"It’s a Hail Mary every time" (ft. Marc Rebillet)

December 2, 2025·52 min·4 clips

Watch Marc Rebillet create a funky beat out of thin air using just a looper and keyboard.

It starts in a kitchen. Charlie Harding sets up Marc Rebillet through that January 2020 YouTube lesson, where a bathrobe, a keyboard, and Logic Pro turn into a full funk machine. The room is tiny. The track keeps growing anyway: drums, shaker, electric piano, organ, clavinet, bass, then the improvised vocal that locks it all in. Then everything shuts down. Rebillet says an Australia trip might have stranded him there, so the tour turns into a timezone problem. He plays the missing shows online instead. It sounds ridiculous, and in the conversation it kind of is, but his whole format already belongs there. Callers hand him strange little sparks. He turns them into songs, and the back-and-forth starts to feel less like a workaround than a weekly way to stay sane. The phrase he uses is blunt: horrifying pandemic. Under that pressure, he keeps showing up online to play, vent, and keep people company while they keep him company too. The pivot did not come from nowhere. He had already been livestreaming from different apartments, so the moment that could have stalled him found him oddly ready. The attention follows the closeness. When stages return, the tours are bigger, with Lollapalooza, Coachella, and more standard venues in the mix. Still, he heads back outside. Harding points to a tour where Rebillet works like an Uber busker, setting up around cities and pulling the livestream into public space. The craft lesson sneaks up on you. What starts as a funny image of funk in a robe becomes a sharp little study of improvisation, caller chemistry, timing, and making pressure sound like motion.

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