Road To Grasslands

Description

For this 14th album, L’ATTIRAIL, still led by Xavier Demerliac, expands its music of wide open spaces in a Road Trip across the Great Plains. - - Following a trilogy of a fantasized Wild West (FIP selection) and a recent release, ‘Footsteps in the Snow’ (also FIP selection), which marked a return to broad influences enlarging the geographical scope of the group, in an atmosphere where exploration, expeditions, social banditry, nomadism, and gold fever mixed, ‘Road to Grasslands’ is conceived as a musical road movie in about fifteen tracks. As always with L’Attirail, the album will feature accessible, imaginative, and transglobal music that, without advocating for any particular culture, is naturally drawn to the timbres of world music. The pieces will evolve without being unnecessarily complex, with a variety of sounds, rhythms, and tonalities, favoring small arrangements and twists without ever becoming verbose. The story of the Great Plains is multifaceted: we will encounter Hobos and other Okies fleeing westward after the Great Depression and the Dust Bowl, as well as a bucolic and rural America, and of course, long straight roads stretching to the horizon, like the famous Mother Road.