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REC 136LP
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Tristesse Contemporaine - Act III, Scene 1. After the first album, the self-titled Tristesse Contemporaine (DL 017LP, 2012) which was a form of a declaration of independence, and the second album Stay Golden (REC 101LP, 2013) rising above the rest, their third, Stop And Start will come to close the existing trilogy, and begin a new cycle. The trio at the head of this veritable voyage through time and space is a motley crew that found each other in Paris: Narumi from Japan, Maik from England via Jamaican roots, and Leo from Sweden. The essence of what they play as Tristesse Contemporaine is two chords, minimal instrumentation, all mixed with maximum reverb. This is a particular idea of "less is more" which is more applicable to pop music. Abandoning "the middle of the road", the band focused on ten tracks where they put their cards on the table and the petal to the metal. Comes with a download card.
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REC 111EP
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The glowing introduction and cornerstone of Stay Golden (REC 101LP), the second album by Tristesse Contemporaine, "Fire" reveals an attitude très pop from the Paris-based trio. This is what happens when they choose to play with matches and burn our fingers. Dark, sexy, and catchy, "Fire" has inspired four distinguished remixers to give us their vision of this very contagious song: house and soul from Clément ASWF, Hispanic and cinematic from Daniel Maloso, tropical and funky from Hypnolove, electro and dreamy from Kasper Bjørke.
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REC 101LP
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A stateless trio (Narumi is Japanese, Maïk is English, and Leo is Swedish), Tristesse Contemporaine chose Paris as their battleground. The sound of their first self-titled album, produced by Pilooski (Discodeine) in 2012 (DL 017LP), was immediately praised among the music scene and critics -- raw and minimal, catchy yet mesmerizing, both poppy and spleen-heavy. Equally inspired by the ghosts of shoegaze, Krautrock and Madchester, they aimed to write the soundtrack of an era that got lost into the nights. Songs like "I Didn't Know," "Daytime Nighttime," "In the Wake," and "Hell is Other People" set catwalks (Chanel) on fire along with the music press and live venues, as much in France (where they opened for Pulp at the Olympia) as elsewhere, including Russia and Eastern Europe. After the Woodwork EP, which announced the start of a new collaboration with the label Record Makers (and their original home, Dirty), Tristesse Contemporaine returns with a second album, Stay Golden, where the trio reaffirms with nine thrilling songs which stay close to the original DNA while daring to reveal new secrets of their identities. The uplifting pop of "Fire," the abrasive rock "I Do What I Want," through to the surgically-precise house of "Going Out," Stay Golden points the Tristesse Contemporaine projectors to the city skies as well as the twisted dancefloors.
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The Woodwork EP is the second episode of the Tristesse Contemporaine story. This is a definition of their DNA in four new tracks: "Waiting" -- obsessive, haunted, elegiac -- the art of making dead people dance. "Vampires" -- in the shadow of new wave giants, a minimal prayer to make ghosts go away. "Woodwork" -- sun-drenched and languid, this is Tristesse Contemporaine's very own version of a praise for patience. "Low Tide" puts things back on the dancefloor for a perverted, drug-induced nursery rhyme.
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Highly anticipated since their first EP, 51 Ways To Leave Your Lover, which broke its way into the hearts of all who heard it, Tristesse Contemporaine have perfected this magic by taking it all the way to the Parisian and French stages. Crystalline arpeggios, dreamy loops and whispered vocals create a world of destabilizing and refined emotions which carry a thrilling light to the darkened dancefloors. The trio of enigmatic donkey-masked singer, Maik, Leo on guitars and Narumi on synthesizers, trusted their minimalist melodies to the expert hands of DJ/producer, Pilooski. Romantic and flamboyant, arrogant and haunting, this first album imagines a world in chiaroscuro, where the electrical illuminations of shoegazing merge with electronic beats, with a heightened new wave sensitivity. Climb to the dark side of modern pop as you enter the fractured, hypnotic dance of Tristesse Contemporaine.
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