Crayon

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Crayon is a Paris-based producer, songwriter, and visual artist whose music sits somewhere between electronic production, soul, jazz, hip-hop, folk, and intimate leftfield pop. A quiet but influential figure in the Parisian scene, he first built his name through releases on Roche Musique, including Blue Window, Flee, and the 2018 EP Post Blue, shaping a sound full of warm synths, elastic grooves, soft-focus vocals, and late-night emotional detail. He later collaborated with Duñe on Hundred Fifty Roses, a 2020 album that expanded his world into something more fluid and communal, while his two-track Erased Tapes release Misplaced / Ithinkso introduced a more minimal, reflective edge to his production.

Alongside his own work, Crayon has become a sought-after presence within French rap and alternative music, working around artists such as Josman, Dinos, Prince Waly, Laylow, and the wider Walk in Paris circle. His debut full-length album Home Safe, released in 2025, brings many of those threads into a more personal and open-hearted space. Built from Sunday jam sessions, childhood memories, and the idea of home as something both comforting and complicated, the record features voices including Yamê, Tora’s JPL, Rhye, anaiis, ELIZA, FKJ, Zefire, Lossapardo, and Arthur Teboul of Feu! Chatterton. Across his catalogue, Crayon feels less like a producer hiding behind the machinery and more like someone painting with sound: blending texture, rhythm, memory, and collaboration into music that is quietly ambitious, deeply human, and difficult to reduce to one scene or genre.

Home Safe Crayon
album Electronic, indie jazz, indie soul
Strange People Crayon, Rhye
track
Cristaux Liquides Crayon, Swing
track french r&b, french rap
Kill Your Idols Crayon, Lossapardo
track
Diamond Miner Crayon, ELIZA, FKJ
track alternative r&b, Neo-Soul, uk r&b
U & I Crayon, Darius, FKJ, The NightBirds, WAYNE SNOW
track filter house, indie jazz, indie soul, new french touch
Hundred Fifty Roses Crayon, Duñe
album alternate soul, alternative pop, indie jazz
Post Blue Crayon
album alternate soul, alternative jazz