![]() ![]() It is obvious Louis listened to those and even studied them when a student at the conservatory. ![]() On the classical side, his sensitivity, his catchy tunes and the choice of the violin as a central instrument recall altogether his elder brother Yann Tiersen (“Luggage”, “Le quart de ton”) and his fathers Gavin Bryars or Pinguin Cafe Orchestra (“Elle est l’eau qui fait le torrent”, “Luggage”), or even his grand-father Stokhausen for the research on sounds. Under the stunningly fresh and powerfully catchy melodies, hides a multiple-layers album the nature of which can only be grabbed when listened to many (613 ?) times. ![]() We already knew of the need for some originally electronic musicians to smartly have ago at classical music – Amon Tobin or Murcof, to name a few – but never before had we witnessed such a great balance between the genres. No doubt that his numerous and remarkable performances on French stages (Printemps de Bourges 08 Discovery, Eurockéennes 09 Revelation) have made this one-man band more mature and led him to approach other instruments (guitar, cello or bouzouki) with his desires as the only limit. He is still the genial electronic fiddler and violin virtuoso that we had discovered on his first two EPs (“Darling, darling, darling…” & “Scandale”) ! But the progression so far is stunning. “Mad, mysterious, bewitching, as strange as implacable…” is what you could think of this law of nature and of the music on this genuine debut album by Chapelier Fou. Indeed, 613 is the exact number of pellets contained in a grenade and the pick of this title by Louis Warynski (aka Chapelier Fou) is certainly no coincidence!īeside its whole-number title this record holds another beautiful incongruity, it respects the squaring of the circle so dear to quality music. ![]() Just like any masterpiece, talking about it can become perilous and let you fear it may blow up in your face like a grenade would. Presenting “613” is surely no easy task for doing so is risking to be incomplete, approximative and quickly go short of words. ![]()
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