Yolk Records

Clément PETIT is, first and foremost, an avid cellist hungry for now sounds and artistic encounters. He is eager for collaborations and new musical contexts, and enjoys mixing things up to throw the listener off-guard with his eclectic creations.

He is one of those musicians constantly seeking to reinvent their instruments by developing techniques, using new musical languages and rewriting the rules.

Raised in a diverse and community-based Parisian banlieu, he would be immersed in a world of Afro-American, Caribbean and electronic music, before throwing himself into contemporary and improvised music.

Petit’s vision of music is very large, he would claim these influences as his own and as such he has his own highly personal sound: he knocks down the walls of genre and allows the many different sounds to mingle and interact freely.

Whether it be as a cellist, a composer, or a producer, it’s within this optic that he undertakes his projects and his artistic collaborations: Oumou Sangare, Salif Keita, Angélique Kidjo, Aloe Blacc, Ben l’Oncle Soul, Blick Bassy, Msaki, Yael Naim, Piers Faccini, Melissa Laveau, Alani, Naissam Jalal, Blundetto, Lo’Jo, Leïla Martial, Fidel Fourneyron ...