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Jairic Unleashes Electrifying Single and Video ‘Stick Figaro’
Dynamic artist, producer, and storyteller Jairic returns with his explosive new single ‘Stick Figaro’ — released 10 October 2025 via Rich Air Music, accompanied by a visually arresting music video directed by Bastien Lablanc.
‘Stick Figaro’ is an unflinching fusion of cinematic sound design, bold lyricism, and raw energy. Heavy trap percussion collides with riotous, distorted guitars as Jairic delivers slick, fiery verses that explore chaos, control, and the shifting lines between power and vulnerability. A melodic bridge, lifted by female vocals, provides a moment of calm before the track surges back into its defiant finale — a musical storm of rhythm and intent.
The music video mirrors this intensity with gritty, nocturnal visuals — roses, stark contrasts, and surreal cityscapes evoking themes of obsession, pursuit, and transformation. It’s a visceral pairing that encapsulates Jairic’s distinctive artistry, where music and film converge to tell a single, striking story.
“Stick Figaro is built on reversal,” Jairic explains. “At first it feels like I’m the one running, but when the hook comes back you realize I’m the one chasing. That’s the heartbeat of the track — chaos turning into control, the hunted becoming the hunter. It’s raw energy, heavy and unfiltered, but underneath it’s also a mirror — every bar a spark, every line a fire.”
Currently based in Cannes, France, and born in Detroit, Michigan, Jairic’s creative universe is as international as it is personal. His music — entirely self-written, self-produced, and self-performed — blends modern luxury with underground grit. With nearly 2 million streams across platforms and standout performances in France, Italy, Prague, and the U.S., including exclusive sets at Château Les Alouettes and Villa Balbiano, Jairic continues to redefine what it means to be a truly independent artist.
Drawing from influences like Nas, Wu-Tang Clan, Detroit’s underground, classic funk, and 60s rock, Jairic crafts a sound that feels both cinematic and streetwise — a reflection of his dual roots in music and film. Fans of Eminem, Machine Gun Kelly, and Macklemore will find in ‘Stick Figaro’ the same balance of ferocity, narrative depth, and unapologetic style.
Michele Ducci has unveiled the second single, ‘Woman Like You’, from his forthcoming album and animated film ‘Snail in the Clouds’.
‘Woman Like You’ pairs bright distorted electric guitar with an electronic drumbeat, adding in Ducci’s soulful vocals and a catchy uplifting chorus with Letizia Mandoleisi’s sweet vocal harmonies. A vintage organ pedalboard operated by Ducci simultaneously generates chords, bass and rhythm, like a one-man band. Shane Kennedy (Girl in the Year Above) joins in on guitar. Simon Milner (Is Tropical, Ysing) recorded and produced the track at his 4am Studios in London.
The album and film tell the story of a planet called ‘Snail’, inhabited by hybrids – primarily a mixture between scorpions, snails and humans – who lead a life according to the style of Pythagoras, devoted to music. There is also a cloud man named Agostos, a writer of musical operettas, who together with a talking smoke machine called Doctor Subtilis, begins to kill all hybrids, targeting in particular the hybrid musician Diodoros and his band, in an effort to steal the ark of melodies, an ancient ship that allows the whole planet to survive with music and joy.
The video for the single, created and animated by Ducci and Mandoleisi, delves further into the realm of planet ‘Snail’:
Says Ducci, “The ark of melodies, after various attempts, finally starts to work and fly in the planet Snail, while the shady Doc. Sub. and Agostos, with their platoon of soldiers made of foggy smoke, spy the miracle, planning to steal the ark for their evil and tyrannical purposes.”
About the track, Michele says, “I wrote this song for my love Letizia. Love seen from the mind is the sound we make. Sound is the love of matter.
We used a Technics synthesizer organ from a flea market. I tried to find a mood that was right for the song and I started using the bass of the pedal board together with the synth and the drums, and it was magical to hear the song reveal itself all coming from a single instrument. Leti was singing with me and we recorded everything live in one shot. Then we made Shane do the guitar flight, as if he came out of the window. The idea was to maintain disproportions, guitar thrust and synth drum thinness a la Haroumi Hosono, so as to create an estrangement, but naturally: it’s about how I listen, with close up something that captures me in its nuance as element of a larger orchestra somewhere. I’m glad we decided in the studio with Simon to use the layers of arrangement as the close-ups in the cinema; they look like strange enlargements that perch on parts of a mutated orchestra. I’m happy to come back with this love song at a time when everything seems to opt, even my labor in managing the flows of selfishness that have poured out on me while doing this album, for the sound of war. I’m here happy to be able to say that the sound of love always wins as did for me. Snail in the clouds is one of the most important works in my life and I am glad to start from pure love for this album that is my son.”
The album and full-length film will be released on the 5th of June on Monotreme Records.
Michele and Letizia’s previous musical short film, ‘The Great Book of Nature’, is an official selection for the 2026 Venice Shorts Film Festival.
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