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Puce Moment is part of the French contemporary music scene. Their music is climatic, often inhabited by a strong emotional power. A procession of harmonic structures organized in a ritual way, sometimes close to trance. It can be written or improvised, vocal or instrumental. The electronic and electroacoustic arrangements summon new spaces and abstract landscapes, which can go from the purest sound to the rawest distortions. Vast, slower, deeper -- distant echoes of half-faded things -- and when you are lost, voices appear. Voices whose only reference would be the timeless SeeFeel. Nicolas Devos and Pénélope Michel are visual and sound artists, one trained at the Beaux-Arts and the Fresnoy studio national des arts contemporains and the other a classically trained cellist, singer, and multi-instrumentalist. They created Puce Moment, envisaged as a sound research laboratory open to experimentation, to multi-disciplinary encounters and to decompartmentalization. Their work is akin to a fictional ethnology expressed through protean projects and mutant visual, sound and musical creations. Epic Ellipses is their fourth album. They have composed the original soundtracks of more than a dozen dance performance, fiction or documentary films, virtual reality in variable formats (Christian Rizzo, Mylène Benoit, Vania Vaneau, Benjamin Nuel, Laurent Pernot, Carolina Gonçalves). Or in the form of film-concerts including David Lynch's cult film Eraserhead with which they have toured intensively since 2012 in France and Europe, and since 2019 Koyaanisqatsi, the cult experimental documentary by Godfrey Reggio.
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"Kenneth Anger may not necessarily be the name that will come to mind when listening for the first time -- distracted, confused, disoriented -- to Puce Moment's debut album. Yet it is the only one that will seem relevant upon second listen -- narcotic, infernal, fascinating. Puce Moment does not only borrow a title (of Anger's eighth short film, made in 1949) from the baron noir of experimental cinema. Ghostly wanderings, satanic Masses, mystical romances, mechanical hell: everything in the duo from Lille (France) and their album in the form of an invocation to ancient Sybarite authorities refers to the Californian filmmaker's obsessions. Launched in 2006 by Nicolas Devos and Penelope Michel, along with their project Cercueil (responsible for three albums particularly noteworthy), Puce Moment has so far existed mainly on stage, diluted over time (a handful of concerts only) and image (projections, performances or contemporary dance pieces). Ice, dust and blinding flashes of white light: Puce Moment had the scene and the soul -- only backbone was missing. Isolated in a cabin, the duo composed and recorded nine songs that make up their first album, between spectral marauding ('Moonoom') and drone wizards ('Legacy'), resurrecting old ghosts ('Video Dada' single title survivor of their invisible past), and revealing the first images of a future draped in chrome ('L'ombre,' composed for choreographer Christian Rizzo's new project). Mastered by Joe Lambert (Animal Collective, Young Magic, Dirty Projectors), Puce Moment is both the sum of a singular journey, fueled by forays into dance and cinema -- a confirmation of their simply unreal abilities -- and the beginning of a long and disturbing procession." --Lelo J. Batista; Limited edition of 500 copies, housed in a gatefold sleeve and pressed on white vinyl, including a 24" x 12" professionally printed poster with a download card.
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