Uploaded October 2023 | Updated September 2026, 1 hour ago
Hello people, today I come back with a treat !!
A brand new song, that will hopefully be featured in my next album (in a few years, you know the drill...), but this time I share it with a full live band, and finally PROPERLY RECORDED AND CAPTURED !
This track was first composed in 2021 by myself in my homestudio, when I still had hope to release an album within the same year lol, that changed and I decided to play it and record it with friends and musicians.
Last time I did that was for an unreleased Tigran Hamasyan track, that ended up being deleted of youtube 24h after the publication because Universal (yes) wasn't happy... So at least this time nobody will delete it against my will...
The title, "2 chords", is simply because the whole track is based on two chords, Abmaj9 and Gmaj9. It started as a test or an exercice to prove that with good arrangement, you don't need much to start a track. Just 2 chords are enough, then you introduce some transitions, melodies, variations, and try to make all that mess flow well together.
This is the 1rst part of this exercice. Part 2 will be coming soon, like in a couple of weeks after this one, and both will be featured on my next album.
My socials and various links : https://linkr.bio/clementbelio
You will be able to buy 2 CHORDS and support me here : clems6belio.bandcamp.com
My official website : clementbelio.com
Facebook : facebook.com/clems6beliomusic
Instagram : instagram.com/clems6belio
CREDITS :
Drums : Benjamin Vidal @PyjamaMusic
Piano : François-Xavier de Turenne
Bass : Matthieu Salesse @matthieusalesse8492
Vocals : Carla Fernandez
Baryton sax : Marina Moureau
Tenor Sax : Valentin Foulon Balsamo @ValentinFoulon-Balsamo
Soprano sax : Brice Matha
Guitar, vocals and music : Clément Belio
Cameras : Nicolas Girardi @nicolasgirardi6895 Pierre Foulquier @pierrefoulquier and Clément Belio
Lights : Pierre Foulquier and Nicolas Girardi
Audio recording : Manon Ribard @manonribard
Mixing, mastering, video editing and color grading : Clément Belio
Color grading done with the magnificent plugin from @ColorFinaleChannel Color Finale Pro that I just won a couple of weeks ago !
SPECIAL THANKS : @studiodubassin for lending some crucial gear to record ourselves.
Rock et Chanson for the venue and gear.
About that video now, in 2021 after the first full mockups and preprod were done, I thought I would do differently than my previous releases. Like instead of insisting of doing it all by myself like a maniac, I would delegate as much as possible to my friends and musicians that I've met during the last few years. So I started by recording Benjamin on drums, summer 2021. Benjamin is also the pianist of my other band Itzamna. Can you imagine that, another multiinstrumentalist at my disposal. Yes, in a perfect world, every single one of my clones would be replaced by a better and real musician, in my ideal band, I don't play in it lol.
So because most of my tracks have a strong compositional bulk made of drums and piano, I needed a good drummer and pianist to replace me, fortunately I have both. Benjamin on drums and François-Xavier on piano.
The difference the actual drums recording made was enough to convince me I needed to replace more of my own performances and programmations. Yes at the risk of loosing a bit of my very personal flavour and colour and diluting somehow the essence of my music by letting other people enter, but that's what I want to try now. I think I'm mature enough to know where to let go and where to retain, it's a thin balance between control and guiding the performances and still letting the possibility of unexpected surprises.
The idea of a full captation and video came after the Tigran fiasco and removal of the video from YouTube that most of you have never seen and probably never will... Months of work for nothing, that was frustrating... So at least with a track of mine there is no risk. But "PATIENCE" is far now, probably even far from myself. It's already been 4-5 years, I'm not the same person anymore. So let's try something new, a captation of something unreleased, maybe that'll help me to play live around here, maybe not... Maybe it will trigger something in my composition process now that I have a full band at my disposal...
So I wrote partitions, rearranged the original track for this specific formation, FX and Benjamin helped a lot along the way because I am still not used to actually write down partitions, since I never really needed to because I was doing it all by myself. Gathered the musicians, rented the venue, asked a few more friends to help be record and film. 4 simultaneous cameras and time to shoot some B rolls and more aesthetic shots while still retaining the live aspect and choosing only one of the three takes. So yeah, that's 100% live, and it sounds amazing !
