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June et Jim is the work of franco-spanish musical duo Marion Cousin and Borja Flames. They met in 2006 and wrote their first songs together in Barcelona. Later that year, they moved to Paris. Renaud Cousin and Igor Estrabol joined them in 2009, armed with instruments of copper, iron, wood, skins and wind: drums, percussion, bugle, clarinet, trumpet and singing saw. After six years, almost two hundred shows and more than fifty compositions, they have completed their first album.
Les Forts is a collection of eleven songs that were recorded and mixed in Le Studio de Meudon by Jean-Paul Gonnod. The band recorded everything live on old microphones, preamps and an analog mixing table over four days and four nights, in order to capture the energy and character of their shows. The result is something warm and intensely alive; mysterious and entrancing acoustic pop music sung both in French and in Spanish. Their songs conjure up echoes of old Iberian folk music, something akin to the soundtrack of a medieval western movie or psychedelic Trans-Pyrenean town anthems. The album creates a stage for wars, dreams, wild chases where man is both hunter and prey, power plays, joy procured through light and warmth, illusions created in dust, and footpaths tracked through foggy woods.
June et Jim now seeks to bring the album to life. With the help of new fifth member, guitarist Philippe Crab, they invite those who wish to immerse themselves in June et Jims campos de batalla on an esoteric adventure, helping them lay down the foundation stone of their musical temple.
June and Jim was born in Barcelona in January 2006 when Marion Cousin, singer in Saturday night didn't happen, a fleeting formation that celebrated the sixties girls' bands, meets Flames Borja, a member of the Spanish duo of instrumental music Belmonde, a former member of the rock band Tedium, and composer for cinema and stage.
The project starts in the Catalan capital, Marion writing texts, Borja its component words. They carry a first demo in Spain in May 2006, before joining Paris in the fall, carrying the colors of drylands, the rhythm of the tide on stones.
After recording a second demo in February 2007, they provide a series of duo concerts, surrounding himself with many acoustic instruments and electric guitars, keyboards, melodica, glockenspiel, toy piano, percussion, and a loop pedal. They are in residence au Chat Noir, l'Ogre à Plumes, and play at la Java, la Bellevilloise, Main d'Oeuvres, and the Festival des Attitudes Indépendantes in 2008.
In 2008, June and Jim records two EPs, "Les Vivants" (7 tracks, March 2008) and "Fables" (6 Tracks, August 2008) and continues its journey of Parisian stages. It performs for a Spanish tour of four dates in September 2008.
In January 2009, June and Jim grew to become a band variable geometry, built around the founding duo. The band performs at the Sunset in quintet, trio at the Trois Baudets, and in the program "Acoustic" from TV5monde, in sextet at L'Espace Jemmapes andat the Festival des Filles du Canal.
In June 2010 the group is focusing on the collective experiences of the first quartet, where Marion and Borja are accompanied by Igor Estrabol (trumpet, clarinet) and Renaud Cousin (drums) for concerts at the China Club, the Festival of Summer Loge, at l'International, the Pop In, and for a tour of 22 days in Germany and the Netherlands.
Back from the tour, June and Jim joined "Le Saule" and goes into the studio for the preparation of its first LP, "Les Forts", recorded and mixed by Jean-Paul Gonnod (Phoenix, Barbara Carlotti, Sourya), Studio de Meudon in December 2010 and mastered by Raphael Jonin in March 2011. Navigating between Mexican trumpets, guitars and jungle rhythms of spaghetti westerns, the duo has mastered the art of creating great spaces in our cities still likes skimpy in this album to foil borders, to expand those of French song.
"Les Forts"(2012)
"Fables" (2008) EP
"Les Vivants" (2008) EP
