Independent record label, based in Marseille, Rescue + Return Records is a family of artists with sincere, ambitious, and radical proposals.
JANIS
France
(Alternative pop)
BOOKING (Dj Set/ Live)
etienne@rescuereturn.com
Janis is a French multidisciplinary artist, known for her work as a singer, songwriter, DJ and actress.
With a passion for exploring different creative mediums, Janis has made a name for herself as a versatile artist who brings a unique perspective to her work. She is currently starring in Paul Preciado’s first movie « Orlando ».
She is known in the alternative queer Parisian’s scene and she’s one of the resident of Antidote’s magazine parties, her signature sound is very inspired by the queer scene and the 90’s.
Her artistry reflects her experiences as a trans woman, and she is known for using her platform to raise awareness of LGBTQI+ issues.
She previously worked with brand such as Hermès, Levi’s, Gucci, Isabel Marrant & Moët & Chandon.
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MERRYN JEANN
Australia
(Folk - Rock - Alternative
BOOKING AUS/NZ/ASIA :
rob@selectmusic.com.au
PROMO :
UK/International: isobel.williams@whiteboardpr.co.uk
Australia/NZ :
zsazsa@positivefeedback.com.au
France:
Melissa Phulpin
mel.p@tomboy-lab.com
Merryn Jeann is a Byron Bay Shire, Arakwal Country based singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist.
She has crafted a genre-bending, dreamy world of soundscapes that bear a magnetic, musical wisdom.
Merryn Jeann is a diverse artist, always experimenting and proudly free from the confines of a box.
She thrives in exploring both visual and sonic arts and the result is a sound that embodies a world of creativity, capable of transporting listeners into her one of a kind universe.
After living in Paris for many years, Merryn recently returned to Australia to study Fine Arts in Melbourne, however after one semester, music drew her back in and became her primary focus once more.
Through this short though profound experience at school, Merryn took the opportunity to truly recognise the visual arts angle as a lens to experience, see and understand her music making process and performance, to deepen this pre-existing relationship as demonstrated in her self directed, somewhat experimental videos (under the alias MAAMDAAM) and captivating live shows.
MUSIC
ICE CREAM, [SINGLE]
2024
2024
DOG BEACH, [ALBUM]
2024
2024
Live at the Trabendo, (Live) [EP]
2022
2022
Mind your own business, [SINGLE]
2021
2021
Mother is Burning, [SINGLE]
2020
2020
Merryn’s Jeanns - The Remix Album, [ALBUM]
2020
2020
Merryn Jeann, [ALBUM]
2019
2019
MUSIC VIDEOS
LIVE SESSIONS
REVIEWS
"..in short, I think it was one of the most creative and joyful musical partnerships l've ever had the pleasure to be involved with... In my production work, if possible, with both bands and solo artists, I like to have a very open-minded "anything goes", non-precious approach to making records, and actually seek out artists that I think are most likely to respond well to that...l had an instinct Merryn might be one of those, and my instincts were very much more than fulfilled...Over the six weeks of recording, it has to be said I think I learned more about taking that particular approach from Merryn than I think I have on any previous album recording sessions or artists I've worked with."
Rob Ellis
“Her unique brand of art-pop with elements of jazz and folk paired with her rich vocals and clever lyricism is positively spellbinding. Dog Beach is an impressive first outing from an artist with a singular point of view that leaves the listener begging for more."
© Chris Sanley, KEXP Musical Director
A transcendental pop odyssey which radiates like the exhilarating and sensitive mirror of the reflections and confidences of a young singer who contemplates our society, evokes the passage to adulthood, exorcises her fears and her loves with a writing talent and a rare honesty.
Radio France
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Live created thanks to the support of Region Sud
MGMT:
France:
Melissa Phulpin
mel.p@tomboy-lab.com
BOOKING :
etienne@rescuereturn.com
Chris is a socially engaged self-taught musician exploring sound through video games, performances, films, podcasts, and albums as a composer, director, and performer. Although based in Marseille, her collaborations have taken her around the world from France to Australia, England, Hungary, and the US.
