"Remarkable!" – Steve Barker, The Wire Magazin
"Transformational wizardry… deeply lysergic and consistently inventive." – Brainwashed
"It sounds like listening to a reggae band stationed on the other side of a crowded gymnasium—and through an interdimensional portal. A unique addition to a unique [Sub Rosa] catalog." – Bandcamp Daily
"It sounds like listening to a reggae band stationed on the other side of a crowded gymnasium—and through an interdimensional portal. A unique addition to a unique [Sub Rosa] catalog." – Bandcamp Daily
“Instability, a chemist would say, has two forms: fragility and explosiveness.” – Alfred Jarry
Yannick Franck’s avant-dub project MT Gemini fuses Jamaican genres such as ska, rocksteady and dancehall with unorthodox electroacoustic explorations. The project does not operate through tradition or revival, but through logics of deconstruction, mutation and fabulation. In this process, obscured aspects re-emerge from entirely different angles, altered and reconfigured.
MT Gemini favors raw sound material, often classic rocksteady tunes or popular dancehall songs, manipulated and reorganized into dense collages and overflowing accumulations. Over time, the music builds psycho-acoustic tension, unfolding as potent, ritualistic spaces.
Drawing from pataphysics, defined by Alfred Jarry as “the science of imaginary solutions to actual problems”, MT Gemini stages collisions between genres, techniques and cultures that rarely communicate, questioning conventional cultural representations and boundaries through unapologetic cross-pollination and radical sonic expression.
MT Gemini’s work has been praised by The Wire and Brainwashed, and released on the legendary avant-garde label Sub Rosa, as well as on Antibody, the left-field imprint founded by Franck himself. His debut album Just Like A River was listed among The Wire’s “10 Records of the Year” in the dub category.
Live, MT Gemini takes the form of heavily psycho-active audiovisual performances, featuring visuals created by Franck himself, often in collaboration with performer Shayli Harrison and digital artist Olga Fedorova. These performances blend raw intensity with mind-altering shockwaves. He has shared the stage with artists such as Nik Colk Void, Drew McDowall, Ghost Dubs, Croatian Amor and Shit and Shine, and made a notable live debut at Café Oto.
In February 2026, MT Gemini's new LP Hawk Deh Near will be released on Belgian label Vlek.
https://yannickfranck.bandcamp.com/album/just-like-a-river
technical rider (to download PDF, click right + select save link as)
hi resolution press picture (to download PNG, click right + select save link as)
artist picture by Allan Snon
live pictures by Sara Hamedi
