Guitarist, composer, arranger and producer all in one, Nicolas Repac is essentially the man working in the shadows. But this is not some kind of artsy posture or the result of excessive shyness. For him, music has very little to do with the tyranny of appearance or the bleak light of the spotlights. Arthur H's alter ego for almost 15 years is always more at ease in the comfortable space of his studio on the heights of Montmartre. Up there, alone with his machines, Repac loves to dive into the night to bring back the ghostly echoes of long forgotten worlds, just like the inspired medium that he is. He's become a master at the subtle art of freely associating samples. His works consists in giving these samples a second musical and poetic life, by reintroducing them into the vibrant murmur of the contemporary melting pot. <p> After the success of his previous album Swing Swing, he's back with with "Black Box", a beautiful musical journey dedicated to all the different shades of the blues. By diving into the source of this mother of all music, Repac rediscovered the uncountable number of realms that were embarked on the traumatic voyage called deportation. He also revealed all these idiomatic territories contaminated by the black magic of this archaic and revolutionary art, by its twelve off-kilter measures and its universal pentatonic scale. Repac has only one idea in mind throughout this record: letting free the raw emotion that is at the heart of the sonic matter he borrows. In his company, machines decidedly have souls!