Dans Des Lieux

Description

We are Paris Banlieue, a DIY and free-spirited folk, rock, pop, punk, and other music trio, formed in Paris in 2020. Our first album, Gueuseries, with a very DIY and medievalizing style, was released on cassette in 2020 thanks to Renaud Sachet on his label Langue Pendue. He gave us the cover of the first issue of his magazine Groupie. In 2023, the Barcelona-based label Snap Clap Club then produced a vinyl release. The album garnered attention from Big Love Records (Tokyo) to Monorail (Glasgow) and was reviewed by Olivier Lamm in Libération and JD Beauvallet; Stephen Pastel (from the band The Pastels, founder of Monorail Records) even chose it as his "album of the month." Our new album, Dans des lieux, also recorded by Sylvain Quément and supported by the labels Snap Clap Club and Cartelle, is the result of a musical wandering that began several years ago, between France and Spain, with long intermittences. With a guitar, a piano, a trumpet, our voices, a friend on drums, and the invaluable "Dictaphone" app on our phone, accumulating and layering intuitions, we sought to develop the arrangements of our songs, making them denser and more fluctuating. They refer to varied, sometimes opposing, genres and atmospheres. They take place in various locations, evoking significant moments in our lives or drawn from daily experiences and words. For us, they are an opportunity to transform the feeling of being out of step into a joyful celebration of spontaneity and the pleasure of making music.