mia057 May 19 2023
Mondkopf - Spring Stories
EDITION: LP (300x Turqouise vinyl) + CD (200x Digipack)
CREDITS: Music by Paul Régimbeau. Acoustic Guitar by Stéphane Pigneul. Saxophone, Duduk by Frédéric D. Oberland. Drums by Tony Buck. Design by Erik K Skodvin. Photos by FFrédéric D. Oberland. Mastered by Loop-O
Deprived of sanity, Paul Régimbeau aka Mondkopf found new territories of expression with »Spring Stories«, a collection of post-rapture moods full of glorious chaos, ready to absorb and re-ignite all that is worn.
As a phoenix raising from the ashes, »Spring Stories« captures the earth in full bloom. Darkness & Insanity looses it´s grips as the roots and fresh leaves creates a slow dance towards the sun. Similarly sine-wave drones move around exploding electric guitar improvisations as new light beams on shadow cast corners. The album feels like a 60ies jam set in the post-world psychedelic underground. Heavy, absurd, beautiful and ready to sooth burnt out, depleted minds. Paul has citied that he´s affected as much by folk improvisors such as Master Wilburn Burchette & Robbie Basho as well as the doom drone of giants Earth & Sunn O))). Spring Stories invokes on these, while feeling like a personal blow-out, coming right from the core. Touching and grand, like spring itself.
The album also features Frederic D. Oberland on two tracks playing variously Duduk & Alto Saxophone. Lastly, The Necks drummer Tony Buck shakes & rattles all over the final – and seriously epic – piece “Continuation”, as the world aligns while the sun rises over its near-dead shape.
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