Oasis Boom
“It’s music that can be danced to if it’s very late, that’s for sure, but it can also be listened to sitting down, I think.
“I love it. Would you like to come and play at my birthday party?”
“Oasis boom in your face and in your soul, thanks for the life points”.
Wild experimental journey
The duo invents a desert rock that calls for dancing, knows techno well, and loves broad, hypnotic melodies that sound familiar to our ears. OASIS BOOM’s sound is freely inspired by Maloya and Mandingo music. Synthesizers are struck with drumsticks, and subway tickets get stuck in guitar strings as if there were sand everywhere. Powerful spins seem to come from afar, others make you smile and recall video game music, melodies unfurl, lull and encompass, jokes sometimes and electronic music lurking.
CACTUS BUS is the name of their only full-length track, a packed bus that crosses the desert at night without stopping. The journey across the dunes lasts between 50 min and 1h20, depending on the weather, with the party car in the middle of the train. We advise you to take water.
These two musicians, very active on the Lyon and Paris scenes, met in 2021. Mélissa plays vibraphone and drums, and enjoys composing, improvising, tinkering, practicing, breaking things down and applying herself. Trained in classical percussion, she plays in The Very Big Experimental Toubifri Orchestra, ARFI, St Sadrill, and with several theater companies.
Vincent Duchosal’s guitar has wandered through Maloya, contemporary jazz, noise and experimental music. He’s got nimble fingers and loves sounds that aren’t too clean. He plays with Trio Meije, Phonem, ZOZIO and the cie la Grande Magouille.
In the beginning, there were eleven pages of riffs and themes written by Mélissa, and a good few hundred hours of improvisations for everyone to invent new ways of playing, new polythmies: the sound of OASIS BOOM. Then, in January 2024, the band emerged from its cellar. People shouted, waddled, jumped, laughed, closed their eyes for a moment and then started up again.
The CACTUS BUS will depart from the 25th star.
See you there.
With kick and sweat.
Mélissa Acchiardi | drums and synthesizer played with drumsticks
Vincent Duchosal | prepared electric guitar
Past gigs
Oasis Boom is one of the 4 winners Jazz Migration #11
OASIS BOOM is one of the 4 winners of # The band's debut album is due in September! This year 90 groups, supported by festivals and venues all over France, applied to Jazz Migration. Nearly 110 programmers listened to the 15 finalist groups and chose four winners from...