Hope you enjoy, I have more like this coming super soon !
Hello people, today I come back with a treat !!
A brand new song, that will hopefully be featured in my next album (in a few years, you know the drill...), but this time I share it with a full live band, and finally PROPERLY RECORDED AND CAPTURED !
This track was first composed in 2021 by myself in my homestudio, when I still had hope to release an album within the same year lol, that changed and I decided to play it and record it with friends and musicians.
Last time I did that was for an unreleased Tigran Hamasyan track, that ended up being deleted of youtube 24h after the publication because Universal (yes) wasn't happy... So at least this time nobody will delete it against my will...
The title, "2 chords", is simply because the whole track is based on two chords, Abmaj9 and Gmaj9. It started as a test or an exercice to prove that with good arrangement, you don't need much to start a track. Just 2 chords are enough, then you introduce some transitions, melodies, variations, and try to make all that mess flow well together.
This is the 1rst part of this exercice. Part 2 will be coming soon, like in a couple of weeks after this one, and both will be featured on my next album.
My socials and various links : https://linkr.bio/clementbelio
You will be able to buy 2 CHORDS and support me here : clems6belio.bandcamp.com
My official website : clementbelio.com
Facebook : facebook.com/clems6beliomusic
Instagram : instagram.com/clems6belio
CREDITS :
Drums : Benjamin Vidal @PyjamaMusic
Piano : François-Xavier de Turenne
Bass : Matthieu Salesse @matthieusalesse8492
Vocals : Carla Fernandez
Baryton sax : Marina Moureau
Tenor Sax : Valentin Foulon Balsamo @ValentinFoulon-Balsamo
Soprano sax : Brice Matha
Guitar, vocals and music : Clément Belio
Cameras : Nicolas Girardi @nicolasgirardi6895 Pierre Foulquier @pierrefoulquier and Clément Belio
Lights : Pierre Foulquier and Nicolas Girardi
Audio recording : Manon Ribard @manonribard
Mixing, mastering, video editing and color grading : Clément Belio
Color grading done with the magnificent plugin from @ColorFinaleChannel Color Finale Pro that I just won a couple of weeks ago !
SPECIAL THANKS : @studiodubassin for lending some crucial gear to record ourselves.
Rock et Chanson for the venue and gear.
About that video now, in 2021 after the first full mockups and preprod were done, I thought I would do differently than my previous releases. Like instead of insisting of doing it all by myself like a maniac, I would delegate as much as possible to my friends and musicians that I've met during the last few years. So I started by recording Benjamin on drums, summer 2021. Benjamin is also the pianist of my other band Itzamna. Can you imagine that, another multiinstrumentalist at my disposal. Yes, in a perfect world, every single one of my clones would be replaced by a better and real musician, in my ideal band, I don't play in it lol.
So because most of my tracks have a strong compositional bulk made of drums and piano, I needed a good drummer and pianist to replace me, fortunately I have both. Benjamin on drums and François-Xavier on piano.
The difference the actual drums recording made was enough to convince me I needed to replace more of my own performances and programmations. Yes at the risk of loosing a bit of my very personal flavour and colour and diluting somehow the essence of my music by letting other people enter, but that's what I want to try now. I think I'm mature enough to know where to let go and where to retain, it's a thin balance between control and guiding the performances and still letting the possibility of unexpected surprises.
The idea of a full captation and video came after the Tigran fiasco and removal of the video from YouTube that most of you have never seen and probably never will... Months of work for nothing, that was frustrating... So at least with a track of mine there is no risk. But "PATIENCE" is far now, probably even far from myself. It's already been 4-5 years, I'm not the same person anymore. So let's try something new, a captation of something unreleased, maybe that'll help me to play live around here, maybe not... Maybe it will trigger something in my composition process now that I have a full band at my disposal...
So I wrote partitions, rearranged the original track for this specific formation, FX and Benjamin helped a lot along the way because I am still not used to actually write down partitions, since I never really needed to because I was doing it all by myself. Gathered the musicians, rented the venue, asked a few more friends to help be record and film. 4 simultaneous cameras and time to shoot some B rolls and more aesthetic shots while still retaining the live aspect and choosing only one of the three takes. So yeah, that's 100% live, and it sounds amazing !
Hope you enjoy, I have more like this coming super soon !
