Lucien Balconi is a wanderer. On 'Pierre ☆ Feuille ☆ Ciseaux’, his journey takes him from fog-cloaked metropolises to mystical creeks, across deserts at dusk and into the craggy neuro-valleys of memory itself. What he finds is wistful and bittersweet, like the last flickering embers of a fading campfire. This album is a tapestry of half-remembered fleeting moments, blurry daydreams on train rides through rapidly shifting landscapes. Samples of One Tree Hill and Twin Peaks dialogue make strangely affecting cameos, like imagined plot points for a film that’s felt but never seen. Our hero evolves as his story progresses. ‘Pierre Feuille Ciseaux’ takes on a gothed out swagger, ‘Cuore Spezzato’ is fully blissed, shoegazing post-Americana, while 'Los Sabores' sees him unlock a fully levitating, guarachian shaman mode. This is a nu-folktale, as told by verb’d out guitars and slowly unfurling, mist-like textures.
Written and Produced by Lucien Balconi
Artwork by Lucien Balconi
Mastered by Axemblem (f.k.a. cellvl)
Additional Mastering by Lorenzo Targhetta on Tracks 2 & 8
Text by Madjestic Kasual