London-based French chanteuse, multi instrumentalist & composer announces new album ‘Powder Keg’
‘Askew indie rock thrills, bubbling, synth-flecked [and] sitting at a perpendicular to the mundanity of the everyday’
- Clash
London-based French chanteuse, multi-instrumentalist & composer Clémentine March shares her new single of entrancing avant-pop ‘After The Solstice’, from her upcoming new album ‘Powder Keg’.
Enriched by influences from jazz, folk and Brazilian music, ‘After The Solstice’ was initially inspired by a time spent touring the UK with acclaimed folk singer Naima Bock. For Clémentine, the song explores “the theme of memory and reminiscence” and employs an absorbing sense of cyclical repetition; a musical device used “to evoke the deja vu sensations we all experience in life”.
Out of life on the road, everyday recurrence and contemplative retrospection, Clémentine creates a profoundly hypnotic anthem on ‘After The Solstice’, both mellow and fervent. Evoking the likes of Stereolab, The Raincoats and Cate Le Bon, it’s a mesmeric singalong of graceful vocal lilts and poised musicianship, with every element moving in beautiful unison.
Recorded & arranged with Ollie Chapman (bass) & Sophie Lowe (drums), and featuring vocal contributions from Naima Bock, Sophie Jamieson, Katy J Pearson, MF Tomlinson, Marika Tyler-Clark, Robyn's Rocket and Alabaster DePlume, ‘After The Solstice’ is the first glimpse of Clémentine’s third album ‘Powder Keg’, following the rich international eclecticism of her debut album ‘Le Continent’, and the beguiling intimacies of her second LP ‘Songs of Resilience’.
1. After The Solstice
2. Lixo Sentimental
3. Upheaval
4. Fireworks
5. Les Annes
6. Powder Keg
7. You Are Everywhere
8. Symtomatique
9. Honestly
10. Lucie
11. Les Temps Qu'il Faut Bien
12. The Power Of Your Dreams
Manufacturer:
PRAH Recordings Studio 122, Netil Corner, 2 Bocking St, London E8 4RU prahrecordings@gmail.com
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