"The artists of les 'heures claires' were offered the following prompt: Imagine stumbling upon an old box in the attic of your family home, long unopened; this music might be whatever you find inside. That is, music that reaches towards a memory of memories, reimagined.

Abstractions like imagination and memory are both mutable and dense with vivid details and the songs on 'les heures claires' toy with similar dualities. Across the collection, we’re invited into tracks that juggle the elaborate and the minimal, tangle simple circuitries of thought, weigh distance and immediacy, trace intricate impressions and playfully take on nostalgia sideways and upside-down.

The collection also orients around an eloquent sense of the analog, expressed, among other sounds, in echoes of hollow music boxes, well-worn guitars and dusty electronics that whistle and hum like a creaking house. Together, 'les heures claires' embraces a patchwork of images and gestures in tender conversation."

mastering by theodore cale schafer
artwork by yannis arnouil
words by natalia panzer