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Julien Rimailho - Music Composer

About me

Born in France in 1985, I have been composing and transposing my ideas into music for over fifteen years.

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In my bedroom as a teenager in the early 2000s, I drew on numerous sources and influences to make the music that I wanted to hear. In my little home studio, I used all the instruments that I had to hand (guitar, drums, violin, keyboards, banjo, mandolin, flute, etc.) with no other end in mind than creation itself. I taught myself to use MAO, a brilliant tool that allowed solitary musicians such as myself to create without constraints or limits. This gave rise to my first solo musical project, Grey Honey, a kind of folk laboratory.

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Towards the end of the 2000s, I began to work professionally on commissions for advertisements. I was able to perfect my technique for this particular exercise, whose tight deadlines were stimulating and helped me to give form to my ideas. In the process, I learned the codes of composition and production for a broad range of musical registers, from big band to mainstream pop, electronica, and spaghetti Western soundtracks. I have composed music for numerous radio, television and cinema campaigns in France and abroad.

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Alongside my work for advertisers, I also mastered composition for large symphony orchestras, regularly writing music for documentaries and short films. In 2019, I composed the score for the musical tale “Eliazar, l’oiseau rare”, a sextet recorded by the musicians of the Radio France philharmonic orchestra.    

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Since 2011, I have also collaborated extensively with the singer and songwriter Violette Libault. We released a joint EP, You Are The Strangest Animal, in 2012. Violette contributed to my 2014 solo album Mile Ends, and I also arranged the music for her 2015 EP, Else’s.

2019 marked an artistic turning point in our ongoing collaboration as we formed Casque D’Or, singing in French over electronic music. We released our first EP as Casque D’Or in March 2020. 

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