Tahiti 80 Give French Lessons at SXSW

Ten years have passed since Tahiti 80′s last SXSW. Bringing the French band’s hiatus from Austin, Texas to an end is their newest album, ‘The Past, the Present & the Possible’ — a 11-track offering where frontman Xavier Boyer sings with a Thom Yorke-like sigh to the sounds of a breezy, and often psychedelic, wall of sound behind him.

But, the past aside, Boyer swears that the future is happening right now, as Spinner catches up with him outside of a bar in Austin, following one of Tahiti 80′s SXSW shows. “We’re in another dimension,” Boyer says getting philosophical. “The possible is the interpretation of the past, and the present is what you make out of it — it’s a more poetic way of talking about the future.”

With the future behind them, Boyer and his band — bassist Pedro Resende, multi-instrumentalists Médéric Gontier, Julien Barbagallo, Raphaël Léger and Sylvain Marchand — decided to give us a quick French lesson honing in on the top five things the band has heard most often at SXSW.

“Sometimes SXSW looks like my vision of hell; there is music and people everywhere,” Boyer says. “There was a little less action happening ten years ago, but, actually, in a way it’s so cool; the fact that there are bands everywhere.”

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