Biography
Bastien Keb produces a mostly slow-tempo strain of psychedelia that calls to mind the results of an audio technician suddenly granted free run of an experimental academy’s rehearsal spaces. Across four intentionally relaxed long-players issued between Dinking in the Shadows of Zizou in 2015 and Organ Recital in 2022, the British artist merges jazz, soul, funk, and vintage film-score touches inside a hip-hop framework.
Now living in Royal Leamington Spa, Keb—born Sebastian Jones—works as producer, songwriter, vocalist, and multi-instrumentalist, with guitar as his central tool alongside drums, bass, keyboards, trumpet, and flute. His first outing arrived on One-Handed Music in 2015 via Dinking in the Shadows of Zizou, an album that quickly drew notice from BBC DJ Gilles Peterson. After supplying remixes for Submotion Orchestra, Paper Tiger, Pedestrian, and Quiet Dawn, he moved to the First Word label in 2017 for the rougher yet brighter 22.02.85. A digital-only Midnight Nasties EP appeared on + Fours in 2018, after which Keb began a sustained association with Gearbox Records. His third album, The Killing of Eugene Peeps, surfaced there in 2020 as an imaginary soundtrack shaped by giallo thrillers, French New Wave pictures, and 1970s crime films. Gearbox followed with Organ Recital in 2022, a set marked by a hazier and more solitary mood.
Now living in Royal Leamington Spa, Keb—born Sebastian Jones—works as producer, songwriter, vocalist, and multi-instrumentalist, with guitar as his central tool alongside drums, bass, keyboards, trumpet, and flute. His first outing arrived on One-Handed Music in 2015 via Dinking in the Shadows of Zizou, an album that quickly drew notice from BBC DJ Gilles Peterson. After supplying remixes for Submotion Orchestra, Paper Tiger, Pedestrian, and Quiet Dawn, he moved to the First Word label in 2017 for the rougher yet brighter 22.02.85. A digital-only Midnight Nasties EP appeared on + Fours in 2018, after which Keb began a sustained association with Gearbox Records. His third album, The Killing of Eugene Peeps, surfaced there in 2020 as an imaginary soundtrack shaped by giallo thrillers, French New Wave pictures, and 1970s crime films. Gearbox followed with Organ Recital in 2022, a set marked by a hazier and more solitary mood.
Albums
Singles
