CERF BICHE ET FAON

Description

With "Cerf biche et faon," Julien Gasc guides us and scatters us in the forest of his emotions, playing with his ethereal voice and lyrical instrumentation, set against the soft crackling of lo-fi cigarettes. There is an urgency to finish the tracks at all costs, one song per night in a studio at the heart of the stars before a tour in South America; the album contains within it a vital necessity: to write, to heal, to enjoy! He needed to turn a page in his life, a flow, a "jet d'eau," rehearsing for hours on end, opening his grooves to dear ones for soundproofed meetings, in music and smoke. His first solo album after rich collaborations (Aquaserge, Stereolab, April March, Katerine, Burgalat), Julien Gasc reveals more intimately the "diamond" he holds (the artist's stone in his view), to make it resonate on shellac. Most of the songs are resolutely pop, or fueled by his adolescent energy; his artistic and technical maturity does not stifle the freshness and spontaneity reinvented in the moment of recording. Throughout the album, his Rasputin-like beard seduces us, pricks us, bristles us, caresses us. As Arthur Cravan said, "(...) I am all the animals, all the things, all the men (...)," could Julien Gasc be both deer, doe, and fawn? In listening, we feel all the tenderness, violence, and innocence of his humanity; we navigate with him through the four tracks of detachment, fatigue, anger, and indolence. And, like a musical sandman, he comes, gently, to tuck us in with the last songs, lullabies wrapped in angora softness.