06 febbraio 2023

 

Se si è impazienti di sentire qualcosa in anticipo rispetto all'uscita ufficiale del nuovo sorprendente album degli Aksak Maboul - il titolo è Une aventure de VV (Songspiel) ed è inserito nella storica serie Made to Measure di Crammed Discs - su Bandcamp c'è già un primo brano, Talking with the Birds.

In the wake of their acclaimed comeback album Figures (2020), Aksak Maboul took a playful sideways step to create this total work, a 63-minute, continuous suite of fifteen pieces, which could be described as an experimental audio play. The thread running through Une aventure de VV (Songspiel) is Véronique Vincent’s text, an enigmatic philosophical-poetical tale unfolding through monologues and dialogues, spoken and sung by a series of characters, played by Alig Fodder, Laetitia Sadier, Audrey & Benjamin from Aquaserge, Don The Tiger, Blaine L. Reininger, and the members of Aksak Maboul’s current live band: Faustine Hollander, Lucien Fraipont and Erik Heestermans.