Michelle Blades is a Mexican-Panamanian artist born into a family salsa musicians. At the age of eighteen, she moved to Arizona and started working with local independent label River Jones Music recording her first EPs and albums. At the same time she started North Dakota with her friends Emily Hobeheidarn, Mo Neuharth (Numb Bats, Nanami Ozone) and playing noisier shows in the desert scene.After a handful of tours in Europe Michelle settled in Paris, working with Midnight Special Records and releasing all her material with the label. In 2015 her first LP in France « ATARAXIA » was released on Midnight Special Records , the tour took her to UK, Germany, Italy, USA and France. Around that time that she mixed her influences from her various projects, inspired by Cate Le Bon, Frank Zappa, Delia Derbyshire and the 70’s prog and glam era.Ever since recording songs on GarageBand in Miami and collaborating in Arizona she hasn’t stopped moving and creating music. She will release her next LP recorded with her band in an analog studio in the south of France, melting psychedelic compositions with spaced out barroque-y folk arrangements into the sounds of a restless wanderer.