COVER SONGS IN INFERNO (vinyl)

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Spirit, are you there? With Cover Songs In Inferno, Françoiz Breut and Don Nino summon the haunting and haunted spirit of Black Sabbath, Felt, The Cramps, Shocking Blue, Bonnie Dobson, Bonnie "Prince" Billie, Donovan, Jefferson Airplane and The Kinks. A first album conceived by two hands, made up exclusively of covers (including Oh My Son, written by... Don Nino), marking, in the grooves of the vinyl or the live memory of the digital, two decades of friendship, travels (a joint tour in 2002 took them as far as Andalusia) and artistic complicity. An album entirely in English, an occult record? Soon to be cult! Ten Anglo-Saxon covers that resonate in the dark... The hellish duo Françoiz Breut & Nicolas Laureau - aka Don Nino - have known each other for quite some time already, but the sound magician and his beloved witch had never co-produced an album together. Ten tracks chosen and sung in the language of Shakespearean tragedies by Françoiz Breut, an enchanting record - entirely played and produced by Don Nino - inspired by the current insane context, driven by the desire to halt the advance of widespread gloom thanks to a few magical (drum)stick blows and a ladleful of toad's spit ode to life" Always in search of new sonic horizons, musician and composer Nicolas Laureau aka Don Nino took us last year on the strange spiritual jazz journey of his album Scaring The Mice For Revenge while the Norman illustrator and singer based in Brussels presented on stage the dark poetry of the sinful urban jungle of her album Le Flux Flou de La Foule. The two accomplices have known each other for twenty years and took advantage of the time left by the lockdowns to imagine their first joint project, leaving behind the hell of this "absurd" period for a salvific exercise in covers of favorite songs." One sunny April day, Nicolas called me to check in and see if I was still alive at the start of the pandemic [laughs]. He suggested I choose songs that were particularly close to my heart and started working on his side" explains Françoiz Breut, who selected several oldies. A choice guided above all by the militant or poetic stories told by Black Sabbath, The Cramps, Jefferson Airplane, Donovan, Bonnie "Prince" Billie, The Kinks, Felt, Shocking Blue or Bonnie Dobson. In a krautrock and psychedelic atmosphere, Don & Françoiz invite us on a timeless journey of rock poetry with a devilish charm, on which rises the enchanting voice of Françoiz Breut and the music of Don Nino armed with numerous guitars, his old keyboards, his famous Japanese drum kit Akiko and his vintage toms." ---Guillaume Schnee, FIP ---.