Meril Wubslin - Alors quoi '2021

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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

Tracklist:
1 01. Meril Wubslin - Là autour (05:37)
1 02. Meril Wubslin - La traversée (04:21)
1 03. Meril Wubslin - Alors marche (03:02)
1 04. Meril Wubslin - Flâner (04:30)
1 05. Meril Wubslin - Sais-tu (02:56)
1 06. Meril Wubslin - Le bruit (02:59)
1 07. Meril Wubslin - Cest faux (03:58)
1 08. Meril Wubslin - À part ça (04:59)
1 09. Meril Wubslin - Laisser parler (07:33)

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