Wow gazoline by NOUVELLES LECTURES COSMOPOLITES

NLC's latest studio album, music for road trips.

Cet album est léger, presque désinvolte, et grave aussi. Désinvolte car c'est la bande-son d'un road movie dans le Nord-Est des U.S.A., à l'époque où l'essence là-bas était à un prix dérisoire et permettait des escapades insensées, qui maintenant paraîtraient irresponsables. Grave car le voyage, surtout nocturne, dans un pays inconnu, réveille en nous des fantasmes enfouis, des peurs presque infantiles, et nous permet des rencontres parfois surréalistes. Et à un moment, on se retrouve dans la peau de Candace/Mary dans le Carnaval des Âmes de Herk Harvey, que l'on entend dans l'album. On ne reconnaît plus le monde alentour. Non pas que ce monde a changé, mais comme on le découvre lors du pitch final, que c'est nous qui avons changé. Bon voyage...

This album is light, almost casual, and serious too. Offhand because it's the soundtrack of a road movie in the Northeast of the U.S.A., at the time when gaZoline there was at a ridiculous price and allowed insane escapades, which now would seem irresponsible. Serious because the journey, especially at night, in an unknown country, awakens in us buried phantasms, almost infantile fears, and allows us sometimes surreal encounters. And at one point, we find ourselves in the skin of Candace/Mary in Herk Harvey's Carnival of Souls, which we hear on the album. We no longer recognize the world around us. Not that this world has changed, but as we discover during the final pitch, it is we who have changed. Have a nice trip...

Tracklist

1.	Crossing white lines	4:57

2.	Préparez-vous à continuer tout droit	3:03

3.	Stormy weather around the highway	4:33

4.	The homemade apple pie motel episode	6:02

5.	My friends were driving east and fell asleep	7:13

6.	Chroniques de la pénétrante nord	2:37

7.	The party's basin	3:26

8.	Another messy afternoon at the pub (album version)	3:46

9.	The place where the branches dip into the river	6:03

10.	Meanwhile in the lunar module	7:11

11.	The lost road to Hyphytrio	10:12

Credits

released March 3, 2023

Julien Ash : synths, piano, recording, mixing, editing.
Aloïs L. : alto sax, violin, synths and beats, digital mastering.

With : Pierre-Yves Lebeau : guitars
Wolf City : guitars
François Porte : flûte
Fab Wycz : beats
PrOphecy Sun : voices

Cover photos by Ash

License

CC BY-NC-ND 3.0. See the Creative Commons website for details.