Live

Description

Recorded in spring 2003, High Tone Live is a selection of 11 tracks from the albums Low Tone, Opus Incertum, Bass Température and ADN - Acid Dub Nucleik, with revisited versions of Dehli Katmandou, Enter the Dragon, and 2 unreleased tracks, 112 Dub & Onew Dub. Lovers of indie music from the 60s to today, High Tone has always skillfully assimilated a varied musical panorama as well as the key technological elements of each decade: wah guitar from the 70s, synths from the 80s, turntablism and samplers from the 90s, and electronic software from the 2000s. Because transcending style to focus solely on music has always been their sole creed. High Tone has often alternated the typology of its records between experimentation and maturation. The first opuses were spontaneous, without a particular quest for mastery, molten, whereas Wave Digger or Out Back were albums of change. This album follows in the continuity of No Border, the second CD of Out Back. The primary theme of Ekphrön is travel. Initially conceived as the geographical journey that permeates their music, the journey has moved from the macrocosm to the microcosm, to focus on the inner experience after which the opus is named. What happens when you close your eyes? Literally from the Greek "out of mind," the title refers to the trance that music can induce, that moment of losing common senses, the breaking point, the detachment from reality, self-forgetfulness. Of course, the "physical" journey is always present in the background. Ancient, archaic, traditional, spiritual music, fused with the urban, concrete, electronic, as an attempt to harmonize the world. The guests themselves - exclusively friends - reflect this cosmopolitanism. Vincent Segal, half of Bumcello, an internationally renowned cellist (he regularly plays with Blackalicious, among others) is the group's first instrumental feature! We also find American rapper Oddateee, with whom High Tone had already collaborated on Out Back and Fool, as well as Shanti D on the single. A perplexing title for those who haven't assimilated the few lines written above. But that's how it is with this group: by turns surprising or comforting, they will never deliver any message in black and white.