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He grew up in Versailles with a family who was very influenced by pop music. When he was young, Gondry wanted to be a painter or an inventor. In the 80s he entered in an art school in Paris where he could develop his graphic skills and where he also met friends with whom he created a pop-rock band called Oui-Oui. The band released 2 albums ('Chacun tout le monde' and 'Formidable') and several singles until their separation in 1992. Gondry was the drummer of the band and also directed their video clips in which it was possible to see his strange world, influenced by the 60s and by his childhood. One of his videos was shown on MTV and when Björk saw it, she asked him to make her first solo video for 'Human Behaviour'. The partnership is famous: Gondry directed five other Björk's videos, benefiting by the huge budgets. This led to commissions for other artists around the world, including Massive Attack. He also made a lot of commercials for Gap, Smirnoff, Air France, Nike, Coca Cola, Adidas, Polaroid and Levi - the latter making him the most highly-awarded director for a one-off commercial.

Hollywood became interested in Gondry's success and he directed his first feature movie Human Nature (2001), adapting a Charlie Kaufman's scenario, which was shown in the 2001 Cannes Festival. Although it wasn't a big success, this film allowed him to direct Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004), for which he again collaborated with Charlie Kaufman. The movie became a popular independent film and he and his co-writers won an Oscar for it.

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Sibyl was born the 27th of May 1972 in Versailles, France. Her father was a teacher at the American school in Paris at the time, but he lost his job for being too radical for the French schooling system. So they moved to Virginia when Sibyl was just 6 weeks old. When Sibyl left college in 1992, where she studied art, she moved to Paris to start modeling. She thought she could go to school there or at least take some classes there, but she got too much work to think about anything else. From then on it went up with Sibyl Buck and she started working for the big designers. She became famous for her piercings and her red hair. She got that idea from a comic book called "X-Men". The trick to get it red, was to bleach it just to yellow and then put pillarbox red manic panic on it. In spite of her red hair and her piercings, she is even a favorite of conservative designer Yves St Laurent. Modeling, she says, affords her the opportunity to continuously change her looks.

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During the uncertain first year of the pandemic, JB Dunckel's thoughts turned to what he considers life's absolutes: the insignificance of man in the face of outer space but also our eternal material connection to the cosmos. Carbon, the title of his third solo album, references this crucial elemental relationship. "When you burn it, it doesn't go away," says this former physics student. "It's full of strength - diamonds are crystallised carbon. Carbon is the thing that makes you solid. It's the most important thing in our bodies and in our lives, but we're hardly aware of it."

The title reflects Dunckel's "admiration for scientific things in general" (and its cover his fascination with geometric shapes). That mindset - futurist, progressive, determined that a brighter future is possible - informs his first album in four years. In news that will delight fans of his fantastical, enigmatic work as half of defining 2000s pop duo Air, it is a return to pop - of sorts - after a spell producing acclaimed soundtracks for the likes of François Ozon's film Summer of 85 (for which Dunckel received a César nomination). Never one to fixate on the past - Air is definitively over, he says but who knows? - Carbon is also about pushing forward, combining his innate pop nous with a desire to experiment and match his compositional masters.

Prior to the pandemic, he collaborated on live shows with an artist friend, Jacques Perconte, who produced glitchy digital imagery that Dunckel improvised to. "It gave me a lot of energy and new ideas," he says. The unpredictability of analogue keyboards in a live setting "was really interesting for me and really risky. It was a way to change my music and not be afraid of doing something really different." During lockdown, Dunckel was able to sequester himself his studio (Air's former HQ) and enjoy the luxury of time, producing even more tracks than would fit on Carbon (he's saving them for future release) and trying out other experiments: on the methodically charging Spark, he explored serial music, finding reassurance once again in mathematical form.

The stability of the Carbon concept and Dunckel's faith in science pushed him to dream about possible utopian futures and how we might escape our current predicament. "We have to change our way of living or we're going to seriously be in trouble," he says. "Covid is the viral aspect of some future, major crises." The album's most grounded song, the ruminative Zombie Park, was inspired by a park in Jaurès Paris, near Dunckel's Paris apartment, where the authorities rounded up homeless communities. Dunckel's utopian vision of revolution can be spiritual. The airy, chiming Cristal Mind, he says, was made to channel the moment after yoga or meditation where "you feel your spirit clear as crystal. You feel your brain and body, you have no aggression. It's a vibration I wanted to put into music." Sex UFO is jokier, a female voice (JB's Voice actually) dreamily observing a "Sex UFO, flying over LA" in a way that can't help but recall the likes of Jeff Bezos seeking to colonise space with their unexpected penis rockets. Sometimes, however, Dunckel's vision of utopia is more idiosyncratic. He's always been captivated by outer space (after all, he was our Moon Safari tour guide), a key theme of Carbon, because it reminds him that life is short and everything we do will be forgotten. "It helps me to be happy," he says. "To take distance with things and feel as if life is a funny movie. On the languid Space, Heather D Angelo of the US band Au Revoir Simone muses the philosophical properties of the cosmos: "What do you call space? It's more than just an absence."

Dunckel also entertains the provocative idea that big tech may save us yet. The triumphalist Corporate Sunset considers how "big corporations are changing the world and what they propose could be paradise," Dunckel explains. "That song is optimistic but big tech companies are more likely to bring us hell. They're more powerful now than any country - they're the new kings." Whether that's better or worse than traditional forms of power is up for debate, he says. "Why would a government necessarily provide something good for people? Politicians are often nothing more than the entertainment branch of these corporations."

Carbon opens up a space to consider these alternative futures. Dunckel calls his new album a psychological test, one that reveals the listener's own persuasions. His, he explains, are to make music that helps him escape reality. "It's all about creating waves that bring me happiness - or that reveal how I feel. It has to drag me into a dream or a sort of internal pleasure." He wants it to make listeners feel "ready to travel in space", he says. "Music brings energy and I want them to feel this energy." With Carbon, Dunckel is supplying the raw materials.

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