{"product_id":"monolithe-noir_rin-vinyl_2022_lad","title":"RIN (vinyl)","description":"Rin means 'secret' in Breton. 'Rin' is also an album dotted with Breton idioms: Finvus, Askre, Balafenn, Brik. Monolithe Noir’s second album, *Moira* (Kowtow Records, 2020), was an invitation to chase away dusty demons, to stir up the past, and gave pride of place to repetition and the search for textures. And just as every album is a journey, and sometimes a way of contradicting what one had painstakingly tried to convey before, *Rin* takes the opposite tack to *Moira*. It de-compartmentalizes, favors movement, forgives error, and ultimately, has fun. Recorded and mixed between a cellar, two apartments, and a family home, this third Monolithe Noir album became more porous to the environments in which it was conceived. 'Rin' was created in tranquility and, for the first time, collaboratively, with Yannick Dupont (Yokaï, Jahwar, Ottla) as a chosen accomplice. The aim was to let in light, to breathe, and to open up to a more flexible, more lively, less metronomic way of writing music. Brittany, the desire to rediscover and reconnect with it, was central to the album's writing and the imagery that emanates from it. Sunken lanes, gnarled and stocky trees, chiseled coastlines, moorland, Brest, isolated villages, peri-urban areas, a nuclear power plant in the heart of the Monts d'Arrée. And as much bad weather as clear spells. *Rin* explores many different landscapes without trying to drop the listener into the middle of a forest. One can stroll with one's nose in the air, take deep breaths, then, as night falls, quicken one's pace towards home. A hurdy-gurdy, made from recycled materials scavenged from the street, an old harmonium found at the end of a flea market, and recorders appear on *Rin* (alongside synthesizers, bass, and drums) and perpetuate the presence of continuous sound by exploring other textures, more acoustic but always a little twisted. Although they were composed and refined in a state of appeasement, the tracks on *Rin* are still permeated by tension, anger, and thunder. Perhaps one can discern throughout this album a voice that seems to speak to another, urging it to be more measured, but the conflict always remains. The voice makes an appearance on Finvus and more subtly on Brik and Landmaerck. Furtive, it is not there to gather the instruments around it; rather, it blends into them. Jawhar Basti haunts \"Barra Bouge\" with a feverish and haunting chant. Mirabelle Gillis (Miossec, Hakim Hamadouche, François Joncour) lacerates her violin with dissonant strokes before tearing through the clouds of an overly oppressive \"Barra Bouge.\"","brand":"Monolithe Noir","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55310223409496,"sku":null,"price":20220923.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0898\/4943\/0360\/files\/5412690057618_64fe3bfc-89aa-4001-843d-35417ae6b7e7.jpg?v=1760318983","url":"https:\/\/vinyles.com\/en\/products\/monolithe-noir_rin-vinyl_2022_lad","provider":"Vinyles.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}