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Following up on the electroprog suite Magnetic Feel (2022), the parisian composer/bassist presents an incredibly short tune, featuring the return of his beloved Fender bass.

The Book of Gates is about RA sailing the Underworld, at night. This is a short version - only one of twelve hours is represented. The full 15mn version shall be released as "Le Livre des Portes" later this year. The cover depicts ATUM (the primordial Egyptian god - who created himself).

As an appetizer for the next full-length album, The Book of Gates mixes 80s polysynths, jittery rhythms and jazzy harmonies. A quasi-60s organ and a overdriven bass chase each other through a labyrinthine Canterburian counterpoint - all under the watchful eye of ATUM, RA and their merry friends and relatives.


Released July 29, 2024

Louis "Louison" de Mieulle: Fender bass, organ, OBX8, Prophet 10, Minimoog, DMX drums and various sounds.

Composed and produced by Louison.
Mixed + mastered by Antoine Delecroix.
Design by François "Peur du Loup" Parmentier.
Thanks to Casimir Liberski (Maniac Bazaar Studio, BXL) for the keyboards.

The Book of Gates (short version) [alt master]

I'm starting over with music. It's been a very long while since the last time.

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Buy on Bandcamp:
https://ldemieulle.bandcamp.com/track/le-livre-des-portes-version-longue

Following up on 2022's Magnetic Feel, French composer/bassist Louis "Louison" de Mieulle presents a 14-min journey through the Egyptian Underworld.

First in a series of four EPs, Le Livre des Portes (=The Book of Gates) is a succession of build-ups and plateaus, emerging from mysterious repetitive incantations, through bass/drums polymetric developments, to explosive Canterbury jazz-rock.

80s sci-fi sounds meet orchestral flourishes, along with Louison’s vintage Fender and Yamaha basses.

[Le Livre des Portes* is an ancient text narrating the 12 hours of the night as the Sun god RA travels through the Underworld, eventually attaining resurrection/sunrise. All this under the watchful eye of RA’s own daughter, the cat goddess Bastet.]

CREDITS:
Louis “Louison” de Mieulle : bass, keyboards, sequencing, premix
Featuring Christophe Rostang: trumpet
Antoine Delecroix: mix + master
François Parmentier: Mieulle blazon design

Released December 25, 2024 [Bandcamp exclusive]

* A much shorter, different arrangement was released last Summer as “The Book of Gates (short version)”. This here is the full-blown “version longue”. The 11 gates/12 hours are transcribed as follow:

Intro
"Entre chat et loop" (Dusk)
Part 1
Night - RA sails through the Western Mountains on his solar barque
Part 2 (entering the Duat)
Saa-Set (snake guard) - Maât (godess of justice)
Part 3
Aqebi (snake) - Geb (god of the Earth)
Part 4
Tchetbi (snake) - Osiris & the Jackals - Lake of liquid fire
Part 5
Interlude: Judge Osiris (bells + glock)
 Part 6
Nehebkau (snake) - RA's Bâ (trumpet)
Part 7
Interlude: The Sails of Aqen, on the waters of Nun
Part 8
Island of fire - Winged snake Semi announces dawn (synth clusters) - Fight against Apep (darkness/disorder) begins
Part 9
Bastet eliminates Apep
Part 10
Morning stars - RA’s new face - RA’s soul and body in Heaven and Earth - Osiris goodbye
Part 11
Sunrise - Khepri the sacred dung beetle - Exiting the Duat - Road to the East.


PS: The original sequence of events has been slightly altered, in order to fit the composer's internal balance of self-acceptance and commercial destiny.

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Le Livre des Portes (version longue)

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Cyberprog/Retrofuture/Dadavantgarde.

Forgotten influences (Canterbury scene, early XXth classical, cheesy fusion). 

Failed classical studies: grandeur of European culture.
10 years in the US: land of superior show business and decadence.

"Nous travaillons en fonction d'une douleur et d'une joie intemporelles, pour résoudre l'énigme fondamentale de l'espèce humaine." [Christian Vander]

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