From "Beetz", Konejo's 2nd LP out February 6th, 2021 on IRM Netlabel : https://indierockmag.bandcamp.com/album/beetz

From the label : "Avec Beetz et ses 35 vignettes adeptes du contrepied dont les atmosphères cathartiques laissent de l'espace aux beats ludiques et aux mélodies immédiates, Konejo tente de trouver l'équilibre entre sampling, instrumentation et textures, à la croisée de l'electronica versant lo-fi, du hip-hop instru bricolo, de l'ambient, et des musiques de films qui continuent de nourrir son imaginaire par boucles interposées. Un album initialement conçu comme une "beat tape" pour faire évoluer dans un format plus court et percutant les soundtracks clairs-obscurs de son premier LP Snapping Back In, et aussi riche en guests talentueux qu'en télescopages improbables !"

Liner notes : "I always hated beet, nearly as much as the Beatles... but i love beetles, beats and collage of bits and pisces (especially on April's Fools') so i guess you could say that i have a bitter/sweet relationship with those bits and pieces of personal stories and imaginary films focused on beats - and yet, still very much shaped and textured by bits of vintage B movie samples. But hey, no sweat ! I actually don't hate any of it, the bitter part being mostly about a few memories and situations from another life that inspired me some of those instrumentals and most of my previous record "Snapping Back In". With a little help from my friends and guests, i even came to consider most of these Beetz like sweets for the ear... which i hope you'll do too, despite the relatively intentional lack of consistency that "fake beat tape" tries to play with !"

Tracklist :

1. Here Comes the Pain
2. A Man With A Plan
3. Soul Trippin'
4. Chased After
5. Never in the Moment
6. Initiating Night Time Mode
7. Films Noirs (feat. HeAD)
8. Puppet Without a Ghost
9. More of the Same (feat. Collapsology)
10. Fear Over the City
11. One Minute Thirty Against Sobriety (feat. V)
12. Dial 310 For Murder
13. The Last Screening
14. Itchy & Slashy (feat. Otrno Slvani)
15. Blending into the Crowd
16. Run Fool, Run (feat. Keolhan)
17. How I Started to Worry About the Bomb Again
18. Portended Demise (feat. Noventa)
19. FX Warfare
20. A New Face
21. Deaf and Demanding
22. Manic Piano (feat. Valgidrà)
23. Let It Flow
24. As a Kite in a Cab (feat. Klimperei)
25. Clemency of the Uncaring
26. A Million Ways to Lie in the West (feat. Keolhan)
27. Above Retribution ?
28. Hint Ravenous (feat. B-Maltais)
29. Dawn with the Wind
30. Writhen While I Cry
31. All I Want for Xmas is You Leave Me Alone
32. Neos Sisyphos
33. Beyond
34. So... What Now ?
35. Poverty & Friends

Duration : 55'05

Recorded between August 4th, 2020 and January 28th, 2021. Over a hundred samples, mostly from beloved cinematographic sources, were pillaged and desacrated in the making of this album.

Konejo : sample collages, Maschine MKII (live drums / beats / synths / basslines...), Casio CDP-130 (digital piano), Yamaha PSR-E403 (arpeggios), Yamaha PSS-390 & PSS-290 (keyboards / programmed drums / synth modulations), Casio SA-46 (lo-fi keys), Korg Volca Kick (drones / basslines), whistling, beatbox, vocals.

Credits :

Track 7 : sample loop by Konejo, everything else by HeAD
Track 9 : sample loop by Konejo, everything else by Collapsology
Track 11 : sample loop and sample arrangements by Konejo, everything else by V
Track 14 : sample loop, bass and post-production by Konejo, everything else by Otrno Slvani
Tracks 16 & 26 : featuring Keolhan on guitars
Track 18 : sample loop and sample arrangements by Konejo, everything else by  Noventa
Track 22 : digital piano and keys by Valgidrà, everything else by Konejo
Track 24 : sample loop and sample arrangements by Konejo, everything else by Klimperei
Track 28 : featuring B-Maltais on Casio SA-46

Artwork by B-Maltais & Konejo.

Kindly and brilliantly mastered by Anatoly 'Tokee' Grinberg (www.discogs.com/artist/3790715-Anatoly-Tokee-Grinberg).

Dedicated to Ennio Morricone.

Puppet Without A Ghost (from "Beetz" LP out February 6th)

I am an inexperienced musical entity using the most basic tools of the digital age to copy and paste whatever into imaginary post-whatever soundtracks. Inner cinematics... i do nothing, samples do it all.