Roads Volume 1

Description

Thylacine returns with a new journey, "Roads Vol. 1," just as captivating as ever. It is in Argentina that the young star of the French electro scene decided to record his second album. Following "Transsiberria," his first brilliant effort recorded in 2015 aboard the train that connects Moscow to Vladivostok, William Rezé, aka Thylacine, acquired a 1972 caravan, the famous all-aluminum Airstream. Once beautifully transformed by him into a recording studio, he shipped his beautiful American on a cargo ship to retrieve it a month later in Buenos Aires. Destination: the Andes Mountains. 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 Nicola Cruz, and the techno power of Paul Kalkbrenner. An electronica sometimes filled with saxophone, his preferred instrument learned at the conservatory from the age of six, complemented by vocals from Julia Minkin (of Kid Francescoli), Clara Trucco, a member of the trio Femina, or Juana Molina, "considered the Argentine Björk," Thylacine notes. "I wanted to return to music with more acoustic sounds." Mission accomplished: the vaporous layers of the young Angers native are tinged with charango, a local instrument, or melodies inspired by traditional songs. The tracks flow together, narrating his extraordinary odyssey: the hypnotic "The Road" reflects the miles of straight lines traveled, the catchy refrain of "Santa Barbara" evokes the close ties woven 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 overnight, stranded by storms of rare intensity. Three months later and ten thousand kilometers away, this "concept album" is ready; it is called "Roads Vol. 1." The first episode of a collection that Thylacine, at the age of twenty-six, intends to enrich as he travels. His cleverly equipped mobile studio with solar panels will take him, we hope, very far.