Academie's lyrics & chords

With their haunting debut single Sulphur, wife Jean-Louise Nel and husband Alex Parker, launched their Johannesburg based band Academie. Multi-instrumentalists Jean-Louise (Dear Reader, Fulka) and Alex (ISO, Tumi Molekane and Ross Jack) are both established musicians in the South African music scene. Academie represents the synthesis of two evolved artistic sensibilities. Their music is laced with the whispered melancholy of a deferred nostalgia. It feels ephemeral, crystalline as it dissolves and reconstitutes itself in a cyclical aesthetic of...read more