Yoel was born and raised in New York, Damien was born in Paris, raised in Australia. They met in Lyon when they were teenagers, and decided to make music together. After school, one left for London, the other for Bogotá. Years later, music brought them back together, in Nice, but things did not work that well and they decided to split. Yoel moved to Berlin, where he still lives. They kept in touch and eventually started a distance music-relationship, which became pretty serious three years ago. They weren’t named Part Company in the first place, when they were discovered on the Inrocks platforms « CQFD » two years ago. Whatever. They got signed by french indie label Gum (The Shoes, Woodkid, Herman Dune), and just released their first EP, Babar in both digital and vinyl 7’’, colored with many rock influences.

They like : « Loud drums,Polish Vodka, 8mm films, guitars and flat wound basses, Captain Beefheart, Robert Wyatt, summer nights, Fawlty Towers,Iggy the Cat, Miles Davis, sea life, Black Books, Wilhelm Reich, les Valseuses, Billie Holiday, The Go-Betweens, driving round the country, Dr. Strangelove, John Fante, The Freak Brothers, Glenn Gould, Scotch Whisky, Eastern European Poster Art, mail boxes, Zinedine Zidane on the field, Beyond Good & Evil, Plastic Ono Band, Italian food, Syd Barrett, Todd Browning, hay stacks, Otto Dix, Cheddar, Henry Purcell,Motown,the possibilities of childhood, In between buttons, Fred Frith, playing Pool, Chris Marker, Frank Sinatra, long grass gardens, John Zorn, Klaus Kinski, losers and underdogs, football, L'internationale situationiste, Chili sauce on Pizza, Public Enemy, David Cronenberg, La Monte Young, Jean Pierre Melville, Nina Simone,Art Deco, Francois Truffaut, Wu Tang, Arthur Rimbaud, High-fidelity systems, Their Satanic Majesties Requests, Cap Ferrat inlets, Jean Cocteau, John Wayne, PETA, Leo Ferré, birds, Warsaw, yard sales, ethnographic art, John Cale, airports, Slavoj Zizek, horses, Arnold Böcklin, London parks, Isaac Hayes, women and lighthouses. »

At the moment, they are working on their first album, expected for next spring.

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