Feu Therese - Ca Va Cogner

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4...according to our Ant on Thu 04 Oct, 2007.

Feu Therese I'm told is some French Canadian God Speed related thing. Phil told me cos he knows everything about Godspeed related things. Second track on 'Ca Va Cogner', 'Visage Sous Nylon' is a Giorgio Moroder inspired synth pop track It's a bit of a strange one this... There's a bit of a 70's synth prog thing happening here along with experimental pop elements, abstract sound scapes, lush electronics, children singing etc. The whole shebang like! I like listening to children singing. Yesterday my two and a half year old son got up and sang a little song for everyone at nursery. He's the future John Lydon. The cheeky little scamp.I always think of Constellation as a post-rock label but recently they've been branching out.

Feu Therese caught spark from the embers of Fly Pan Am's break-up in
2005, when FPA guitarist Jonathan Parant joined forces with longtime
collaborators Alex St-Onge (bass, electronics) and Stephen de Oliveira
(synths, voice) to form the new group. Painter turned drummer Luc Paradis
completed the new line-up.
*Their debut self-titled album, released on Constellation in spring 2006,
expanded on FPA's sonic agenda, while relying more on instrumental juxtaposit
-ions - rather than electronic interventions or intentional sabotage at the
mixing desk - to hijack the music.
*Ca Va Cogner sticks to these conceptual guns, as Feu Thérèse aims to
recuperate and re-cast a 'synthetic' music that intentionally eschews the
codified elements of 21st-century electro nostalgia: the 'cool' analogue keys,
the heavy bass & drum mix, the overwrought faux-primitivism.
*Feu Therese embrace unfashionable synth stabs and arpeggiators, riding
them high in the mix, along with the vocals, delivered with unapologetically
forward, spoken-sung deliberateness by de Oliveira (in a clear nod to the
poetics and production values of 1970s/80s French chansonniers).
*Ca Va Cogner is available on CD and 180g LP, with artwork by Luc Paradis
and photography by Vincent Lafrance. Thanks for listening.
*Tracklisting: 01. À Nos Amours 02. Visage Sous Nylon 03. Les De?serts Des
Azurs 04. Le Bruit Du Pollen La Nuit 05. Nada 06. C?a Va Cogner 07. Les
Enfants 08. Ferrari En Feu (Pt.2) 09. La Nuit Est Une Femme 10. Laisse
Briller Tes Yeux Danse Le Soleil