Rémi Parson

Frenchman exiled in London for 8 years, Rémi Parson recorded the 9 tracks of his first album in one block, in total autarky, folded on himself with a Casio and a computer. Precipitations' testifies to these strange moments where the pop pantheon rubs against the unconscious, where aesthetic aspirations are twisted by more instinctive reflexes. From the very first skeletons of songs, singing in one's native language was an obvious, abstract and necessary thing, an impulse not to be interrupted. Formally, the record summons some great English ghosts, a whole part of the cold and synth-wave, we could stop there but it would be to miss the subject, everything is much more contemporary, luminous, uneven and deep in this record. The 80's side is not a panoply, the sadness a little stubborn which emerges from an old synth or a recalcitrant drum machine comes to make echo to the tracks proud of their fragility, whose minimalism does not oppose at all the baroque impulses. The titles are direct but the shadows and the points of tension are numerous. The disc reveals itself with each listening more devious than it seems, it unfolds slowly, offering several entries and readings. However, the 9 tracks appear in the order of their creation, without any other logical articulation than the one of the initial accident, the breath of the record is there, in the accident, in the surprise. 'Précipitations' will be released on January 1st 2015 and it will be the first record of the year.