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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Arial Narrow","sans-serif""><img width="334" height="132" id="_x0000_i1025" src="cid:image006.jpg@01CD1D59.483AA470"></span><b><o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="right" style="text-align:right"><b>For Immediate Release<br>
</b>April 18, 2012<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-size:36.0pt;font-family:"Century Gothic","sans-serif";background:white">CHESTER FRENCH<br>
</span><b><span style="font-size:18.0pt;background:white">PREMIERE VIDEO FOR NEW SINGLE “BLACK GIRLS” TODAY<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-size:20.0pt;background:white">Directed by famed photographer Francesco Carrozzini</span><span style="background:white"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Century Gothic","sans-serif";color:black;background:white">Los Angeles, CA (April 18, 2012)…</span><b><span style="font-family:"Century Gothic","sans-serif";color:black">Chester French</span></b><span style="font-family:"Century Gothic","sans-serif";color:black">
release their first single <b>“Black Girls”</b> from their forthcoming new album. The song features a stark and stunning new video premiering today on
<b>Huffington Post</b></span><span style="font-family:"Century Gothic","sans-serif"">
</span><a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/04/18/chester-french-black-girls-video_n_1433954.html" target="_blank"><b><span style="font-family:"Century Gothic","sans-serif"">here</span></b></a><b><span style="font-family:"Century Gothic","sans-serif";color:black">
</span></b><span style="font-family:"Century Gothic","sans-serif";color:black">and will be the featured video on the re-launch of the brand new updated
<b><a href="http://karmalooptv.com/">KarmaloopTV.com</a></b> website today, as well.<b>
</b>The video is the first for acclaimed Italian photographer </span><a href="http://www.francescocarrozzini.com/"><b><span style="font-family:"Century Gothic","sans-serif"">Francesco Carrozzini</span></b></a><b><span style="font-family:"Century Gothic","sans-serif";color:#0070C0">.</span></b><span style="font-family:"Century Gothic","sans-serif";color:black">
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Century Gothic","sans-serif";color:black">Contributing photographs and covers to
</span><i><span style="font-family:"Century Gothic","sans-serif"">Vanity Fair, Rolling Stone, W, New York, The New Yorker
</span></i><span style="font-family:"Century Gothic","sans-serif"">and <i>L'Uomo Vogue</i>,
<b>Carrozzini</b> is a highly sought after artist who <i>The New York Times</i> commissioned to produce its lauded “</span><a href="http://video.nytimes.com/video/2007/12/03/style/tmagazine/1194817102546/screen-test-natalie-portman.html"><b><span style="font-family:"Century Gothic","sans-serif"">screen
tests</span></b></a><b><u><span style="font-family:"Century Gothic","sans-serif";color:#548DD4">.</span></u></b><u><span style="font-family:"Century Gothic","sans-serif"">"</span></u><span style="font-family:"Century Gothic","sans-serif""> For Chester French’s
video, <b>Carrozzini</b> realizes in striking elegance an unapologetic portrayal of contemporary love.<b><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Century Gothic","sans-serif"">“The video’s purpose is to celebrate the female form, the beauty of black women, interracial and same sex love,”
<b>Carrozzini</b> says. “We approached it with simplicity, trying to make the images speak for themselves in the arch of the very simple story told.”<span style="color:black"> This compliments
<b>Chester French’s </b>bold and unabashed lyrics, among them: “</span>This ain’t no fetish / Ain’t objectifying no one / I reject your deconstruction of my taste.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Century Gothic","sans-serif"">The two women engaging in the video are<b>
<span style="color:black">Rie Rasmussen</span></b><span style="color:black"> (writer/director/producer of
<u>Human Zoo</u>, a 2009 Berlin Film Festival select, and the face of Gucci under director Tom Ford) and
<b>Jodie Smith</b> (Levi’s Campaign). “<b>Black Girls</b>” is produced by <b>Kori Shadrick</b>.</span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-family:"Century Gothic","sans-serif";color:black">The song leads up
<b>Chester French’</b>s upcoming June release (K-LP / Karmaloop Records), and is the band’s first single since their 2009 album
<u>Love The Future</u>, which was <span style="background:white">described by <i>
Rolling Stone</i> as “</span></span><span style="font-family:"Century Gothic","sans-serif"">a collection of pop songs with
