XavierPALAU

Bordeaux 33000

XAVIER MONAX Guitarist · Composer · Multi-Instrumentalist Somewhere between the darkness of cold wave, the pulse of rock, and the fragile beauty of poetry, Xavier Monax creates music that lingers. Born in the Bordeaux region of France, Xavier Palau — known on stage as Xavier Monax — is a guitarist, composer and multi-instrumentalist whose work moves between tension and intimacy, noise and silence, shadow and light. His music is raw yet melodic, atmospheric yet visceral — a world where guitars breathe, bass lines carry the weight, and melodies emerge like distant lights in the dark. FROM SILENCE TO SOUND Xavier began his journey as a solo artist under the name Monax, building a musical language of his own. His early compositions were intimate and stripped back, shaped by hypnotic guitar textures, melancholic melodies and a deep sense of space. His influences reach from The Cure and Dominique A to Siouxsie and the Banshees — artists who understand that music can b