Hannah Miette

Hannah Miette is the moniker of a drummer from Lyon who plays with a constellation of more or less hybrid folk musicians – Raoul Vignal, Fránçois & the Atlas Mountains, This is the Kit, Blumi, Rozi Plain, Claire Days…

He’s called that because he really liked Hannah, and he really likes dogs. And because that’s how he’s named, through others, and maybe that’s how he likes it. Just as he likes his songs to be illuminated by the voices and instruments of others – Blumi, Rozi Plain, Kate Stables, Quelque, Margaux Delatour, François Atlas are all involved in his first album. Or that her songs develop under the watchful eye of Anne-Laure Etienne and Emmanuel Chevilliat, who direct all Hannah Miette’s music videos.

The tracks smell of wood, the wood around the house where he lives, the wood in his house, flooded with snare drums, the wood of voices and clarinets. And they create space, in tempos, between phrases and melodic lines, breaths before resuming. The wood, and the air above the river.

The tracks are in English and French, sung or instrumental, performed by musicians with very different timbres and personalities. But deep down, you can hear the care taken in choosing all the sounds and textures; the discreet centrality of the drums; the repetitive, grouped tracks, composed in the solitude of a bedroom, breaking up at certain points, full of emotion; deep down, you can hear Lucien Chatin’s hidden, shining heart at work.