| 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 |
