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Accidental experimental trap

The duo freely plays pseudo hip hop from another land, in French that also seems foreign. Drums and clarinet blow into oscillators generating bugs, synthesizers granulating freezes, like a sprawling mass of crazy energies laughing at the growing chaos. All this to nod your head and sway your membranes.

Continuing the LFant solo project, Guilhem Meier (Poil, Ukandanz) decided to improvise experimental hip hop with microtonal autotune alongside Pierre Horckmans (Watch Dog).

Guilhem writes lyrics in unconscious French on the margins of explicit meaning. Automatic writing, reshaped in a game of far-fetched assonance, creates an incredible story that makes you want to sing it in every position.

The duo plays with these lyrics, which have become mythological for them, in a wobbly dance on false loops. The voice, chanted or sung, is at the center of their instrumental improvisation, with a baroque style that would make small music stores jealous. With pedals under and on their feet, they demonize their acoustic sounds and generate a discontinuous flow of granular or gaseous matter, depending on their mood.

You can hear K. Dick, Jodorowsky, Balavoine, or Henri Guillemin, groove to the rut of the stag or the song of the whale, in the temple of a Yunnan forest or in an igloo when the fishing has been good. These associations weave a patchwork reminiscent of a joyful and chaotic gangsta.

With a long history of collaboration in various groups (Le Grand Sbam-Janus, Pili Coït et les Exocrines, Argot Lunaire, etc.), the two musicians, whose careers defy classification (contemporary classical, strange jazz, and experimental rock), provoke sonic accidents and enjoy making listeners cry and tremble through their third eye.

A future niche mainstream band.