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Edgar Nielsen-Franc grew up in Newbury, Berkshire, with his family of his mother, father, paternal grandparents, three sisters and brother. The Nielsen-Franc family was a relatively wealthy one, living in a pleasant house on the civil parish of Newbury. They had most of what they wanted, went to a decent public school, and Edgar always had plenty of access to musical equipment and lessons.
When he turned 13, however, Edgar no longer found the classical music lessons sufficient and sought out training all around, from himself, old records, and schoolmates. At 18, he moved to London and started his music career as a backup musician, playing with various touring bands including The Dandy Warhols, Muse, The Faint and Nine Inch Nails on several occasions.
"This really influenced me," says Edgar. "I always had all these kinda musicians that I loved, working with them, helping them out on stage, it was great, I learned how to play their styles. It tired the hell out of me sometimes, but it was good money for something I loved."
When he turned 20, last year, he decided to start working as an independent musician, opening at small festivals or concerts for more famous bands, performing covers with lyrics occasionally replaced, mostly for comedic purposes.
This year, he decided to start working truly as a lyricist and musician, working on singles and releasing the first one, "Days In A Black Hole," about a week ago.
"Not bad sales, either," he added, with a grin.
We were lucky enough to get our hands on part of his new album, and will give you, readers and believers access to a quick preview.
Let it be known that we believe Edgar is one of the most unique musicians we have encountered - each song on an album sounds almost like a completely different artist, and would sound like so, if not for the similar voice.
The songs are as follows:
Express Yourself (N.W.A. Cover)
Not much to be said about this one, as it's pretty similar to the original. Does show off Edgar's rapping ability, however.
Sequel
Statement about, go figure, unoriginality in the music buisness. This seems to be more of a indie song, with a lot of passion into it. It goes from a quick, poppy song to a slow, mournful song very gradually, so much so that it's barely noticeable unless you have it on loop.
Bang Bang (My Baby Shot Me Down) (Nancy Sinatra Cover)
Another cover, that's mostly the same as the original... of note, though, is that he did speed it up and add a little bit of a rockish feeling to it.
Straight Edge
It's at this point Edgar really starts to break it down into the punk genre, calling on Minor Threat a bit as he talks about the straight edge life style he lives. It's less angry, however, and is more just saying what it is and why he lives it.
Carnivore Culture
You want an angry song? Here it is. Carnivore Culture is a very Rise-Against like, furious song about not only animal rights as the name may imply, but about the world in general being very Canis Canim Edit, violent and hateful.
Hollow Man
A song about drugs... he talks about how it leaves one a "Hollow, empty man" and "murders the soul." It is a very slow, sad ballad with many, many high notes and sudden scare chords leading to complete changes in melody.
Unfortunately, those were the only non-single tracks we could get, and with the single being three tracks on the album, that leaves one that we don't know what it is. Overall, it's a good album, and all we can say is look out for this name in the future - it'll probably be all over the place. |
BANDS:
The Dive: ("Appeal To Reason" era Rise Against + Megadeth)
Gabriel Allis - Vocals & Rhythm Guitar
Matthew Aiden - Backup Vocals & Lead Guitar
David Logan - Bass Guitar
Tommis DeSemph - Drums
Edgar Nielsen-Franc: (Tool + Switchfoot + N.W.A + Dream Theater)
Edgar Nielsen-Franc: Lead Vocals, Guitar, Synth, Bass, Background Beats |
