Live

Description

Recorded in spring 2003, High Tone Live is a selection of 11 tracks taken from the albums Low Tone, Opus Incertum, Bass Température and ADN - Acid Dub Nucleik, with revisited versions of Dehli Katmandou, Enter the Dragon, and 2 unreleased tracks, 112 Dub & Onew Dub. Lovers of indie music from the 60s to today, High Tone has always known how to digest a varied musical panorama as much as the key technological elements of each of these decades: wah guitar from the 70s, synths from the 80s, turntablism and samplers from the 90s, and electro software from the 2000s. Because going beyond the framework of style to speak only of music has always been their only credo. High Tone has often alternated the typology of its records between experimentation and maturation. The first releases were spontaneous, with no particular search for mastery, magmatic, while Wave Digger or Out Back were albums of change. This album continues in the same vein as No border, the second CD of Out Back. The main theme of Ekphrön is travel. Initially conceived as the geographical journey that permeates their music, travel has moved from the macrocosm to the microcosm, to focus on the inner experience from which the opus takes its name. What happens when you close your eyes? Literally from the Greek meaning out of mind, the title refers to the trance that music can induce, that moment of loss of the common senses, the breaking point, the break from reality, the forgetting of oneself. Of course, the “physical” journey is still present in the background. Ancient, archaic, traditional, spiritual music, fused with the urban, concrete, electronics as an attempt to harmonize the world. The guests themselves - exclusively friends - are in the image of this cosmopolitanism. Vincent Segal, half of Bumcello, internationally renowned cellist (he regularly plays with Blackalicious, among others) is the group’s first instrumental featuring! Also featured is American rapper Oddateee, with whom High Tone had already collaborated on Out Back and Fool, as well as Shanti D on the single. A puzzling title for anyone who has not absorbed the few lines written above. But that is how it is with this group: alternately surprising or reassuring, it will never deliver any message in black and white.