Welcome to this succession of sound tableaux in which improvisation acts as an activator of the forces at play.
We believe this is essential if we are to maintain the life, adaptability, responsiveness and creativity inherent in resistance music.

Track 1: AU DÉBUT
A cosmic sound, as if at the origin of the universe, the presence of electronics allows us to imagine and hear both the music of the great whole and the drama to come.
A given power and time allow us to modify our vibratory patterns and tune in, to anchor ourselves before taking a step towards expansion. Electronics are used here in the lower frequencies to stimulate the body and organs.
Then the sound begins to integrate what we might imagine as a human presence. An attention that brings us back down to earth, as close as possible to the earth's matter, the guitar with its “Ry Cooderian” accents gliding like an endless travelling through spaces that we imagine to be wild and free. Man lives here.
The music changes, guitar riffs emerge, timbres and rhythms suggest the chaos of uprooting, of being uprooted, and for the first time man sings and tells his story, how other men stole his future.

Track 2 : LA VILLE
The journey, the crossing, the approach to the city, with electronics fulfilling a rhythmic function, powerful and obstinate, the rhythm of machines, the timbre of metals, a sound space saturated in hyperactivity. To resist, to find life in this universe, to find a body movement, a dance, an unpredictable arrhythmic breath that enables us to survive. But the obsessive beats are constantly present, preventing any kind of centering.
The song we hear is emitted with an old-fashioned radio sound. The city has captured the voice,

Track 3 : TOTEM
Focus on the double bass, now Totem, prepared, adorned with additions and offerings. Ready to play, guarantor of memories, traditions and the vibrancy of each person's home. A powerful solo, playing with all the instrument's possibilities, reminds us that by plunging deeply into himself, man has always risen up and learned to live with his moments of despair.
Singing joins the double bass, and we witness the creation of these new, true languages of freedom. The fusion operates and creates the remedy.

Track 4 : DITES A (inspired by Roland Topor's “Panic The Golden Years”)
1975
Isolation. A voice orders the repetition of vowels and sounds. Laboratory for reprogramming, re-education. Attacking language, the music it generates, the highly personal way in which it deciphers the world for each individual. To feel man resist and at the same time give in to the injunctions of a mechanical voice that takes absolutely no account of his responses and progress. Man ends up speaking a language that doesn't exist, but which, articulated in a certain way, could resemble a real language. And we find ourselves trying to make sense of this empty language. The tortured voice and that of the executioner form a duo of two solos. Oppression has this sound.

Track 5 : DE RIEN
Natural disasters don't attack, they are.
Only man attacks culture, language and thought.
Everything has to be rebuilt in depth, impossible as before, then, just with the present, live very strongly in the present. The musicians improvise from snippets of the most primary sounds, from tin cans to breath... then expand their possibilities. By structuring their phrasing, by interweaving their intentions in millimetric fashion, to make the wave swell. And, in the process of improvisation, we sense the fragility of this rebirth. And the rapid reactivity of the living in space.

Track 6 : FANFARE
This wave has become a tidal wave, breaking and creating an improbable brass band which, because it was born of the unspeakable, has had time to create its own identity. The musical singularity of Blues repercussion sound bursts into the spotlight, inviting all those who wish to join in this collective voice.

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Crédits :
THIERRY WAZINIAK - DRUMS
FABRICE HÉLIAS - DOUBLE BASS
BAPTISTE VAYER - VOICE / GUITAR
GWENNAELLE ROULLEAU - ELECTRO ACOUSTIC
FRANCK SAUGÉ - SOUND / MIX / MASTERING

Recorded : 2021, Studio WAIMES - Belgique