In residence: MT Gemini (Yannick Franck)

MT GEMINI (Yannick Franck, RAUM antibody label)

In 2019, my interest in early ska, boss reggae, rocksteady and dancehall has led me to initiate MT Gemini, a project in which I use Jamaican music as core material.

I quickly came up with a debut LP on Belgian label Sub Rosa, which ended up in the "10 records of the year" list in the dub section of the Wire Magazine.

In another review, Brainwashed (UK) wrote: "Every single one of the pieces is a striking example of transformational wizardly, going beyond mere deconstruction to create something deeply lysergic that is light years away from the raw material that it was birthed from. Moreover, Franck is consistently inventive in his alchemy, studiously avoiding the temptation to repeat the same tricks or head in a direction that has already been explored: each piece is treated like a completely unique foundation for a new vision to organically grow from.”

As I see it, MT Gemini is not dub music per se but rather an incantatory deconstruction of Jamaican tunes that I love, a laboratory grown mixture of aural mutations infused with strangeness, joy and nostalgia. And above all a meditation on alterity.

https://www.facebook.com/mtgeminimusic
https://yannickfrancknoise.blogspot.com/
https://yannickfranck.bandcamp.com/
https://antibodylabel.bandcamp.com/