Juliette and Jon met in 2019, on the eve of the pandemic. She is from Brussels, an actress and violinist; he is from Bordeaux, a dancer and guitarist. Together, they sing and write songs. Silence Island, the title track, also became a soundtrack of sorts for lockdown life; they wrote it at a friend’s request.

In 2021, they left their home, chose life as street musicians, and spent three years travelling across several European countries where they performed and wrote new material. Back in France, they brought that journey to a close in the corridors of the Paris subway under the “Musiciens du Métro” banner, where they played with growing regularity and named their project Tamise, after light, gold seekers, the river, and even the word “tame”, in the sense of learning to tame and make the world one’s own.

They finally dropped anchor in Bordeaux in 2024. Silence Island, their debut album, recorded with Nicolas Dufournet at Studio MELODIUM in Montreuil will be released by Talitres just before summer. There was no wish here to tamper with what gives the project its character. In the name of authenticity, and to ensure that the voice remains central to the music, the songs were recorded exclusively with travel-sized instruments: a ¾ classical guitar, guitalele, violin, pocket trumpet, bass ukulele, harmonica and kalimba.

Across these songs, Tamise reveals a delicate, poetic folk sound, fragile and luminous, where vocal harmonies, most often in English, sometimes in French, weave closely through the melodies. Their songs speak of love, wounds, travel, and the darker and brighter parts of ourselves. And when one looks at the path they have taken, with the street as their first field of expression, the street as a way to tame the world and be tamed by it in return, one suspects they have no intention of standing still just yet.

Album available for pre-order from the Talitres webstore* or via Bandcamp.

– Blue opaque vinyl, ltd edition.**
– Black vinyl.
– CD digipack 2 panels with booklet.
– Digital.

• Digital : https://bfan.link/silence-island
• Bandcamp: https://bit.ly/tamise-si-bc
• Talitres: https://bit.ly/tamise-si-tal

* 10 % OFF till the end of the pre-order campaign (june 19), black vinyl & CD.
**400 ex only.

Juliette Bertrand: vocals, guitalele, violin, percussion
Jon Debande: vocals, guitar, trumpet, harmonica, bass ukulele, percussion
Cover: Painting, Christine Safa, Montagne triangle (Paxos) II, 2022, Frac Auvergne.

Tracklist : 1. Silence Island – 2. Rise Again – 3. Words I Know – 4. À d’autres que moi – 5. Fair Enough to Die – 6. You’ll Get Used to It – 7. Lightbearer – 8. Lettres fragiles – 9 Les amants fous – 10. Sad Sad Song

The Apartments on tour in France this week. The first time The Apartments have played outside Australia with only Australians in the band—Jeff Crawley on trumpet, Tim Kevin on piano/guitar together with Peter Milton Walsh (voice, guitar).

25.03.26 : ANGERS / Le Chabada (w/ Sweet Gum Tree) – FR
26.03.26 : ROUEN / Le 106(w/ Gaia Banfi) – FR
27.03.26 : METZ / Les Trinitaires (w/ Stranded Horse & Boubacar Cissokho) – FR
29.03.26 : TOURCOING / Le Grand Mix (w/ Maybe Margate) – FR
31.03.26 : PARIS / Petit Bain (w/ Stranded Horse & Boubacar Cissokho) – FR / sold out
01.04.26 : SAINT-NAZAIRE / Le VIP – FR
02.04.26 : ANGOULÊME / Tumulte – FR
03.04.26: BORDEAUX / Fnac, show case acoustique, 18h - FR
03.04.26 : CENON / Le Rocher de Palmer (w/ Tamise) – FR
04.04.26 : VOLVIC / Les Vinzelles – FR / sold out