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Sol Hess – Waiting For The Cricket Choir (CD/LP)
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GENRE : POP-CHANSON-MรLANCOLIQUERELEASE DATE : 1 MARS 2024LABEL : P572 + PLATINUM RECORDSCATALOGUE : P572 CD/LP 102 / PL 103For orders in Europe click HEREPressing of 500 copies. Only 50 available for North America. Aussi disponible chez les disquaires indรฉpendants
Description
FRANรAIS:
Si la musique folk nโa eu de cesse de faire des allers et retours entre prรฉsent et passรฉ, grands espaces et trottoirs bondรฉs, elle sโoffre par la voix de Sol Hess une forme dโรฉlรฉvation hors dโun temps et dโun espace donnรฉs. A la maniรจre dโun rayon de lumiรจre qui rentre et sort, brille puis sโรฉteint, son nouvel album prend la forme dโun carnet intime qui ouvre presque involontairement une voie vers la transcendance. Figure dรฉsormais bien installรฉe de lโunderground franรงais, Sol Hess รฉchappe ร chaque fois aux catรฉgorisations trop faciles et ร la rรฉpรฉtition. On a ainsi pu le croiser en frontman dโun groupe post-punk fiรฉvreux (Sweat Like An Apeย !), en chef dโun orchestre post-jazz aux accents noisy (Sol Hess & The Boom Boom Doom Revue) ou en patron dรฉfricheur de label (pour son exigeante maison Club Teckel). Et cela sans compter ses collaborations avec le milieu de la BD, de lโillustration et du spectacle vivant.
En ayant larguรฉ les amarres de la ville quโil habitait depuis longtemps, le musicien nรฉ en Angleterre semble avoir fait de la place dans son inspiration. Waiting For The Cricket Choir est un disque extrรชmement personnel et intime, marquรฉ par le silence de la campagne oรน il vit dรฉsormais, par la marque dโun temps qui sโรฉtireย jusquโร lโextase et dโun dรฉpouillement qui substitue la quรชte dโune vรฉritรฉ personnelle ร celle de lโascรฉtisme. Poursuivant ainsi lโentreprise de The Missing View, son premier album solo paru en 2021, Sol Hess a resserrรฉ sa formule autour dโune simple guitare classique, de sa voix et de quelques arrangements fantรดmes qui hantent les pistes de ce disque enregistrรฉ ร la maison et mixรฉ de maniรจre discrรจte par Rubin Steiner, collaborateur de longue date. Malgrรฉ ce minimalisme assumรฉ, cette nouvelle collection de chansons donne une impression de libertรฉ et dโhonnรชtetรฉ rares. Cโest dans les entrelacs de ses mots et de ses notes de guitare que Sol Hess dรฉcouvre un monde foisonnant, oรน lโon peut au choix rester cachรฉ ou sโabandonner, en laissant la lumiรจre prendre toute la place.
ENGLISH:
Whereas folk music has been known to wander back and forth between past and present – from the great outdoors to crammed city sidewalks – it finds in Sol Hess’ voice a certain boundlessness and timelessness. His new album reveals itself in an ever-shifting beam of light, taking the form of a personal diary that almost unintentionally leads a way to transcendence. A key player of the French underground scene, Sol Hess invariably seems to avoid easy categorization or repetition. He has thus amongst other things been known to front fiery post-punk band Sweat Like An Ape!, conduct noisy post-jazz ensemble Sol Hess & The Boom Boom Doom Revue, or manage his own audacious record label, Club Teckel. And that is without mentioning his collaborations with graphic novelists, illustrators, and the world of live-entertainment and theatre.
