Sylvain Todd is a reasonably agreeable young man who makes imaginative music using electric bass, electric and acoustic guitars, keyboard, banjo, synthesizer, vocals, djembe, tambourine, violin, flutes and whistles, harmonica, melodica, samples, jaw harp, and whatever else he can get his hands on.
Sylvain was born in Wakefield, QC on September 24th, 1987, and grew up somewhere in the woods north of there. He grew up mostly on classical music but was also influenced early on by the bits of eighties and early nineties music he heard growing up.
Over the years, Sylvain's musical horizons expanded dramatically, encompassing everything from techno, early folk, disco, rock 'n' roll, prog rock, jazz, disco, Chinese opera and folk music, circus music, soul, hip hop, ambient, modern classical, and so on. At age fifteen, he started playing bass, and started seriously trying to make music when he was about eighteen. His music is intended to transcend genres and blend all the music he listens to in ways that are sadly uncommon.
Sylvain is currently working on a debut album, albeit slowly, and we await it with very bated breath.
King Crimson, Brian Eno, The Smiths, Robert Fripp, Japan, David Sylvian, Ryuichi Sakamoto, Haruomi Hosono, Joe Hisaishi, Caetano Veloso, Steve Reich, Malcolm McLaren, Genesis, Gentle Giant, Alan Parsons Project, Igor Stravinsky, Bela Bartok, W A Mozart, Claude Debussy, J S Bach, Dmitri Shostakovitch, The Shangri-Las, The Ronettes, Peking Opera, Trilok Gurtu, Adama Drame, Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Joe Zawinul, Ornette Coleman, Steve Coleman, Kanye West, Gorillaz, Madonna, The Dandy Warhols, Van der Graff Generator, Michael Robidoux, Harmonium, Serge Gainsbourg, Strunz and Farrah, Bauhaus, The Cure, Delerium, Aphex Twin, U-Ziq, LTJ Bukem, Blind Lemon Jefferson, Pete Seeger, Neil Young, Bob Dylan, Mahavishnu Orchestra, Pet Shop Boys, Baden Powell, Frank Zappa, Bjork, Kate Bush, BT Express, James Brown, Sly and the Family Stone, Mike Oldfield, Steve Hackett, Peter Gabriel, Cirque du Soleil, P I Tchaikovsky, Comus, Jethro Tull, ProjeKct Two, Digable Planets, Air, Earth, Wind and Fire, Stereolab, Bell Orchestre, Spencer Nilsen, David Bowie, video games, cartoons
