We all know the old saying: “your father stole all the stars in the sky to put them in your eyes...". L'Effet Philémon does the same, but to cram them in your ears.
Mixing soul, exotica jazz and proto-punk disinheritance in a tub of adulterated acid, the whole thing takes the shape of an introspective investigation, with no plot, no crimes, no witnesses, not even suspects. It sounds more like an odyssey, sometimes playful, sometimes exploratory, offering no destination other than a jerky head movement that builds to a crescendo until it turns into a gesticulating quagmire.
A rave which, as Luc Grandemange's clip reveals, takes place in an oceanic setting, telescoping Dora The Explorer to the World of Narnia, at the crossroads of which we find the Jefferson Airplaines side of Alice in Wonderland.
Recorded in the Vaud Alps, then mixed in London by the legendary Malcolm Catto (The Heliocentrics, Vanishing Twin, Mulatu Astatke, Madlib), the new EP is the first chapter of a two-part work.
