{"product_id":"gisele-pape_caillou_2021_dif","title":"Caillou","description":"Gisèle Pape retained a solid musical foundation from her training at the Belfort conservatory, where she studied liturgical organ. From her time at the Louis-Lumière school, where she made experimental films and composed their soundtracks, she developed a taste for editing and working with sound and visual material. In 2016, she released \"Oiseau,\" her first EP, a collection of dreamlike scenes and electronic refrains revealing the influence of fables. She was soon offered opening acts for artists such as Mathieu Boogaerts, La Féline, Alex Beaupain, Vincent Delerm, and Malik Djoudi. Drawing on this stage experience, Gisèle Pape wrote and composed her first album. \"Caillou\" finds its roots in the harsh social context of recent years, as well as in the growing awareness of climate change threatening the planet. If \"Oiseau\" was an enclosed, dream-focused piece, \"Caillou\" opens up to vast spaces and the world around us. The tone is set from the first seconds, with the sounds of thunder and insects that open \"Le chant des pistes,\" a captivating meditation on the successive transformations of landscapes over time, and on the traces we will retain of bygone or disappearing eras. The vocabulary of nature and elements is omnipresent on the album. The question of connection—with others, nature, or the social body—runs through the album like a common thread. While the voice carrying the songs is crystalline in its softness, it confidently questions our relationship with our surroundings and seeks out the beauty of moments and exchanges that enrich our lives. Gisèle Pape conceived, arranged, and produced these ten tracks solo, but she enlisted the external perspective of Xavier Thiry (producer\/arranger for Fishbach and La Féline) throughout the recording and mixing process to help her move in the desired direction: that of an album more pop in its structures, more rhythmic and more embodied, where the voice finds its rightful place within a rich musical texture. While the themes addressed are sometimes dark, the songs lean towards a form of hope by exploring the place we choose to occupy here and now and the spaces for reverie we can build within it. \"Caillou\" is a bridge stretched between yesterday and tomorrow, between cities and plains, between the intimate and the world: a beautiful, luminous album carried by a poetic breath, offering warmth in difficult times.","brand":"Gisèle Pape","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55307886526808,"sku":null,"price":23945652.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0898\/4943\/0360\/files\/3700604732600_8e9bdb72-a6ca-40d9-96cf-7b1681aad388.jpg?v=1760307735","url":"https:\/\/vinyles.com\/en-us\/products\/gisele-pape_caillou_2021_dif","provider":"Vinyles.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}