She’s the first woman to join Stephen Budd’s prestigious producer roster in London. Her work as producer has been diverse, working on albums by Adam Naas, Spaceman and IN CASE OF FIRE.
At the end of 2024, Chris is debuting her solo project. With reverb-drenched guitars and heavy basses mixed with virtual violins, she becomes "Confuse," a world holding punk, folk, hip hop and music concrete in its musicality. Her debut album features dark, surreal pop lo-fi songs sung in French. With support from L’Aide des Musiques Innovatrices (AMI, Friche Belle de Mai, Marseille), Chris is deeply exploring themes of liberty in her live performance.
Chris’s world embodies the values of a queer independent artist. With a definitely pop direction and an energetic backdrop, Confuse resonates beyond traditional boundaries.
MUSIC
2024
MUSIC VIDEOS
LIVE SESSION
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GI-LO
Belgium
(Industrial Techno)
BOOKING
Coline Rouche
holycoco.mgmt@gmail.com
Gi-Lo is the solo project of the multi-instrumentalist of the French techno-punk duo Bracco. In this project, the artist doubles down on the industrial and techno character of his previous productions.
Fruit of his collaboration with photographer Laurianne Bixhain and author Chloé Chignell, and further evidence of his penchant for hybrid projects,
The Day Begins With a Loud Boom is the artist's 1st EP. Incisive and sharp, its blend of acid rhythms with raw melodies offers a narrative at once dense and threatening.
In its oscillations between the suffocating anxieties of a pre-dominant system of production and the mirage of serenity, it conveys emotions which are ambivalent, even contradictory, but above all complex.
MUSIC
2023
REVIEWS
Three tracks of sticky, invasive, toxic electronics by the percussionist/electronic musician who is half of Bracco. He truly tears it up no matter the project. The Day Begins with a Loud Boom is a 25 cm vinyl released in a limited edition of 300 copies by Rescue+Return Records, and comes with a booklet, a project by the artist Laurianne Bixhain with a text by Chloé Chignell.
Les Inrocks
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Three tracks of sticky, invasive, toxic electronics by the percussionist/electronic musician who is half of Bracco. He truly tears it up no matter the project. The Day Begins with a Loud Boom is a 25 cm vinyl released in a limited edition of 300 copies by Rescue+Return Records, and comes with a booklet, a project by the artist Laurianne Bixhain with a text by Chloé Chignell.
Les Inrocks
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IN CASE OF FIRE
France/Australia
(Pop, No Wave Riot, Grrrrl Hip Hop)
BOOKING :
etienne@rescuereturn.com
IN CASE OF FIRE is a multi-souled collective with voices embodied in a Franco-Australian musical duo.
Two classically trained musicians, they were sitting in the back of a tour bus, back-up singers to some dude (not just any dude, but an important figure in the history of this spontaneous awakening).
That's when they heard the song "Boss Ass Bitch" by PTAF playin' on the radio and said, "yo dude! let's go solo, maybe we got somethin to say." So they did, and this is that.
Their first single ICOF introduces LOOSY and XRIS' call for more lovin' for Mother Earth and her people alike.
Their second single MORE ORGASMS is a feminist banshee cry for an army of shewolves and witch mothers tired of letting the world suckle at the teat for free.
Pulling from 70s UK New Wave and 80's New York Punk Rock and 90's LA Hip Hop, IN CASE OF FIRE is a new sound, holding beats to your neck like a sharp stiletto, demanding equality, environmental protection, and an end to gender exploitation, and whatever the hell else you've got in your pockets.
MUSIC
Pussy In The Sun - Confuse & Etienne Etienne Remix feat. Miss Chuckles
[SINGLE]
2023
[SINGLE]
2023
WANT SOME FRUIT?, [EP]
2023
2023
PUSSY IN THE SUN, [SINGLE]
2023
2023
HIT LIKE A GIRL, [SINGLE]
2021
2021
MORE ORGASMS, [SINGLE], 2021
IN CASE OF FIRE, [SINGLE]
2021
2021
MUSIC VIDEOS :
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OSOO
Australia, Germany, Austria
(Nu-beat, Jazz, lo-fi, Alternative)
OSOO is a music & art collective founded by Merryn Jeann, Kyson & Chris Hill in 2020, thematically representing Movement in Nature and the Feeling of Colors. Shade Under Your Hands LP is the groups first artistic statement, spanning many musical territories from 1960's inspired spiritual jazz, early 2000's beat music, Arthur Russell's lo-fi experiments, traditional south-east asian music and modern pop, all tied together by the stories & melodies of Merryn's vocals.
