Stadium - Vinyle Vert 180Gr

Description

Chevreuil is a French rock duo formed in 1998 by Julien F. and Tony C., three years after they met at the École des beaux-arts in Nantes. From the outset, they approached the idea of a band as a performative installation: a self-contained sculptural apparatus dedicated to sound, space, and movement, rather than a traditional rock ensemble. Julien and Tony play "magnetic drums" and "magnetic guitar" respectively, a proto-semantic elaboration unique to them, which compares their playing to an instinctive physical phenomenon that naturally exerts attractive or repulsive forces. Their music functions as an assembly of interlocking, superimposed, geometric, and structured rhythmic and harmonic blocks. Rejecting a traditional formation, Chevreuil developed a quadraphonic setup where Tony's guitar passes through four amplifiers that surround Julien's drums. The result is both physical and spatial: a minimalist engine of rhythm and resonance that acts as much as an installation as it does a band. Between 1998 and 2006, Chevreuil released four albums, an EP, and several singles. Their last three recordings were produced by Steve Albini in Chicago. After a twenty-year hiatus, Chevreuil returns with *Stadium*, a double album tinged with esotericism. *Stadium* draws on magnetism, the music of the spheres, radioactivity, barometric oscillations, astrometry, and magic, using these notions as prisms to explore vibration and transformation. Chevreuil's return reaffirms their identity: a duo shaped by conceptualism, sound architecture, and human connection, building a precise, raw, and vibrant musical environment.