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Rejoice!

Frédéric L’Epée

Label: Cuneiform Records
Released: 2024
Duration: 01:19
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Tracks

Step Inside La Quatrième Mort/La Vie Lumineuse Concretion Get Lost Fire and Ashes Entanglement Light as a Cloud Rejoice! Berceuse For The Guilty Strange Particles Surrender We Are Heralds The Final Day

Personnel

Frédéric L’Epée

guitar

Laurent James

guitar

Nico Gomez

bass

Volodia Brice

drums

Carla Kihlstedt

violin

Additional Personnel / Information

Frédéric L’Epée: guitar, keyboards, chorus Laurent James: guitar, voice, chorus Nico Gomez: bass, chorus Volodia Brice: drums Carla Kihlstedt: vocals, chorus

Album Description

What primarily gives Rejoice! its sound and its shape came when an online reviewer compared Yang’s previous album, Designed for Disaster, to the dark and psychologically disturbing work of the Bay Area band Sleepytime Gorilla Museum. And while there are similarities, for sure, the notion struck Yang guitarist and composer Frédéric L'Épée as odd, given that he had never heard — or even heard of — his American counterparts. Intrigued, he decided to listen, and found not just a team of kindred spirits, but the perfect singer to bring life to his songs. It’s an ideal match, and one that wound up shaping Rejoice! far more than L'Épée had intended. In writing Designed for Disaster, he explains, he concerned himself with lyrics that were “meant to communicate an impression but not a meaning”. But after having discovered Carla Kihlstedt, he opted to follow a different path. “I started to write the words like I did with Designed for Disaster; not with apparent meaning, but through the sound more than anything. But as soon as Carla accepted, I started to have her voice in my mind. So as soon as I started to write, I heard her singing at the moment I was writing. This forced me to search for the reason inside, because I realized that I wanted her to understand what I was saying, to give all the expression that I wanted. So this is one of the many reasons I started to write things with meanings, because I wanted her to be driven by these meanings.” Composed in the wake of Covid and as Fascism, Wars and Climate crises globally rise, Rejoice! offers a healing response for surviving this New Dark Age. Yang reveals music's power to purge darkness from our souls. In Rejoice!, L'Epee reminds us to embrace whatever beauty and light the world retains, and to transform the darkness into art. Music and lyrics by Frédéric L'Epée