Great Men With No Fear

// FOLK //

Behind this project name in the plural, only one man, Frédéric Laval, 28-year-old Bordeaux native and songwriter now in exile in Brussels.

The Belgian Capital is for him the perfect breeding ground for introspection, for taking a necessary and beneficial distance from his hectic daily life and from a society that is constantly in panic. He observes all this and translates his emotions into sounds, metaphors, little stories tinged with folk melodies that are necessarily a little melancholic.

Modesty in the voice, sensitivity in the writing and behind a raw, mostly acoustic guitar, layers of electronica arrangements sprinkled over everything from his home studio in Brussels.

He gathered his compositions in an album entitled « Old Loved Ones » released in early 2020, a small collection of nine titles as disarming of beauty as luminous of hope, like his first single ‘Poems from Beirut’ which tells the story of…