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EMQ’s With Nicolas de Renty

EMQ’s With Nicolas de Renty

Hi everyone! Welcome to another EMQs interview, this time with French solo artist, Nicolas de Renty. Huge thanks to him for taking part.

What is your name, what do you play and can you tell us a little bit about the history of the band?

The name of the band is my own name, because it’s a one-man project. I play drums, vocals, and piano in there. Except in one song in which Anthony Malaussena plays the bass and the guitar, all

others instruments are done with the computer, because there are many of them: string quartet, brass ensemble, chamber orchestra and many other things. I didn’t plan to record an album when I wrote those songs, but the idea came along after having many of them. I chose the ones that were the most orchestral.

How did you come up with your band name?

I took my own name for this project, because this music and its texts reflect my own universe. It’s like a “musical I.D.” After playing in many different styles for years, all of them get mixed in my brain, and I wanted to give it form.

What Country / Region are you from and what is the Metal / Rock scene like there?

I’m from Nice in the south of France. The Rock and Metal scene has always been developed there, even if the places to play are rare now. Some known bands like Gorgon or Agressor come from here. In the 70’s there was Shylock by there too in a more progressive kind.

What is your latest release? (Album, EP, Single, Video)

I haven’t recorded an album with a band for a long time, because I play more live with jazz bands or with classical music. My latest releases are more videos in which I sing my own compositions and

arrangements of traditional sacred hymns for choir.

Who have been your greatest influences?

So many! The biggest are J.S. Bach, John Coltrane and Chuck Schuldiner. Those are the main, but there is a lot more like Magma, King Crimson, Unmercyfull, Origin, Monteverdi, Deeds of Flesh, Robert Schumann, Johannes Brahms, Genesis, Allan Holdsworth, Miles Davis.

What first got you into music?

My parents. They didn’t play instruments, but they used to listen to lots of great music at home. I remember being a fan of Mozart’s Requiem and Pink Floyd’s “Wish You Were Here” when I was 4 or 5 years old, thanks to them.


If you could collaborate with a current band or musician who would it be?

To play with for some gig, or to be part of? To play with for gigs, it would be Progressive bands (Rock or Metal). But to be part of, I don’t know: I play too many different styles to involve myself in one specific band in particular.

If you could play any festival in the world, which would you choose and why?

Every classical music festival, because if I could find all the musicians I need to play this music live, it would be a classical orchestra.

What’s the weirdest gift you have ever received from a fan? Heineken beer.

If you had one message for your fans, what would it be?

Love and pray God and get your soul ready to go to Heaven after death in there.

If you could bring one rock star back from the dead, who would it be? 

No one: it would break the legend.

What do you enjoy the most about being a musician? And what do you hate?

The thing I most enjoy about being a musician is offering the music I play to the glory of God. I hate nothing in this gift from the sky.

If you could change one thing about the music industry, what would it be?

Transforming the fashion of Satan’s adoration into hate of this world’s corruption, which he is the ruler.

Name one of your all-time favourite albums? 

Death’s “Individual Thought Patterns”.

What’s best? Vinyl, Cassettes, CDs or Downloads? Cassettes!

What’s the best gig that you have played to date? Nice Jazz festival in 2008.

If you weren’t a musician, what else would you be doing? 

Studying traditional Church’s theology and praying.

Which five people would you invite to a dinner party? 

My love Selin, my parents, my brother and his son.

What’s next for the band?

Composing and recording more and more Sacred music for choirs.

What Social Media / Website links do you use to get your music out to people? 

Youtube : https://www.youtube.com/@nicolasderenty3251
Facebook : https://www.facebook.com/nicolas.derenty.315/
https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100034428103289
Bandcamp : https://nicolasderenty.bandcamp.com/album/retour-au-bercail
Instagram : https://www.instagram.com/nicolasderenty/
Linked in : https://fr.linkedin.com/in/nicolas-de-renty-ab9090118

There’s a long-standing food-based debate here in the UK. And we’d like your help. So… A Jaffa cake

– is it a cake or a biscuit? Discuss!

I’d say a cake, because the industrial known version is a biscuit, but I suppose that when it’s hand- made by an English Grand-mother, it might be a cake.

Thank you for your time. Is there anything else that you would like to add?

Thank you too, and to all people who helped me to realize this album. And pray hard to make us all free from Satan’s hands.

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