"He who comes in peace", according to his Egyptian pseudonym, is the sound
architect of the group IAM. A member of IAM since 1989, Pascal Perez was renamed
Imhotep by Akhenaton. Imhotep escaped from the world he had forged with IAM on a
trip to Essaouira, Morocco, where he conceived the 1998 album Blue Print .
Instrumental, Blue Print leans towards desert blues, oriental rhythms and lounge
music, a far cry from the French rap to which Imhotep has accustomed his public.
He returned to his daily routine with the compilations Chroniques de Mars, vol.
1 (1998) and Chroniques de Mars,...