Transmutada

Eloïse Decazes & Eric Chenaux - La bride
TFR043
http://www.three-four.net/releases/TFR043
Out april 14th, 2017. Available on LP, CD and digital.
Order: https://wearethreefour.bandcamp.com/album/la-bride

La bride [The Bridle], which is here released by the Lausanne-based three:four label (Norberto Lobo, Danny Oxenberg & Bear Galvin, Mike Wexler, etc.), is their second album and it is perhaps even more surprising.
What do we find here? Ten new songs from old times, reimagined from top to bottom, arranged with equal parts madness and precision. One dies always and often in the rolling waves and riptides of these songs without refrain. You can only love furiously and you lose yourself almost everywhere. One hears vicious tales sung in a language characterized by insane turns of phrase. Animals have the word and the forest frightens to death, children make love, and if fathers die by the swords of their sons, it is well deserved. But Eloïse Decazes, more dancer than actress, more visual artist than storyteller, more musician than anything else, does not embellish the literal, never dramatizes her narratives, preferring to blow her melodies like glass or scrub and distill them to limestone and chalk, seeking air in the wooly outlines of verses. Her voice like dawn and her curious formations accompanied by the multiple sonic stances of Chenaux are like myriad flares that inscribe a ballet of shadows and lights in the dark material of the themes, very slow and very beautiful. One hears these firmly unstable arpeggios played on nylon strings that interwoven patterns of electric guitar come to disturb or even liquefy like waves. It is comprised of surprises and conflicting emotions. Furthermore, we are stunned by the way this curious album sometimes induces vertigo, with its vocal majesty and fake crawling violins, its harmonic suicides and misleading solos; how handily it subverts its forms, but without fuss, with kindness and in the utmost calm.
Let us be clear: La bride is not folk music, nor even so-called traditional music. It is an album of new music dreamt and conceived from very old melodies, an observation testified to by its production - all in shifting stereo - its soft psychedelia, a dialogue with a certain intrepid modernity (Monk, Cage, Derek Bailey and the "Obscure" records of Brian Eno are all visible from here), the love of inquiry and peregrinations for a present that is ceaselessly renewed.

La Bride

Eloïse Decazes & Eric Chenaux - Le deuil d'amour

"Bésame Mucho"
Cover - Borja Flames
Originally written by Consuelo Velazquez
A request from the mexican label Música Solar.

Borja Flames - Bésame Mucho

Juana Y Jose

La Candela del Río is the debut album by Paris-based Venezuelan quartet Insólito UniVerso. In the space of 8 tracks, the band fuses traditional Venezuelan styles, such as joropo, merengue caraqueño, or tambores de San Millán with psych, chanson, and contemporary electronics. Co-produced by The Heliocentrics' Malcolm Catto, the record shows two distinct sides; on the one hand there's euphoric music that begs to be danced to, while on the other there's melancholy, mystery and devotion.

Maria Fernanda Ruette: Cuatro & Vocals 
Raúl Monsalve : Bass 
Edgar Bonilla Jiménez: Keys 
Andres Sequera: Drums 

Guests: 
Rafael Mejias: Maracas & Charrasca (except on A3 & A4) 
Orlando Poleo: Clarín drum on B2 

Co-produced by: Malcom Catto, Raúl Monsalve and Edgar Bonilla Jiménez 
Mixed by Malcolm Catto at Quatermass Studio. Except A2, A3 and A4 mixed by Alex Figueira at Barracão Sound. 
Mastered by Frank Merritt at The Carvery 
Artwork by Emily Evans 
Design and Layout by Brunella Giannangeli

El vuelo del Gabán

La candela del río is the debut album by Insólito UniVerso. Co-produced by The Heliocentrics’ Malcolm Catto, the record shows two distinct sides; on the one hand there’s euphoric music that begs to be danced to, while on the other there’s melancholy, mystery and devotion. 

The album kicks off with Transmutada, a composition inspired by the Venezuelan waltz and the works of Conny Mendez, a Venezuelan eccentric from the 20th century. 

More info here: http://www.musicamacondo.com/2018/10/premiere-insolito-universo-transmutada/

Premiere: Insolito Universo - Transmutada

"La Candela del Río" is the debut album by Paris-based Venezuelan quartet Insólito UniVerso. In the space of 8 tracks, the band fuses traditional Venezuelan styles, such as Joropo, Merengue Caraqueño, or Tambores de San Millán with psych, chanson, and contemporary electronics. Co-produced by The Heliocentrics' Malcolm Catto, the record shows two distinct sides; on the one hand there's euphoric music that begs to be danced to, while on the other there's melancholy, mystery, and devotion.

'Tonada Del Guante' is a song inspired by the tonada llanera, a traditional style of work song from the plains made famous across the world by Simón Díaz, one of the main exponents of Venezuelan music to date. The tonadas are usually sung by farmers or "llaneros" out in the fields with no instruments and only the sounds of animals and nature in the background. As such, the lyrics are sung in random patterns usually with no recognizable rhythm. 

This is the first track that Mafe Ruette and Raúl Monsalve wrote together, and the one were Malcolm Catto's unique production style fits like a glove. The result is a nocturnal piece; a solitary and lunar reflection, silent, facing the boundlessness of the savannah. A call to the road ahead.

Preorder Album: https://bit.ly/2PffZfm

La Candela del Río

Preorder Album

Exclusive Premiere: Insólito UniVerso "Tonada Del Guante" (Olindo Records)

Quand on souhaite la bonne année, on a souvent rien à dire.
 
Voilà pourquoi aujourd’hui, j’ai décidé de vous souhaiter une bonne année au delà des mots.

Comment ? A travers une sélection de près d’une heure de musique chantées sans aucune parole intelligible.

Voici
2020 au delà des mots
 
Une manière de vous dire que je garde les miens pour faire du bon travail sur vos projets.

A très bientôt
Germain FRAISSE, concepteur-rédacteur

Artwork : Anthony Ivol, DA et programmeur (http://www.anthonyivol.com)

Germain FRAISSE 2020 Au Dela Des Mots

Haunt010/Royal Dust/Brownwood

Folk experimental de Venezuela. María Fernanda : voice, cuatro. Raúl Monsalve: bass. Edgar Bonilla-Jiménez : keyboards, synth.

Transmutada

Insólito UniVerso

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