Carte Blanche Rebeka Warrior
For over twenty years, Rebeka Warrior has been building a body of work where music, poetry, performance and image all meet. From Sexy Sushi to Mansfield.TYA then Kompromat, she’s shaped a world from which a few notes only are enough to reveal her very recognizable universe.
Born in Saint Nazaire, schooled at the Beaux-Arts of Nantes, Julia Lanoë, her legal name, first devoted herself to painting before sound and writing imposed themselves as her main creative outlets.
From the beginning of the years 2000, she made a lasting mark on the French independent scene with several major projects that demonstrate a capacity to change tones and moods: Sexy Sushi, an electro-punk adventure, as radical as it is iconoclastic; Mansfield.TYA, a duo formed with Carla Pallone, blending songwriting, dark folk, and electronic experimentation; and then Kompromat, created with Vitalic, where techno, cold wave, and industrial pulses collide. Through these various formations, she explores an artistic territory shaped by melancholy, desire, identity issues and an affirmed taste for the margins. Her work asserts total artistic freedom, fed by literature as well as by musical countercultures, feminism and queer culture. In 2020 she founded WARRIORECORDS, an independent label conceived as a creation ground open to sonic experimentations and artists sharing the same aesthetic rigor. This activity as a producer and facilitator prolongs a path where transmission plays a significant role. In recent years, this sensibility found a natural extension in cinema and the performing arts. She’s composed the scores for Paula by Angela Ottobah, À mon seul désir (To My One Desire) by Lucie Borleteau, Foreign Language by Claire Burger, and Queens of Drama by Alexis Langlois, as well as for the series Split by Iris Brey. Her world has also crossed paths with several directors, notably Bertrand Mandico, who in 2019 directed the Niemand music video for Kompromat. In 2025 she published Toutes les Vies (All the Lives), a first book haunted by grief where her writing found a new ground for accomplishment. One more step on a journey that has consistently fostered dialogue between disciplines.
Rebeka Warrior's invitation to present a carte blanche project takes on its full meaning when she sums up this special connection with cinema: "I prefer to draw inspiration from film or literature rather than from music itself when I compose."
Born in Saint Nazaire, schooled at the Beaux-Arts of Nantes, Julia Lanoë, her legal name, first devoted herself to painting before sound and writing imposed themselves as her main creative outlets.
From the beginning of the years 2000, she made a lasting mark on the French independent scene with several major projects that demonstrate a capacity to change tones and moods: Sexy Sushi, an electro-punk adventure, as radical as it is iconoclastic; Mansfield.TYA, a duo formed with Carla Pallone, blending songwriting, dark folk, and electronic experimentation; and then Kompromat, created with Vitalic, where techno, cold wave, and industrial pulses collide. Through these various formations, she explores an artistic territory shaped by melancholy, desire, identity issues and an affirmed taste for the margins. Her work asserts total artistic freedom, fed by literature as well as by musical countercultures, feminism and queer culture. In 2020 she founded WARRIORECORDS, an independent label conceived as a creation ground open to sonic experimentations and artists sharing the same aesthetic rigor. This activity as a producer and facilitator prolongs a path where transmission plays a significant role. In recent years, this sensibility found a natural extension in cinema and the performing arts. She’s composed the scores for Paula by Angela Ottobah, À mon seul désir (To My One Desire) by Lucie Borleteau, Foreign Language by Claire Burger, and Queens of Drama by Alexis Langlois, as well as for the series Split by Iris Brey. Her world has also crossed paths with several directors, notably Bertrand Mandico, who in 2019 directed the Niemand music video for Kompromat. In 2025 she published Toutes les Vies (All the Lives), a first book haunted by grief where her writing found a new ground for accomplishment. One more step on a journey that has consistently fostered dialogue between disciplines.
Rebeka Warrior's invitation to present a carte blanche project takes on its full meaning when she sums up this special connection with cinema: "I prefer to draw inspiration from film or literature rather than from music itself when I compose."
