Me as a person

Heya, I’m Kesis, but in real life people call me Tristan.

I was born in France, in the south.

I have not been moving much besides my trips to Greece, Italia a few times, Spain a bunch, England and French DOM-TOM Islands ; but I love discovering new cultures.

I’m kind of an introvert, all I do is stay locked in my room and make music, even tho this whole thing seems to turn around when I’m on stage (with other bands), where I become a totally different person, I don’t know why, maybe it’s like people who start talking very much when they are stressed.

I’m fluent in French and English but I also like to learn new languages, at least until I have a decent travelling level, such as Spanish, Russian and Mandarin Chinese.

Anyway, in a few words : I’m a chill guy who likes to jam when the occasion arises.

Me as an artist

I started music very young, with piano, and kind of against my will to be honest. All I wanted to do back then was play with stuff, break my leg during a stairway fall, and try to drink the glasses in the bar of my parents without them noticing.

When I grew up enough to be able to tell what I liked or not, I decided to change instrument, I went for guitar, but obviously I ran into this dumb mystical law of the universe that says that “you can’t learn electric guitar if you don’t learn classical first”. I don’t know why everyone says that and this is the dumbest thing I ever heard but ok.

So I went to classical guitar classes and… well it kinda made me love guitar, and hate it at the same time. Very unusual experience. After a few years I asked to “upgrade” to electric guitar. And that’s when they told me that I was “Too young for electric guitar”. Like what now? I was around 12 years old when I asked that, and I could see 6 years old Asian kids playing guitar on YouTube, but me? I was too young? Also these 6 years old are probably still better players than me right now so, yeah.

If electric guitar wasn’t gonna happen I needed to try something else : Violin.

Violon was really cool actually, and also incredibly hard. So I stopped because I’m a weak mind that can’t accept hard work ; and I didn’t felt like training 40h a day lingling style. And also I had to take solfège (fancy French word for music theory, or, well actually maybe you can say “solfège” in English too idk) which is the worst thing in the whole music repertoire, damn I hate music theory.

Anyway, after this sweet violin moment, I was finally old enough to learn my holy grail, the reason of my existence : electric guitar. Finally.

I played it for 10 years, as long as I knew my best friend (not talking about my guitar, surprisingly I was able to have actual friends that really liked me, even tho the exact number at the time was one, and he started this friendship hating me. But that’s a story for another time. And if you read this and recognize yourself, best friend, know that you are the worst, and also, I love you ❤)

BACK TO ME :

In the mean time of my guitar journey, I started getting into electronic music, thanks to Daft Punk and Kavinsky mainly, I dove deep into the world of plug-ins that don’t install properly, softwares that crashe before you remember to save and the unspeakable frustration of nobody listening to that new track you took 2 month to put together.

So, me being me, what did I do when I realized that all my productions were sh*t? I gave up 🤷‍♂️

Until I actually started being a person capable of will to live 2 years ago (written in like 2020), at which point I started Kesis.

Probably one of my proudest projects, besides my weirds undergrounds metal and poppunk bands on the side.

So I started to work on it, lame song after lame song, until I reached “minimum bearable music quality”, at which point I uploaded 8/10, my first EP.

I was still experimenting back then, and am still doing so now.

I thank everyone I met on my musical journey so far, and I hope you enjoyed reading this insane bloc of text that I barely formatted to be nice to read.

Thank you so much, and have a great night on the road ❤