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BLACKTHREAD
THE WAY YOU HAUNT MY DREAMS
NAHAL006
A child of punk and noise, Pierre G. Desenfant, under the Blackthread monicker, pursues the multiple incantations of an immersive and inner quest, carved from the limbo of his own dreams, cinematographic miniatures where the intimacy of words and spoken word meets the chiseled luxury of analog machines.
In his songs of a new century, Blackthread experiments with the precision of the scalpel, an outstanding storyteller floating on vaporous synthetic mist. Sumptuous magnetic clouds in which balances an emaciated bass, choirs on the horizon, a soul keyboard or a minimal, almost hypnotic beat. We slide between scenes in sequences, carried by the echo of this voice dancing between the murmuring and the sung, hints of Gil-Scott Heron flirt with Pansonic, Coil and Enoesque ambience.
Written and constructed for three years, his third album 'The Way You Haunt My Dreams' was recorded with urgency in only a few days, with the contribution of sounds from friends (Béatrice Morel, Frédéric D. Oberland & Stéphane Pigneul from Oiseaux-Tempête, Rémi Dulaurier) and the complicity of Johannes Buff (Zombie Zombie, Lee Ranaldo and The Dust, Enablers) in the mix. Contemporary photographer Gaël Bonnefon illustrates the album with his striking silver-toned clichés.
Sparkling with a sensitive bark and piercing directly the heart, Blackthread delivers with 'The Way You Haunt My Dreams' a black and red diamond, addictive hollywood wandering, already blending into the night to haunt dreams in technicolor.
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"Blackthread is a story of development. Removing the traditional guitars and drums of noise rock in which he made his more conventional apprenticeship, Pierre G. Desenfant has reached a minimalistic formula in finding a new path. Constructed with minimal tools (a bass, analog synthesizers and his voice), his music, after these few years, expresses a plethora of sounds and feelings. Spoken words, whispers and explosions, this disciple of Brian Eno, Silver Apples and Alva Noto writes a beatless techno, rock devoid of guitar, an ambient enhanced with texts of icy beauty.
With "The Way You Haunt My Dreams", Blackthread grapples with the tension of a certain genre of dark rock and literary post punk superimposed in ambient music. Continuing with this sense of mood, Desenfant succeeds with this new album in developing a rare songwriting in experimental synth music. Blackthread is also a story of the voice. Never suffocated by acoustic research, the words of the vocalist give this disc its depth of personality, somewhere between neuroleptic reverie and confrontation with the musician's catharsis."
A.D (translated by Gareth L. Davis)
www.nahalrecordings.net
released May 17, 2019
Blackthread is Pierre G. Desenfant
Béatrice Morel Journel sings on Ghost
Frédéric D. Oberland plays piano on I Live In A Tree
Remi Dulaurier plays drums on I'll Keep Daydreaming...
Stéphane Pigneul plays guitar on Got To Give Me Shelter
Recorded by Pierre G. Desenfant // Mixed by Johannes Buff at End Note Studio // Mastered by James Plotkin // Photographs by Gaël Bonnefon
gaelbonnefon.org // Artwork by Thibault Proux
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TSUGI (FR) - "Le mariage princier du post-punk et de l'ambient."
XLR8R (USA) - 'Mysterious and strangely calming, 'The Way You Haunt My Dreams' sees Desenfant grapple with the tension of a certain genre of dark rock and the literary post punk, all superimposed on ambient music. It features spoken word, aimed to give depth and personality to the music.'
GONZAÏ (FR) - "Aussi éblouissant que sombre, Blackthread joue des contrastes et c’est une pépite brute qui côtoie le sublime. Inclassable."
NEW NOISE MAGAZINE (FR) - "Funambule, Blackthread apparaît nu et fragile, voué aux tourments de ses propres fantômes, avec comme seule issue possible notre écoute."
RESIDENT ADVISOR (UK) - 'Ethereal spoken-word bluesy beats from Blackthread's new album on NAHAL Recordings, the sister label to French platform In Paradisum, which offers a more introspective and eerie approach.'
DES CENDRES À LA CAVE (FR) - "Une scansion lointaine, des nappes éthérées mais enveloppantes, quelques percussions discrètes distribuées avec parcimonie : The Way You Haunt My Dreams ne fait pas de bruit mais accroche durablement. Une gageure. Un ensorcellement presque."
SEEKSICKSOUND (FR) - "Des paysages sombres et oniriques, au sein desquels chaque sonorité se fait évocatrice, tendant tour à tour vers la mélancolie ou l’étrangeté."
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