La Jeunesse Doree presents My Name Is Claude’s debut album release party at one of the most beautiful venues our fine city has to offer, St. Elisabeth Kirche. This is the perfect setting for this most mysterious of musicians and his unique brand of baroque-pop.
My Name is Claude is Claude Ferland’s most assured incarnation yet and his album Science of Doubt its perfect manifestation; where storytelling and confession, performance and reality, art and fashion combine for a truly revealing, captivating and disarming form of creative expression. Feet on the ground, head in the clouds, and accompanied by what he calls his “imaginary troop of elephants and giant blue butterflies”, My Name Is Claude now walks the world, sharing the sounds of his disarming and touching music.
In the midst of a bleak Berlin winter, Claude recorded an album of compositions involving electronic elements, contra-bass, piano and harp accompaniment, co-produced by himself and Sylvain Carroz. This album, his debut LP, Science Of Doubt, focuses on recurring themes of love, loss and solitude, it examines the troubled relationship between mankind and knowledge, science and the paradoxes that exist within.
Peter Richter in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung wrote of Claude Ferland:
“He makes music. He’s not completely of this world. But he’s about to conquer it. Claude Ferland is a multi-disciplinary musician whose creativity manifests in the oeuvre of My Name Is Claude. At the intersection of minimal classic arrangements and new technological sounds, My Name Is Claude writes and performs hauntingly melancholic songs that you may recognise as baroque pop.”
Doors open at 8:30pm and the show begin at 9pm sharp. Support is from Goldene Jugend and Adrian Navarro.
