Pensées, by Le Non-Savoir

Pensées

by Le Non-Savoir

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1.	A1. Le Jeu Politique 05:04	buy track
2.	A2. Il Est Des Nuits 00:48	buy track
3.	A3. Ordre Providentiel 03:31	buy track
4.	B1. La Mort 05:32	buy track
5.	B2. Le Non-Savoir 00:48	buy track
6.	B3. Nos Mauvais Penchants 03:16	buy track

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Our 26th release is here : forget the springtime sun coming to welcome the idea of your imminent death and the burden of your torturing consciousness. Etang Brulant is honored to welcome Le Non-Savoir, an inspired side project of the infamous synth-punkies Blind Delon, french duo originated from the South of France and L'Homme Qui Lit Tout, a mysterious narrator.

Le Non-Savoir, initially a proposition of Mathis Kolkoz and L'Homme Qui Lit Tout, offers us «Pensées », their first solo release : a 6-track cluster build on Emil Cioran’s thoughts, focusing on his book « De l’incovénient d’être né » (1973) and dedicated to his gloomy moods or cynical views of mankind. This musical essay, melting dark ambient and noise music, subtly dystopic and frankly pessimistic, seems to have been composed during sleepless nights and panic attacks.

In each track of the project, a masculine voice (L’homme qui lit tout) emerges from noisy landscapes and epic melodies, reminding journalistic tones or theatrical declamations. The spasmodic rhythm and the almost-guttural texture of the voice, sometimes serious, sometimes almost bossy, underlines the dramatic implications of the text, read (and written by Cioran) in french. The whole EP, logically pushing the listener towards sensations of distress, is a call to reflexion, an urge to thinking about our human condition and its absurdity. An instruction manual for people wishing to explore negativity and their contradictions without a passive behavior, looking forward to rummage the bottom of their mind by a cold-blooded moment of clarity.

A precise sound design escorts the words, their meaning, and give to the speaker a sense of stability in his feverish diatribes. Despite the darkness of all this thoughts, beauty appears suddenly throughout the contrast of harsh frequencies and gentle melodies (« Le Jeu Politique », « La Mort »), and two rhythmic skits (« Il Est Des Nuits », « Le Non-Savoir ») break the lethargy of these ambient constructions in a refreshing feeling of awakening. Unless the awakening actually triggers the start of the nightmare.

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released March 19, 2021

Produced by Mathis Kolkoz & Coco Thiburs
Vocals by L'Homme Qui Lit Tout
Texts from Émil Cioran, “De l'inconvénient d'être Né” 1973 & "Histoire et Utopie (1960)"

"La conscience est bien plus que l'écharde,
elle est le poignard dans la chair."
E.M.C.

Artwork and lettering by Léa Maria
Layout by Victor Louis
Tapes recorded in Paris by Chance Vrs

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