Breaking away from the masked Rennes trio Güz II, Jean-Baptiste Lebrun and Benjamin Baccara set off together on a duo escapade into territories far more pop, sugary and electronic than those they usually inhabit. With synthesiser, sequencers, guitar and repeated vocals, they nevertheless remain committed to unstable balance and the autonomy of the absurd, crushing the codes, forms, automatisms and listening habits of pop. Playful, minimal, strange and irresistibly catchy all at once, Kafka Buddha enchants. To be discovered on their first EP, U Pi (2026).
Breaking away from the masked Rennes trio Güz II, Jean-Baptiste Lebrun and Benjamin Baccara set off together on a duo escapade into territories far more pop, sugary and electronic than those they usually inhabit. With synthesiser, sequencers, guitar and repeated vocals, they nevertheless remain committed to unstable balance and the autonomy of the absurd, crushing the codes, forms, automatisms and listening habits of pop. Playful, minimal, strange and irresistibly catchy all at once, Kafka Buddha enchants. To be discovered on their first EP, U Pi (2026).
BIOGRAPHY
> KAFKA BUDDHA (FR)
Creative collaborators for around twenty years, Jean-Baptiste Lebrun and Benjamin Baccara first worked together in the still-active instrumental Rennes trio Güz II, in many different forms and contexts since 2008. Originally trained respectively as guitarist and violinist, they gradually widened their range through a succession of projects and groups — notably JB Lebrun with the puppet theatre company Les Yeux Creux, and Benjamin Baccara with Crabe Vert, his street-electro solo project, which was programmed for six concerts around his album Bisque de rage at Les Tombées de la Nuit in 2024. In 2025, they felt the desire to create a new repertoire centred more on the electronic instruments — synthesisers, sequencers, all kinds of effects — that they both practise alongside their other work: a kind of duo escape into more overtly pop and electronic territory. Their five-track EP U Pi (February 2026), self-directed and self-produced by the duo and mixed by JB Lebrun, offers a first glimpse of their universe, which they continue to stretch and enrich live.
