Akusmi

Pascal Bideau (Akusmi) graduated from Goldsmiths College, University of London with a musicianship for jazz and popular music and has extensive experience as a composer, scoring and producing for feature films, documentaries and commercials, including campaigns for Vogue, Dior and Hyundai.  In 2023 he completed the score for his third feature film ’Le théorème de Marguerite’ which premiered at Cannes Film Festival 2023.

His debut album Fleeting Future, released on Tonal Union was The Guardian’s “Contemporary Album of the Month: Experimental Music” following its release in June 2022.  With its hallucinatory, genre-defying blend of minimalism, cosmic jazz and Fourth World influences, and in its quest for optimism in the face of unknown and limitless possibility. Fleeting Future stands apart as an inventive and inspirational debut release.

In 2023, Pascal returned with his Lines EP, born from the desire to take where the acclaimed debut album Fleeting Future left off – in search of new forms. Fully recorded at his home studio in London, Lines EP is almost entirely comprised of alto saxophone, clarinet and piano with embellishments of ambience and minimal percussive elements.