{"product_id":"dorian-pimpernel_allombon-vinyl_2014_lad","title":"ALLOMBON (vinyl)","description":"Assiduous practitioners of the magical, cabalistic side of pop music for years (it seems like centuries), the secret society appears to work toward a single goal: to restart the dream and ecstasy machine. Formed in the mid-2000s, it comprises only unique individuals: a discreet drummer \"captivated by Greek antiquity\"; a songwriter who occasionally teaches philosophy and is the author of a book on the aesthetics of American Minimalists; a director-actor-assistant director-composer of film scores (for himself and\/or in collaboration with Serge Bozon or Axelle Ropert, Mehdi Zannad, Pierre Léon...), often seen alongside; an actor-bassist and collector of sound illustration records; and finally, an unwitting spokesperson who long played his guitar in his room \"without ever thinking he'd have the courage to take it out.\" Beyond the usual ambitions of \"a group of friends\" who \"start a rock band,\" these five individuals found common ground in a general disinterest in sports and a strange concept of pop: the esoteric, logically moody, even malevolent little sister of the famous Californian \"sunshine pop.\" The initiator of the movement, Johan, explains: \"At the time, in the mid-2000s, I was listening to sunshine pop records on repeat, and I had conceived of taking this notion in reverse, without postmodern distance or easy irony, and without revivalism either. It was above all a modern proposition, not a simple update of the old according to the flavor of the day, but a way of creating a world by progressively assembling, brick by brick, the sounds, nuances, and intentions that would inhabit it.\" thus creates a world and wishes to immerse you in it so deeply that your dreams and nightmares will be responsible for welcoming its creatures, its melodies, its architectures. Like the great semi-magical, semi-literary books of the Renaissance, half alchemy treatises, half poetry grimoires, creates a world so complex and coherent that each song is both a fragment and a whole to be unfolded. Together or separately, each of the ten songs will therefore merit its exegesis, its footnotes, and all your attention. But let us especially warn the listener who doesn't care about encyclopedias and prefers to explore labyrinths without a map: they have the strict right to proceed blindly, to let themselves be intoxicated with their eyes closed. And if what they encounter along the way is dense, non-linear, layered, what they will hear first is above all melodious, marvelous. Let us recall the beginning of our presentation: the sustained, almost aggressive repetition of the word \"pop.\"","brand":"Dorian Pimpernel","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55310354350424,"sku":null,"price":20140331.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0898\/4943\/0360\/files\/3521381528787_2c1dc0dc-a4d0-4c8f-900e-38560d59eece.jpg?v=1760317150","url":"https:\/\/vinyles.com\/en\/products\/dorian-pimpernel_allombon-vinyl_2014_lad","provider":"Vinyles.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}