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Sylvain Chauveau plays in the WNYC studio (WNYC/David Garland)Sylvain Chauveau
Paris-based composer Sylvain Chauveau creates a unique kind of quasi-chamber music that has a gentle intensity, with roots in both modern pop and the music of such early 20th Century French composers as Erik Satie. His subtle, understated album "Nocturne Impalpable" always generates a lot of inquiries when it's played on WNYC. On a brief tour of the U.S., Sylvain visits with host David Garland to talk about his music and to play it on the WNYC piano and his electric guitar, which he plucks, strums, bows, and layers, creating lovely sonic weavings. Also, Parisian writer and performer Felicia Atkinson joins Sylvain for a moody spoken-word pop song abstraction, and Sylvain sings one of his favorite songs by Bill Callahan of Smog.
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All About WNYC's Music Host
David Garland, host of WNYC's Evening Music and Spinning on Air, is also a composer and a performer. He has performed his music extensively in the U.S. and Europe and several of his recordings and downloads are available on his Web site, DavidGarland.com.
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