Quatre ans après l’inénarrable « Cerf Biche et Faon », « Kiss me you fool ! » nous emmène au loin, dans des nuées de sons et de contes sentimentaux biscornus, vers une quête d’illumination qui traverse la riche palette des passions humaines.

Le titre est emprunté à un graffiti découvert dans les toilettes pour dames d’un pub londonien. C’est par ce judas qu’on envisage, en voyeur, la complexité paradoxale de ce disque :

À la fois spirituel, noble et dégénéré, Julien s’y pavane avec la nonchalance d’un dandy noctambule. Troubadour des temps modernes, il y chante l’amour irrésolu, les trivialités du quotidien, la quête d’absolu et l’autodérision.

Fruit d’une collaboration artistique d’excellence: Lætitia Sadier, Syd Kemp, John Linger, Cathy Lucas, Joe Watson... ce disque contrasté et émotif, hétérogène, forme pourtant un tout.

Ici s’enchaînent avec élégance et jeux de miroirs, chansons surréalistes et poèmes décadents, séductions sans efforts appuyés. À rebours des normes actuelles, “Kiss me you fool !”, cultive son identité forte loin des mondanités musicales contemporaines.

en anglais:

Four years after the inenarrable “Cerf, Biche et Faon”, “Kiss me, you fool!” leads us far far away, into swarms of sound and sentimental, twisted tales, on a quest for illumination that traverses the rich palette of human passions.

The title was taken from a graffiti discovered in the ladies’ toilets of a London pub.
It is through this peephole that we consider, like a voyeur, the paradoxical complexity of this album:

At once witty, noble and degenerate, Julien struts his way through it with all the nonchalance of a night-owl dandy. A troubadour of modern times, he sings of unresolved love, self-mockery, the trivialities of daily life and the search for the Absolute.

The fruit of an exceptional artistic collaboration Lætitia Sadier, Syd Kemp, John Linger, Cathy Lucas, and Joe Watson, this contrasting, emotional and heterogenous album nonetheless forms a whole. Here, mirror plays, surrealistic songs and decadent poems unfold elegantly, seductive in their effortlessness. Countering the current norms, “Kiss me, you fool!” cultivates its powerful identity far from today’s musical cliques and fads.

released November 11, 2016

Lætitia Sadier - vocals
Cathy Lucas - vocals
Olia Eichenbaum - vocals
Catherine Hershey - vocals
Fanny Harnay - drums
John Linger - guitar
Harry Bohay - pedal steel guitar
Syd Kemp - bass
Cédric Monzali - drums
Emmanuel Mario - drums
Joseph Watson - piano
Jonathan Kouby - synths
Eno Inwang - drums, percussions

All songs written by Julien Gasc
Except "La Cure" written by Julien Gasc / Erin Birgy



Recorded at Record In Peace Studios London between july / august 2015

Vocals (except vocals on "Kiss Me You Fool !"), Ondioline on "Luke Howard", Piano on "Circle Bar" recorded at Studio Spectral Paris by Robin Leduc / Syd Kemp between november / december 2015

Mixed by Syd Kemp / Audrey Ginestet / Julien Gasc

Produced by Syd Kemp / Julien Gasc

Mastered by Jérémy Henry La Villa Mastering Studio Montreuil

Photographs taken by Elliott Arndt

Graphic Design by Sébastien Trihan / Julien Gasc

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