Playfully mixing and deconstructing various genres to create its own sonic world, the seminal band hasn’t stopped changing shape and form throughout its existence (the only permanent member being its initiator, Crammed Discs boss Marc Hollander). Aksak Maboul now revolves around Hollander & Véronique Vincent. ...
AKSAK MABOUL RELEASE ”TALKING WITH THE BIRDS”
In this first excerpt off Aksak Maboul’s upcoming audio play “Une aventure de VV (Songspiel)”, the protagonist (played by Véronique Vincent, who is also the lyricist) enters a forest and has a conversation with a talking heron (played by Alig Fodder). She then speaks with a robin (Faustine Hollander), and the voices of the woods comment in the background. Composed by Marc Hollander, solely based on vocals, keyboards and electronics, the track evolves through different sections (while playfully nodding to American minimal music from the ‘70s).
Une aventure de VV (Songspiel) is the fifth album by the seminal band helmed by Crmmed Discs founder Marc Hollander. It’s a 63-minute, continuous suite of fifteen pieces.The central thread is an enigmatic philosophical-poetical tale unfolding through monologues, dialogues, spoken and sung by a series of characters. The album weaves strands of electronica, pop, jazz, techno, ambient, improv and more.
