Roads vol.1

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Thylacine returns with a new journey "Roads Vol.1", as captivating as ever. It was in Argentina that the rising star of the French electro scene decided to record his second album. Following up on "Transsiberrian", his first brilliant effort recorded in 2015 aboard the train linking Moscow to Vladivostok, William Rezé aka Thylacine treated himself to a 1972 caravan, the famous all-aluminum Airstream. Once beautifully transformed by his own hands into a recording studio, he shipped his American beauty on a cargo vessel to pick it up a month later in Buenos Aires. Destination: the Andes Cordillera. After ten stops in the middle of nowhere, he returns with ten tracks that wonderfully combine the airy melodies of Moderat, the sunny touch of a Nicola Cruz, and the techno power of a Paul Kalkbrenner. An electronica sometimes brimming with saxophone, his instrument of choice learned from the age of six at the conservatory, to which are added voices, such as those of Julia Minkin (from Kid Francescoli), Clara Trucco, member of the trio Femina, or Juana Molina "considered the Argentine Bjork," explains Thylacine. "I felt like returning to music with more acoustic sounds." Mission accomplished: the vaporous synth pads of the young man from Angers are tinged with charango, a local instrument, or melodies inspired by traditional songs. And the tracks flow one after another, telling his extraordinary odyssey: the hypnotic "The Road" bears witness to the miles of straight lines traveled, the catchy refrain of "Santa Barbara" evokes the close bonds forged with the inhabitants of a tiny village in the Andes, while the rhythm of "4500 m", interspersed with the flow of American rapper J. Medeiros, recalls the altitude of the desert where Thylacine stayed to sleep, stranded by storms of rare intensity. Three months later and ten thousand kilometers further, this "concept album" is ready; it is called "Roads vol. 1". First episode of a collection that Thylacine, at the age of twenty-six, intends to enrich with each of his travels. His mobile studio, cleverly equipped with solar panels, will take him, one hopes, very far.