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Second LP from French electronic talent Thylacine
Regardless of whether or not the thylacine, a species of marsupial with a tiger-striped back, still lives
in Tasmania or not, it is in Argentina that this young star of the French electro scene decided to
record his second album. To create a follow up to Transsiberian, his brilliant first album that he
recorded in 2015 aboard the train that links Moscow to Vladivostok, William Rezé, aka Thylacine,
bought a 1972 trailer, one of the famous all-aluminum Airstreams.
After painstakingly transforming the trailer into a recording studio, he put his beautiful American on
a freighter across the Atlantic and got it back a month later in Buenos Aires.
He was drawn to South America by the pull of the unknown, the absolute absence of reference. He
wanted to immerse himself in desert and lunar landscapes, explore multicolored canyons, sand
dunes, giant cacti forests, snow-capped peaks... and write, alone, in the intimacy of his nomadic
studio.
After making stops in the middle of nowhere, he returned with ten tracks that marvelously combine
Moderat's aerial melodies, the solar touch of Nicola Cruz, and the techno power of Paul Kalkbrenner.
His electronica is often laden with saxophone—his instrument of choice, which he started playing at
the age of 6 at a conservatory—and features vocals from Julia Minkin (of Kid Francescoli), Clara
Trucco (a member of the trio Femina), and Juana Molina, "considered the Argentinian Björk," says
Thylacine.
Mission accomplished: the young Angevin's vaporous layers are tinged with charango, a local
instrument, and melodies inspired by traditional Argentinian songs. "I wanted to go back to a music
with a more acoustic sound."
And the tracks follow one another, telling the story of his extraordinary odyssey: the hypnotizing “The
Road” expresses the miles of road traveled; the captivating tale of “Santa Barbara” evokes the close
ties between inhabitants of a tiny village in the Andes; and the rhythm of “4500 m,” cut by the flow of
the American rapper J. Medeiros, recalls the high desert where Thylacine once had to sleep, forced to
stop for the night by storms of a rare intensity.
Three months and ten thousand kilometers later, this "concept album" is ready; it's called Roads vol.
1, and it’s the first installment of a collection that the 26-year-old Thylacine expects to add to as he
continues his travels. His itinerant studio, ingeniously equipped with solar panels, will take him,
hopefully, very far.
Tracklist
1. Murga
2. Purmamarca
3. El Alba
4. The Road
5. Volver
6. 4500m
7. Condor
8. Sal y Tierra
9. Santa Barbara
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