours truly 😊

Feel free to subscribe to the Unspkble Youtube channel, and why not, share your favorite song from these live videos! It'd be a huge support 🖤 Thanks!


1. Questioning Collapse


2. Global Emergency


3. False Icon


4. Resurrect

False Icon

I didn't post much in a long while, and one of the reasons is that I've been pretty busy with my band Unspkble (where I play guitar and digital delay, lol). We started recording our first full-length album, that will be released around the summer of 2022, and went on a short tour before the holidays. Here's a visual I made for the band, and that we started using on teeshirts!

We are currently booking many shows for next year (in France), so if you like post-punk/cold wave or rock music in general, come check us out!

The Sunstriders - Walking On Sunshine

As some of you know, now that I play Dungeons & Dragons, I can get pretty insane when it comes to making artsy stuff to entertain my fellow adventurers.

To end our 'summer quest', our DM Yama had planned to have our gang, The Sunstriders, facing multiples threats (vampires and supremacist bird-people) and also, at some point, going on stage to perform at a "Woodstack" festival in Westgate...
Me being the 'life-sized' bard of the group, he then asked me to come up with a cover of "Walking on sunshine" by Katrina & The Waves, but since we wanted the whole gang to sing on it and keep this as a "surprise", I had to secretely contact each member of my party and ask them to record lines from the song... and we gave them a rule that was "don't talk about this project amongst each other"!

Thing is... One week before the reveal of the song, while waiting for everyone to send me their recordings, I was like "what about making some visuals for it?" and I started designing some stage makeups for our team...
...But then I was like, "what about reusing our Hero Forge avatars, and painting this makeup on them?"...
...And then "what about adding little animations?"...

It all went snowballing and I decided that I HAD to make a full video for the song!!! So I told one of my friends from the party to help me with the environment and dialog boxes; animated even more little things and after approx. 40 hours of self-absorbtion, I had this video!

I felt really honored to have all the members of the party agreeing to provide vocals on the song (even when it's just backvocals); it's another proof that music is for everyone and that you can have real fun with it, no matter how "bad" you think you are! So I'd like to thank them to having trusted me with their voices and for being so awesome 💙⭐ Also I really like working on crazy collective projects on short periods of time, and the "secret" aspect of it definitely made it even more exciting!

I already wrote too much! Enjoy!!!
 

The Sunstriders

Finished a group portrait of my Dungeons & Dragons party and their loyal familiars! Behold... The Sunstriders! ⚔🔥


By the way, I also wrote and recorded a theme song for them! Enjoy!

Sediment

Hello there!
Yesterday my long-time alternative metal band/project Between The Zones released a new EP entitled "Sediment"!

It contains 5 tracks (2 songs + 3 instrumentals) for 17 minutes of raw but catchy industrial vibes. Most of this music has been in suspension for years, but the recent lockdown here gave me time to finally close them (and add vocals). Now that I'm done with these, the project can go forward and I plan to release new stuff, one song after the other, throughout the year. I hope you'll enjoy and stick with me in this adventure!

Right now it's only on Bandcamp and Soundcloud, but from next week it will be available on all streaming platforms (Spotify, etc.) -- Enjoy nonetheless! 🤗

Les tourments

To celebrate the beginning of another rusty October, here is my doom metal rendition of French rapper ANTHA's beautiful song, "Les Tourments" 💀



2020 brought many calamities, but some good stuff too. Among the good stuff, I discovered ANTHA's solo album "Spleen" - an amazingly dark and ethereal album, and so far my favorite this year. I was already a fan of ORTIES (her rap band with her sister) and this goes even beyond. The production, the ambient, the lyrics (in French of course) are superb. I dare to say that I consider "Spleen" like a modern goth gem, and I don't care if "it's a rap record, it cannot be goth"; to me it's all about aesthetics, and here there is definitely "that thing" I like in dark music!

Last August, I was SO MUCH into this album that I decided to work on a doom metal 'adaptation' of the song "Les tourments", as I found that the words would suit so well this kind of mood. Enjoy! 😌

Fait Accompli

A simple tribute to the mesmerizing beauty of Toni Halliday from the English band Curve in the cult music video for their song "Fait Accompli".

Bliska

So, there it is. "Bliska" is the last and final EP from my solo project Londead.



Official press release:

When I started Londead, I was in a hole near New Cross gate in London, UK. This project helped me coping with hard times and self-doubt-- ultimately making me realize that most of these things, that perhaps I thought would be temporary due to my personal life at the beginning of the project, would stay with me until the end.

I began writing "Bliska" in late 2016, after arriving in the city of Warsaw (Poland) where I lived for the next 2 years. What should have been a very spontaneous EP (like "Brs de fear" in 2013) became something bigger, and it took me 2 years to fully finish the songs. This EP goes back to the musical roots of the project, but also features more vocals than ever before, and IN FRENCH throughout the whole thing. For years I wasn't interested in using my mothertongue in my music because I had (still have) mixed feelings with it as a "sung language", but on these songs, it came out naturally... and it added the definitive nail to the coffin of the project, making it my most testimonial recording, for better or worse: at the end of the mixing process, I understood that Londead was done. You can't run away from ghosts; you learn to live with them, to embrace them even. Nothing happens the way you'd like it to happen anyway.

To the people who listened / shared / spoke & wrote about it / actually gave a damn: Thank you. It meant a lot more than I could say. It's time to let go.

Music, lyrics and production by Gom Pilote
Artwork by Natalia Burzyńska

Digital version includes:
- High-quality audio in MP3, FLAC and more
- Front and back cover artwork in HD
- All lyrics (French and English)
- Instrumentals versions
- One original bonus track: "Descent"

Download BLISKA for free via the Délivrances netlabel

Here comes the rain again

I wanted to make a cover of this beautiful song by Eurythmics for a little while, so there it is, after 3 evenings of work.



Here comes the rain again
Falling on my head like a memory
Falling on my head like a new emotion
I want to walk in the open wind
I want to talk like lovers do
I want to dive into your ocean
Is it raining with you?

Talk to me like lovers do
Walk with me like lovers do
Talk to me like lovers do

Here comes the rain again
Raining in my head like a tragedy
Tearing me apart like a new emotion
Oh~
I want to breathe in the open wind
I want to kiss like lovers do
I want to dive into your ocean
Is it raining with you?

Talk to me like lovers do
Walk with me like lovers do
So baby talk to me, talk to me like lovers do

Here comes the rain again
Falling on my head like a memory
Falling on my head like a new emotion
(Here is comes again, here it comes again, yeah)
I want to walk in the open wind
I want to talk like lovers do
I want dive into your ocean
Is it raining with you?

Spider-man Theme (Cover)

After the release of Marvel's Spider-Man: Homecoming last summer, I started this cover, worked on it bits by bits over the past three months, and now that they are releasing the Blu-ray of the film, maybe it's time to share with you the final mix!

I wanted to do my version of the classic 60s theme song for years, and it finally happened. Imagine a musical collision between NOFX and Type O Negative over the Spider-Man theme, and you'll get a pretty accurate idea of what I had in mind when I started demoing this version!

Hope you enjoy!



...And the instrumental version, because why not!