<b>Brian Wilson</b> melodies, early-<b>Beck</b> humor and synth beats that celebrates romance over digital-crisp surf pop.” The mag declared
<b>Chester French</b> an artist to watch, as did <i>SPIN</i> and countless others.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Century Gothic","sans-serif";color:black">C</span><span style="font-family:"Century Gothic","sans-serif";background:white">omprising singer and songwriter
<b>D.A. Wallach</b> and multi-instrumentalist and composer <b>Max Drummey</b>, <b>
Chester French</b> </span><span style="font-family:"Century Gothic","sans-serif"">brings<span style="color:black;background:white"> together classic songwriting and pop hooks with adventurous, experimental arrangements. The group has drawn comparisons to everyone
from <b>Weezer </b>to <b>The Gorillaz</b>, and has worked with a diverse array of collaborators including
<b>Janelle Monae</b>, <b>Pharrell</b>, <b>Rick Ross</b>, and <b>Travis Barker</b>.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Century Gothic","sans-serif";color:black;background:white">In 2010, D.A. and Max moved to D.A.’s hometown in Wisconsin and began working on their forthcoming album, which approaches their typically melodic pop
songwriting from a more visceral, electronic and emotionally unvarnished perspective. Entirely self-written and self-produced, the album is a sonically dense and lyrically direct window into the minds of two unconventional young artists coming to terms with
materialism, race, love, and other existentially vexing matters. <b>“Black Girls”
</b>exemplifies this new direction, and invites listeners and viewers to reconsider the categories by which we think about each other in life, love, and art.</span><span class="description"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%">“With its watery keyboards, minor key melody, and poor-little-rich-girl lyrics, the band brings the smoky pop genius of the zombies oohing and aahing
back to life.” <b>– <img border="0" width="94" height="19" id="Picture_x0020_8" src="cid:image003.jpg@01CD1D58.B05BB4A0"><span class="description"><o:p></o:p></span></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%">“Painstakingly crafted self-aware pop songs…for the duo, musical boundaries are just imaginary fencing”
<b><img border="0" width="53" height="18" id="Picture_x0020_5" src="cid:image004.jpg@01CD1D58.B05BB4A0"></b></span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;color:blue"><img border="0" width="63" height="125" id="Picture_x0020_1" src="cid:image005.png@01CD1D58.B05BB4A0"></span><span style="font-size:14.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-size:14.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><span style="font-family:"Century Gothic","sans-serif"">“Black Girls” is now<span style="color:#1F497D">
<a href="http://bit.ly/IxXbvN">available on iTunes</a>.<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-size:14.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Century Gothic","sans-serif""><a href="http://www.chesterfrench.com">www.chesterfrench.com</a><span class="description">
<br>
</span><a href="http://www.twitter.com/dachesterfrench">twitter.com/dachesterfrench</a><br>
<a href="http://www.facebook.com/chesterfrench">www.facebook.com/chesterfrench</a><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Century Gothic","sans-serif""> <a href="http://www.karmalooptv.com/">http://www.karmalooptv.com/</a></span></b><span class="MsoHyperlink"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Century Gothic","sans-serif""><a href="https://mail.pressherepublicity.com/owa/redir.aspx?C=48b0a4eb051542429da9523a4b4d336c&URL=http%3a%2f%2fwww.francescocarrozzini.com" target="_blank">www.francescocarrozzini.com</a></span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-size:14.0pt"><br>
</span><b>For More Information:<o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" align="center" style="text-align:center">Jennie Boddy or Derek Sherron<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" align="center" style="text-align:center">PRESS HERE<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" align="center" style="text-align:center">p: <a href="tel:212.246.2640" target="_blank">
<span style="font-size:9.0pt">212.246.2640</span></a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" align="center" style="text-align:center">e: <a href="mailto:jennie@pressherepublicity.com" target="_blank">
<span style="font-size:9.0pt">jennie@pressherepublicity.com</span></a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" align="center" style="text-align:center"><u><span style="font-size:9.0pt;color:blue"><a href="mailto:derek@pressherepublicity.com">derek@pressherepublicity.com</a></span></u><o:p></o:p></p>
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