St Germain's Ludovic Navarre and his musical window on the world

Best known for gorgeous house music under his St Germain moniker, Ludovic Navarre has teamed up with a group of Malian musicians to play in Ireland, writes Ed Power

LUDOVIC Navarre is electronic music’s very own man of mystery. As ‘St Germain’, the softly-spoken Parisian defined the laid-back sound of the early 2000s with his seminal album Tourist.

The record was a seductive cocktail of jazz, lounge pop, and ambient electronica that somehow found a way to be carefree and cerebral in the same moment. You felt more sophisticated simply by listening to it.