When asked "what style of music do you make?" Lucien Kimono never quite knows what to say. Pop? Chanson Française? Jazz-funk? Electronic music? Why not all of them at once, in a unique and personal blend? Indeed, his musical color is instantly recognizable: a certain way of wrapping his melodies in a blue veil of cinematic nostalgia, a mix of edgy modernity and sweet vintage textures, often pulsated by powerful rhythms. It all began in 2016 with a first EP under the alias "Lucien & The Kimono Orchestra" on Cracki Records, which immediately garnered attention and quickly amassed millions of listens. In 2023, after 3 EPs, numerous collaborations (Folamour, Jimmy Whoo, Moodoïd, Lord Apex, Ian Isiah, NxxxxxS, Mézigue, Flabaire...), many concerts, and a piano-solo album, Lucien Kimono takes a turn by choosing to release 1000 VIES, his next opus on Avancée, a new label he creates with his friends from the music world to give himself the means for his creative ambitions. His name evolves: Lucien & The Kimono Orchestra becomes Lucien Kimono, to better describe a rather personal and introspective project: radically more intimate, vast in its musical influences, and entirely sung in French, his mother tongue. June 2024, Lucien comes back with BARDENAS BARDENAS, an hispanic-influenced EP illustrated by a 42min musical road-movie shot in the desert with his director friend Simon Depardon.