Meril Wubsliin - Alors Quoi (Bongo Joe)

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WHAT WE SAY:

With hints of desert blues & all sorts of psychedelic slurry,
Meril Wubslin's widescreen acid folk album is a fine, far out trip with its French vocals giving it an extra cosmic je ne sais quoi. Big up Bongo Joe Records for dropping this pleasant surprise into the punch.

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WHAT YOUR EARS SAY:

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WHAT THE RELEASE NOTES SAY:

Recorded between Lausanne and Brussels during summer 2019, this new series of songs by Meril Wubslin dig deeper in this tribal, rustic and minimal tendency that they had in the two previous albums. It is the desire to search for sounds, to manipulate matter : sound matter, rhythmic matter, to knead it to its hottest point, that guided the work of composition. All vintage guitars were recorded without amps. Tambourines and other maracas were approached as a drum kit. But the harmonies and melodies are still present and sometimes event enhanced by the occasional participation of a choir of female voices or a minimal synth line. Always with this desire to use French, their mother tongue, while trying to avoid the trap of « variété française ».

« With this new album, we wanted to try something slightly different with the sound. Explore new ways to record our instruments and voices. Thus we decided to put away our amplifiers that we used for rockier moods. And we tried the acoustic option. We were surprised by the wide range of possibilities, much more direct and much more emotional actually. About the texts, we still insist with this open way of writing, a mixture between abstract and concrete which offers several understandings. With this liberty in the structure, we avoid the predominance of the message, to go towards a more sensitive and open meaning. »
Christian Garcia-Gaucher

Credits:

Musicians :
Christian Garcia-Gaucher, guitar, vocals, synths, percussions, lyrics
Valérie Niederoest, guitar, vocals, lyrics
Jérémie Conne, percussions, drums

Guests :
Choir : Constance von Braun, Anne Ducret, Anne Hartmann, Valérie Liengme, Laure-Elia Sauthier, Leili Yahr,
Trombone : Jérome Bugnon
Recorded by Jérémie Conne et Christian Garcia-Gaucher entre Renens (Studio Silo) et Bruxelles (Studio Berkendael), summer 2019
Production : Christian Garcia-Gaucher
Mastering : Timothy Stollenwerk at Stereophonic
Painting : Marius Huguenin
Design : Félix Vincent

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