For its 48th release, Da ! Heard It Records takes a leak into the unknown.
On the sleeve picture, conceptualized by Pia-Mélissa Laroche, Johann Mazé chooses the bag race to cross what seems to be a rural garden. In simple terms, he thus shows the listener the step to follow: one must jump with feet together in this eccentric universe with blurry borders, as if out of some dream, at the very place where a sleepy memory weaves strange links among things.
Here, enigmatic voices escape a house without walls into which one enters through the roof; improbable ritualistic rhythms form alternately the outlet of an imaginary tribe or a parade of a cannibalistic Yellow Jackets’ batucada; elsewhere, a wobbly walz lulls the ear with soft dissonances; farther still, a piano turns off in the night, a harmonica rises, a metronome sets the tone of a charade of diverse and catchy percussions…
Like an exquisite cadaver on a piece of paper that we unfold little by little, each new piece of the puzzle opens the door onto an unexpected territory. Passing from one thumbnail to the next though, the atmospheres answer each other with a clever sonorous montage, a patchwork of field recordings, of sonorous poetry… more
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released February 1, 2021
Johann Mazé & Jihem Rita
paroles, boîtes à rythme, électronique, claviers, piano, cris, rires, chœurs, harmonica, mini-xylophone, mini-métallophone, batterie, grelots, maracas, pads, syntoba, métronome, field recordings, brosse à dent électrique, magimix, rhino horn…
Mastering par Fabien Meunier
Conception graphique par P.M Laroche
Communiqué de presse par Germain
Traduction par Danielle Josset
