CELLULE (vinyl)

Description

A FUSION OF SLAM, POST-ROCK, AND CONTEMPORARY JAZZ A unique group founded by Romain Dugelay, Polymorphie is an adventure into unexplored musical territories. Now composed of 6 musicians, Polymorphie brings together a voice, two saxophones, as many keyboards, a baritone guitar, and drums. An unprecedented geometric prism serving a fused and breathless sound. In their new album Cellule, Polymorphie reconnects with literary material. While the previous opus Voix tackled Nick Cave, Polymorphie here takes on authors who once experienced incarceration. Cellule thus presents a selection of powerful texts, written in detention by Oscar Wilde, Jean Zay, Albertine Sarrazin, Paul Verlaine, and Xavier, an anonymous inmate. To set these texts to music, Romain Dugelay orchestrates an alternation of minimalist, almost ghostly passages, and sonic explosions that seize you. A sharp voice, as clear as it is striking, ethereal melodies or epic orchestrations, shifting rhythms... Polymorphie creates a fascinating junction between polyrhythms inherited from traditional music, rock distortions, the chanted prayers of urban poetry, and the intrepid tightrope walking of improvisation. Beyond an inventory of its influences, Polymorphie is above all a pulsation, a catch in the throat, a lump ready to unfold. The music as a whole is here narration, poetry, and is conjugated in the future perfect. It will therefore be a delicate task to classify such an experience. But if a synthesis between slam, post-rock, and contemporary jazz exists, it is highly probable that you will experience it here.