Team Ghost | |
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Background information | |
Origin | Paris, France |
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Years active | 2009–present |
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Website | www.teamghostmusic.com |
Members | Nicolas Fromageau Christophe Guerrin Benoit de Villeneuve Pierre Blanc Felix Delacroix |
Team Ghost is a French electronic music group created by Nicolas Fromageau, co-founder of M83, which he left in 2004.
In Paris with the help of Jean-Philippe Talaga (who is the band A&R today) and bandmate Christophe Guérin, Nicolas Fromageau founded Team Ghost in 2007. the band released their first EP in April 2010 First act to be coined as “cold gaze” by the NME (for their mixture of Cold Wave and Shoegaze), Team Ghost released the EP "You Never Did Anything Wrong to Me", in 2010 through the English label Sonic Cathedral. In the fall of that year, they followed it with the EP "Celebrate What You Can't See" produced by Villeneuve. This collaboration resulted in Benoît de Villeneuve to join the band as composer together with bassist Pierre Blanc and drummer Félix Delacroix.
After a series of concerts given in Paris, the group was the opening act of the European tour for the Canadians Crystal Castles. Team Ghost has also played at several festivals in the United Kingdom during the summer of 2010 such as the Offset Festival of London and the festival Rockness in Scotland. The two first EPs were released as "We Will Shine" in Japan at the fall of 2011
Team Ghost released their first album Rituals on March 2013 and the first single is called "Dead Film Star". They went on tour in April 2013 in Europe and in New York on June.
On December 2, 2016 they released their third, self titled and self released album, preceded by the single "The Riser".