"Paysage"
since 29th December 2015 is available on the main digital
distributors (Amazon, Itunes, Deezer).
"Paysage" is the second single from the album "Memories from
'900".
The
release date for "Memories from '900" is 19th January 2016
Mondotunes
Press Release by Sean Mc Caulay: "The
musicians of vintage-toned, French contemporary pop known as the
W91 have released their second single, “Paysage.” The track is the
second teaser single to be released from their upcoming
full-length album, “Memories from '900.” Both nostalgic and
timeless, reaching out to people who lived through some of the
most evocative events of the twentieth century, “Paysage” from the
W91 is already climbing music charts worldwide. The W91 are a
European duo, songwriter/instrumentalist Massimo and lead
chanteuse Jacqueline. Massimo cites as music inspirations such
artists as De Andrè, Leonard Cohen, Dire Straits, J.S Bach, J. Du
Prè, and poets Charles Baudelaire and Walt Whitman.
Music aficionados will liken W91 songs
like “Paysage” to French pop of the 1960s by legends like Astrud
Gilberto, Francoise Hardy, and Serge Gainsbourg. These comparisons
are absolutely justified in terms of instrumentation, lyrical
poetry and an emphasis on striking, arresting vocals. Fans may
also hear similarities between the W91 and modern French groups
like Air, and Phoenix. Asked to describe the themes of “Paysage”
(“Landscape” in English)
Massimo discusses the larger picture of which “Paysage” is just a
part. “'Memories from '900' is a collection of 11 short stories,”
he writes of their upcoming W91 album. “These try to remember and
make a point about what happened in the last century: from World
War I through World War II – D-Day, the Holocaust – to the
memories of the last veterans still alive today, leaving to one of
the greatest poets of all time, Charles Baudelaire, the task of
carrying on our hope, both opening and closing the album.” This
closing is “Paysage.” The lyrics to “Paysage” are directly from
Baudelaire, whose poetry is often considered the best ever to come
from France.
“Paysage” was mastered by Simon Heyworth
and Andy Miles at Superaudiomastering.com (Goldfrapp, Simple
Minds, King Crimson, Mike Oldfield).The first W91 single, “The Sun
Still Shines,” has been steadily moving up the pop charts from an
initial position of 23,000 to 294 across all digital releases and
as high as 147 globally in the pop category alone.
“Paysage”
by the W91 is available online worldwide. Get in early, fans of
great music everywhere. Very early. Sean Mc Caulay
"Paysage"
is the song that closes the album "Memories from '900".
"Paysage" is a Charles Baudalaire's lyric, taken from "Tableaux
Parisiens", a section of "Les fleurs du mal". The
abum "Memories from '900" is a collection of 11 short stories,
which try to remember and make a point on what happened in the
last century: from World War I, through World war II - D-Day,
Holocaust - to the memories of the last veterans still alive
today, leaving to one of the greatest poets of all times -
Charles Baudelaire - the task to carry on the hope, opening and
closing the album. "Paysage" is about Paris: the poet looks from
his attic at the life of the city, with people who talk in their
street and carry on their jobs. The poet fears the winter and
long dark boring days of snow, and the storm knocking at his
window: so he grasps desperately to his music
stand , the poetry, the only thing able to save his soul. Poetry provides
warm atmosphere against the cold, as a metaphor for the pain of
life. We chose this lyric because it summarizes the meaning of
the album: "Memories from '900" describes stories of death and
loss, of people who couldn't live their life because of tragic
events like World War I ("Farewell for youth") , World War II
("The Defeat", "Omaha beach"), nazi prosecutions ("The sun
still shines", "The Ballad of the voiceless men"). But the
conclusion reached by "Memories" is that life after all triumphs
and goes on: "Emy" is the daughter of the soldier who dies in
the military campaign of Greece in World War II described in
"The Defeat" - and thinks that bombs are simply falling stars.
The pain and death seen through the eyes of children become hope
and life. So
the phrase of World War II American veterans of the D-Day "it's
up to you from now on" ("Memories from '900") becomes a smooth
baton hand off to young generations: the need to remember is
a kind of survival tool for our conscience, that helps keep us
saving democracy and the way it reaches liberty balancing with
differences. The totalitarianism
against which Sophie Scholl - a young member of "The White rose"
sentenced to death at the age of 22 because she distributed
leaflets in the University of Munich describing the hard
situation young German soldiers were facing on the Russian
front- does not want differences, does not want the freedom of
thought. But the power of words grows, "breathing like a child",
and survives, giving a sense to the single human sacrifice. The
album is the result of hard work, and we would like to thank
Simon Heyworth and Andy Miles who mastered the album at
Superaudiomastering, helping with their experience and
professionality to reach the sound we could only hope for at the
beginning of the work. We
would like also thank the team of "Mondotunes" for
supporting the job of independent artists like us, giving
a direction to artistic growth and development of the project.
We would
like to dedicate from the deep of our heart "Paysage" to all the
victims of terrorism.
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