Cody Pepper releases debut single

London-based, French artist Pauline Janier is the lead singer and flutist of the band Zebrah, but is also known as her musical alias Cody Pepper. The moniker came about while she was in high school and came up with the name while having dinner with artist SOLDOUT one summer night.

“Cody is great because it’s neither masculine nor feminine, it is morphable. I came up with this not thinking I would ever use it, it was just for fun,” she shares. However at the start of this year, SOLDOUT made the introduction to Brussels-based musician Basile Lacroix-Boettcher who had just dropped his debut album Heterogeneous Ex Nihilo DNA and was on the look out for other creatives to collaborate with.

Instantly bonding artistically, the pair continued to write together remotely, a partnership that’s resulted in the debut Cody Pepper single titled “Make A Wish”. Capturing the sonic aesthetic of artists such as FKA Twigs, Coucou Chloe and PVA, the inspiration for the Cody Pepper’s debut single came after watching the Gaspard Noé directed film ‘Climax’.

With Basile on production, on “Make A Wish” Cody Pepper spins a moody floor-filling synthwave cut with jazz tinges courtesy of Marius adding his trombone flair to the track. Full of rhythm, deep bass, dark tones and Cody Pepper’s vocal leads, with “Make A Wish” she makes her artistic entrance on a worthy debut single.

“I just watched Climax from Gaspard Noé when I came up with these vocals, it was also summer heat and I was driven crazy in my 40 degrees London apartment. Basile loved it and followed me on my trip adding Marius on the trombone to make it even more crazy,” she comments.

Listen to Make A Wish below