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Les Mortes is an investigation lost in advance, drowned in fragments of stories that come back again and again, told in disorder, illuminated from other angles or revealed by new links. It's a sonic saga that navigates between three musical ensembles with different aesthetics, playing bits and pieces of a whole of which we have only the echo.

Description

Stories of funereal fanfare, voiceless rap, absence and violence, hiding a centre and a purpose so dark that it is all we can see.

Transcribed from the novel 2666 by Roberto Bolaño (Chile, 1953-2003), a text spoken by La Gale spins out endless autopsy reports, the consequences of a very real feminicide. In itself, it encapsulates what inspired the labyrinthine journey of this concert: a fragmented form used as a source of derivation and expansion. A spiral in which certain loops suck us upwards or, on the contrary, accelerate our fall. A spiral whose axis is this text. It gives substance to the mysterious evil around which all of Bolaño's work revolves. It is the only surviving fragment to appear in this concert in a totally dried-up form, at the centre of the sound journey.

The sensation of déjà-vu haunts the listening as it does the reading.

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A Contrechamps/Speckled-Toshe project

Distribution

Contrechamps
Simon Aeschimann : electric guitar
Serge Bonvalot : tuba
Laurent Bruttin : clarinets
Sébastien Cordier : drums
Noëlle Reymond : double bass

Rabasta
Laurent Estoppey : saxophone
David Meier : drum
Benoît Moreau : organ, electronics
Immanuel de Souza : electric guitar

Duo 110
La Gale : voice
Luc Müller : drum

Composition : Benoît Moreau
Text : Roberto Bolaño, La Gale, Benoît Moreau
Sound engineer : Christophe Egea
Recording and mixing : Samuel Albert
Mastering and cut : Frédéric Alstadt
Collections of Fragments : Ariel Garcia
Illustrations : Thibault Messerli
Graphic design : Laurent Schmid from Speckled-Toshe