Since this morning at 00:01, TRACES has been available on platforms. With this first full-length album, Nîmes-based Delon d’Aleis moves away from the simple club format for a melodic and melancholic house music influenced by The Cure, his long studio nights, and twenty years of electronic culture.
An intimate and melodic album, crafted for months in his Nîmes studio at Carreau de Lanes. Gregory Delon from Nîmes has long belonged to the local electronic music landscape, since his high school years at Dhuoda where he played the guitar. Before TRACES, there were the first turntables purchased in 1999, a maxi single released in Germany in 2004, and years of involvement in the Animé association, where he was both a member and president. With the association, electronic music took over the Jardins de la Fontaine, the amphitheaters, and the Chapitre square.
Mundillo
As a communication manager at the opening of Paloma, a producer, DJ, organizer of Techno Aperitifs, Costières Sonores, and Pic Sonore, the 49-year-old from Nîmes looks at music from every angle. His album marks a turning point. Far from the simple club-sized maxi, the album seeks long listening. Deep house, Balearic warmth, organic grooves. Artists from the UK, Spain, the US, Canada, and Latin America lend their voices to the album. “I spent almost four months in the studio,” the producer confesses. In the room set up at his home in Nîmes, he sometimes worked for fourteen consecutive hours. “At 4 in the morning, I was in my studio because I had found an idea. In four notes, you know it’s going to be a track.”
The common thread? A soft melancholy that the artist cultivates on all the tracks. A melancholy tinged with positivity, inherited from The Cure, his favorite band (tattooed on his arm alongside the Pixies) that the Nîmes native will see at the end of July during their three concerts at the amphitheaters, as part of the Nîmes Festival. TRACES also includes an English cover of a Gérard Blanc song, “There must be a woman.” It’s his favorite song.
Next, he takes the stage. On May 20, during the feria, Delon will be at the Costières de Nîmes bodega during Mundillo’s private evening for construction professionals, in front of 1,200 guests. Heriberto Cruz, featured on the album, will join him. An unreleased track, Mundillo, created for the Nîmes feria, will be performed live. More dates will follow, including a Techno Aperitif at the Moulin de Langlade on July 10 and Family Picnic in Montpellier on July 31. TRACES, is not just a record, it’s the new chapter of a 100% Nîmes journey, from homemade flyers on Photoshop to dance floors, from heritage sites to platforms. Happy listening!
Find the album on Spotify here
