CELLULE (vinyl)

Description

A SYNTHESIS OF SLAM, POST-ROCK AND CONTEMPORARY JAZZ A singular group founded by Romain Dugelay, Polymorphie is an adventure into unexplored musical territories. Today made up of 6 musicians, Polymorphie brings together a voice, two saxophones, as many keyboards, a baritone guitar and drums. A prism with an unprecedented geometry in the service of a fusion sound that is breathless. On its new album Cellule, Polymorphie reconnects with literary material. While the previous release Voix tackled Nick Cave, Polymorphie here takes on authors who at one time knew incarceration. Cellule thus lets us hear a selection of powerful texts, written in detention by Oscar Wilde, Jean Zay, Albertine Sarrazin, Paul Verlaine and Xavier, an anonymous prisoner. To set these texts to music, Romain Dugelay orchestrates an alternation of minimalist passages, almost ghostly, and sonic blasts that seize you by the blood. A sharp voice, as clear as it is striking, airy melodies or epic orchestrations, shifting rhythms... Polymorphie creates an exciting junction between the polyrhythms inherited from traditional music, the distortions of rock, the chanted orations of urban poetry and the fearless tightrope-walking of improvisation. Beyond the inventory of its influences, Polymorphie is above all a palpitation, a heartbeat, a tight throat ready to unfold. The music here is entirely narration, poetry, and is conjugated in the future perfect. The task will therefore be a delicate one to classify such an experience. But if there is a synthesis between slam, post-rock and contemporary jazz, there is a strong chance that you will experience it here.