General Elektriks - Parker Street
(CD/Digital) Elektriks Collection/Discograph (Europe/Japan)/Quannum Projects (North America) 2011-10-18
General Elektriks is the brainchild of French vintage keyboard player/ composer/ singer/ producer Hervé Salters. Blending keyboard funk, oldschool pop and hip hop beats in his home studio in the San Francisco Bay Area, Salters has released 3 albums as General Elektriks: Cliquety Kliqk (2003), Good City For Dreamers (2009) and this new one, Parker Street(2011). RV quickly became the go-to Parisian for "vintage sound", scoring session work with Femi Kuti, -M-, and DJ Mehdi, among others, before leaving in 1999 to relocate to the US. In 2009 he was also featured in the classic hip hop compilation selected by Paris DJs alumni Djouls & Loik, It's The New Hip Hop Thing Volume 1. The new album Parker Street was released mid October by cuting-edge French label Discograph in Europe and Japan and by Quannum Projects in North America. Parker Street is the most successful and most dense of General Eletriks albums, filled with multiple influences and perfused by the energy and experience of live concerts.
