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01. Jean-Marie Mercimek - Le Camion
02. Jean-Marie Mercimek - Jambe De Cuir
03. Jean-Marie Mercimek - Une Bouche Regardee
04. Jean-Marie Mercimek - Sommeil Lointain
05. Jean-Marie Mercimek - Un Point Sur La Carte
06. Jean-Marie Mercimek - A La Peche O Crevetes
07. Jean-Marie Mercimek - Fievreuse
08. Jean-Marie Mercimek - Ouvrir Et Recoudre
09. Jean-Marie Mercimek - Sanguine
10. Jean-Marie Mercimek - D'Ombres
ARTIST
TITLE
Dans Le Camion De Marguerite Duras
FORMAT
LP

LABEL
CATALOG #
ZORN 109LP ZORN 109LP
GENRE
RELEASE DATE
6/20/2025

"The road is a wrinkled timeline. Uncanny flatness conceals unfolding textures, transparent layers and open tabs. The truck cuts the landscape, tracing the road with a line of mad logic that composites time, space, thought. On Dans Le Camion de Marguerite Duras, French duo Jean-Marie Mercimek have returned with a road movie for the blind. Composed and recorded by Marion Molle and Ronan Riou over six years across France and Belgium, this unlikely distillation of microtonal MIDI composition, French B.O., and post-punk chansons brazenly expands the duos' penchant for lowkey narrative spectacle. Across Le Camion, sounds form a theatrical screen. Our ears are the curtains drawn wide and listening with a look that pans across the shot. No title cards, they cut straight to action. The truck is a camera, zooming and framing the tracks as scenes. Songwriting and sound design blur in a tangle of delicate economy. The balance of mutant music-boxes and dewy miniatures recalls otherworldly hits from Gareth Williams' Flaming Tunes, Residents, and catchier corners of the Lovely Music catalog. Strange, sure, but this flick is never quite a cartoon. Molle and Riou's vocals dilate into a cast of very human characters. Voices sing borrowed texts like untrained actors (playing themselves, in fact) stepping into the frame once before disappearing forever. And when they're gone, you miss them. But here in the truck, it all comes back again under the cyclic spell of repose in perpetual motion. Turn up the radio and appuyez sur le champignon." --Turner Williams Jr.