In collaboration with friends Average Negative.
MUSIC
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BOOKING :
etienne@rescuereturn.com
MINGUSS is the solo project by Tokyo based Japanese female artist/pianist/composer Mami Konishi.
Mami was classically taught on the piano as a child, eventually graduating from the piano department of Toho Gakuen school of music as a young adult. To date, she has released four albums exploring the boundaries of genres, sweeping from pop to club music to electronica, jazz ambient and more recently contemporary music.
After sharing a few weeks ago the first taste from “The Farthest Desert” with “Blue Veil”, collaboration between MINGUSS and her “musical hero”, the late legend Manuel Göttsching, we are extremely happy and honoured to be sharing this album.
"The Farthest Desert" is an ambient record, wave after wave of changing landscapes and sensations, fluctuating in both speed and intensity. Oriental saxophones transporting you to the deserts of West Asia or The Middle East, or simply a desert to be found nowhere but in the imagination. The layers of piano and synthesisers combine and revolve around each other to form vast moving globes, giving the impression of an immense earth rotating and changing, mesmerising and entrancing the listener with it’s ever changing seasons of sound to take the mind to anywhere it wants to go.
MUSIC
The Farthest Desert, [ALBUM]
2018
2018
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BOOKING
etienne@rescuereturn.com
In the intensive care ward of a Parisian hospital, a man in bed « I think ‘God’ is a great name for a solo artist. »
His five-year-old daughter, Lily: « I think ‘Spaceman‘ is better. »
When from out the mud comes a rose, bow to it. When from out a rose comes a man, run from him.
Spaceman is a man from out a rose, from out the mud. Born Stephen Munson, from out the roses of the muds of Colchester, southeast England, he became a legend in the underground punk scene of the 80’s London with his band Living In Texas.
He then became a man, becoming one of the most notorious band managers, living life on the nefarious road, breathing and sucking the love and the fuck, the pain and the death of the road.
After enough of the road, Munson changed yet again. He shed his Christian name. His muddy feet lifted off the ground and he began another life of music, this time from above.
This is Spaceman’s story.
Run from it.
MUSIC
Six Million Miles From Nowhere, [DOUBLE ALBUM]
2023
2023
MUSIC VIDEOS
REVIEWS
"I've always been a bad musician and a fool.”
There are more engaging ways to sell yourself today, but Stephen Munson, a quirky guy from Colchester, Essex, England, has never done anything like everyone else. With Living in Texas, a minor post-punk band, he built a small piece of legend in the 1980s.
Wandering around Paris, he started accumulating songs, sometimes spontaneous, sometimes the result of the moment. Among these twenty-five samples of amateurism elevated to the rank of fine art, SPACEMAN (as he now calls himself) lets the listener decide. For us, it will be JULIE CHRISTIE, a fragile and charming ode to the actress from Far from the Madding Crowd.
From his marginal solitude, Munson flashes starry messages.
Telerama
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POP RADIO
Australia
(Psych Pop)
The Pop Radio story begins with singer-songwriter Alex Halsey’s decision to make a cross-country voyage in his grandfather’s Falcon, with a box trailer full of music gear.
Perth to Sydney via the desert, where he dialled in the Pop Radio sound living by the ocean.
Then from Sydney to the Northern Rivers, where the album was layered to tape from a home studio visited by floodwaters.
Ten thoughtful, fantastical arrangements soundtrack this chapter of self-discovery, which begins and ends with small steps and tiny doors.
“Small Steps, Tiny Doors” out now through Holiday Maker Records & Rescue + Return Records.
MUSIC
2023
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