Wax Tailor and Friends 11/12/17 Spaceland

French DJ and Beatmaster came to Hamden with a couple of friends to bump on a chilly November night. Wax Tailor operates two turntables and an etch-a-sketch like sampler gadget that spits odd dialog from what sounds like 1950s American film clips. With a trippy video backdrop, WT scratched and sampled his way through tunes. One song had this mournful cello passage, another took clips from a Nina Simone song. His two friends were very distinct. A young female chanteuse ( I've always wanted to use the  word chanteuse, and a young French female coo-er gyrating in front of WTs beats with a name like Charlotte Seviegny seems like the perfect descriptor) sang and bopped to the music. Another friend was a young black male rapper, his rhymes coated the beats in a very different and complimentary fashion as the girl. The singers were never on stage at the same time. These three incarnations of the sound yielded three completely different takes on the music. Recent release By Any Beats Necessary is great. The show ended with WTs patented take on Que Sera Sera.