[alternate master - less aggressive]

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]

Liner notes

Our world is in the midst of turmoil. Human madness forces Earth to defend itself with violent aftershocks, like so many distress signals. Will wisdom finally become the watchword of the times to come, clearing the path to a possible future? This is the undoubtful aim of a masterful, concise record, stretching a mysterious thread between a worried past, here recalled by Jean-Pierre Soarez's trumpet and its 'Zoydian' echoes, a destructive present where forests become deserts, and an uncertain future that we urgently need to be shaped. As an architect of a unique landscape of light and shadow – here is a cosmogony haunted by a underlying beat and unknown chants – where shouts and murmurs merge, melting into the heart of melodies as ancient as they are contemporary, Thierry Zaboitzeff comes to us as a human being aware of the challenges ahead. His radical, fiercely beautiful visions are ours.
(Denis Desassis)

Composed, performed, recorded, mixed, mastered
from May to October 2023 by Thierry Zaboitzeff: cello, voice, bass guitar, keyboards, samplers, programming and various electro-acoustic treatments.

Jean Pierre Soarez: Trumpet with love in Zoydian mood  
on tracks 1-3-5

The words at the beginning of La Forêt (track 02)
 are by François-René de Chateaubriand.
 
*Poster Boy was originally written for Nathalie Borgers' film
 " Fang den Haider " and rearranged for this album.

Artwork : Thierry Moreau

℗ 2024 Thierry Zaboitzeff / Monstre Sonore / © 2024 WTPL Music

all rights reserved

Le Passage

Le Passage - album preview

Le Passage - album preview (medley*)

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)

Composer and multi-instrumentalist, one of the heads of the group Art Zoyd from 1971 till 1997, Thierry Zaboitzeff writes nowadays for dance, theater, multimedia events, movies as well as for his own projects and performances.

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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