After two decades in Bordeaux, the British-born musician has left the city and seems to have made room for inspiration. Waiting For The Cricket Choir is an extremely personal and intimate record, significantly defined by the silence of the countryside he now resides in, the stretching of time to a very state of bliss, and a skinning process that appears to favor the pursuit of an inner truth to the quest for asceticism. Following his solo debut The Missing View, released in 2021, Sol Hess has stripped his craft to classical guitar, vocals and a few phantom arrangements that haunt the tracks of this home-recorded album, and entrusted its subtle mix to long-time collaborator Rubin Steiner. Despite its minimalistic approach, this new collection of songs conveys an impression of freedom and rare honesty. Sol Hess unveils a luxuriant world – interwoven between his words and guitar notes – where one can either hide or abandon one’s self altogether, and let the light in for good.ย
Si la musique folk nโa eu de cesse de faire des allers et retours entre prรฉsent et passรฉ, grands espaces et trottoirs bondรฉs, elle sโoffre par la voix de Sol Hess une forme dโรฉlรฉvation hors dโun temps et dโun espace donnรฉs. A la maniรจre dโun rayon de lumiรจre qui rentre et sort, brille puis sโรฉteint, son nouvel album prend la forme dโun carnet intime qui ouvre presque involontairement une voie vers la transcendance. Figure dรฉsormais bien installรฉe de lโunderground franรงais, Sol Hess รฉchappe ร chaque fois aux catรฉgorisations trop faciles et ร la rรฉpรฉtition. On a ainsi pu le croiser en frontman dโun groupe post-punk fiรฉvreux (Sweat Like An Apeย !), en chef dโun orchestre post-jazz aux accents noisy (Sol Hess & The Boom Boom Doom Revue) ou en patron dรฉfricheur de label (pour son exigeante maison Club Teckel). Et cela sans compter ses collaborations avec le milieu de la BD, de lโillustration et du spectacle vivant.
En ayant larguรฉ les amarres de la ville quโil habitait depuis longtemps, le musicien nรฉ en Angleterre semble avoir fait de la place dans son inspiration. Waiting For The Cricket Choir est un disque extrรชmement personnel et intime, marquรฉ par le silence de la campagne oรน il vit dรฉsormais, par la marque dโun temps qui sโรฉtireย jusquโร lโextase et dโun dรฉpouillement qui substitue la quรชte dโune vรฉritรฉ personnelle ร celle de lโascรฉtisme. Poursuivant ainsi lโentreprise de The Missing View, son premier album solo paru en 2021, Sol Hess a resserrรฉ sa formule autour dโune simple guitare classique, de sa voix et de quelques arrangements fantรดmes qui hantent les pistes de ce disque enregistrรฉ ร la maison et mixรฉ de maniรจre discrรจte par Rubin Steiner, collaborateur de longue date. Malgrรฉ ce minimalisme assumรฉ, cette nouvelle collection de chansons donne une impression de libertรฉ et dโhonnรชtetรฉ rares. Cโest dans les entrelacs de ses mots et de ses notes de guitare que Sol Hess dรฉcouvre un monde foisonnant, oรน lโon peut au choix rester cachรฉ ou sโabandonner, en laissant la lumiรจre prendre toute la place.
ENGLISH:
Whereas folk music has been known to wander back and forth between past and present – from the great outdoors to crammed city sidewalks – it finds in Sol Hess’ voice a certain boundlessness and timelessness. His new album reveals itself in an ever-shifting beam of light, taking the form of a personal diary that almost unintentionally leads a way to transcendence. A key player of the French underground scene, Sol Hess invariably seems to avoid easy categorization or repetition. He has thus amongst other things been known to front fiery post-punk band Sweat Like An Ape!, conduct noisy post-jazz ensemble Sol Hess & The Boom Boom Doom Revue, or manage his own audacious record label, Club Teckel. And that is without mentioning his collaborations with graphic novelists, illustrators, and the world of live-entertainment and theatre.
After two decades in Bordeaux, the British-born musician has left the city and seems to have made room for inspiration. Waiting For The Cricket Choir is an extremely personal and intimate record, significantly defined by the silence of the countryside he now resides in, the stretching of time to a very state of bliss, and a skinning process that appears to favor the pursuit of an inner truth to the quest for asceticism. Following his solo debut The Missing View, released in 2021, Sol Hess has stripped his craft to classical guitar, vocals and a few phantom arrangements that haunt the tracks of this home-recorded album, and entrusted its subtle mix to long-time collaborator Rubin Steiner. Despite its minimalistic approach, this new collection of songs conveys an impression of freedom and rare honesty. Sol Hess unveils a luxuriant world – interwoven between his words and guitar notes – where one can either hide or abandon one’s self altogether, and let the light in for good.ย
releases March 1, 2024
All songs written and performed by Sol Hess.
Mixed by Rubin Steiner. Mastered by Stรฉphane Teyniรฉ at A/D Mastering, Bordeaux, France.
Photos by Mauricette Desirรฉe Hess. Cover photo edited by Celia Belisle Fabre. Additional artwork and design by Mme 12.
Platinum Records (France) & P572 (Canada), 2024.
Tracklist :ย
1.The Night Never Feels Right When I’m Away 2.(The World Is Crazy If It Isn’t) Crazy About You 3.This Sorrowful Tune 4. The Summer Air Was Filled With Fright 5.Street Lights 6.City Ghosts 7.Poor Christopher 8.The Starlight, The Moonlight, My Dear
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