ROAD TO GRASSLANDS (vinyl)

Description

For this 14th album, L'ATTIRAIL, still led by Xavier Demerliac, expands its music of wide open spaces into a road trip crossing the Great Plains. After notably a trilogy of a fantasized Wild West (FIP selection) and a latest release, 'Footsteps in the Snow' (also a FIP selection), which marked a return to broad influences enlarging the group’s geographical scope, in an atmosphere blending exploration, expeditions, social banditry, nomadism and gold fever, 'Road to Grasslands' is conceived as a musical road movie in around fifteen tracks. As always with L'Attirail, the album will be made up of accessible, imaginative and transglobal music which, without championing any particular culture, is naturally drawn to the timbres of world music. The tracks will evolve without being unnecessarily complex, with a variety of sounds, rhythms and tones, favoring small arrangements and twists and turns without ever becoming verbose. The story of the Great Plains is a multifaceted one: we will encounter Hobos and other Okies fleeing west after the Great Depression and the Dust Bowl, but also a bucolic and rural America, and of course great straight roads stretching as far as the eye can see, like the famous Mother Road.