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Honesty and the environmental cause
HONESTY presents its video for "Silent Ones", featuring Sam Renescant, taken from the album "Wargame As DNA". The band is committed to the environmental cause and denounces the evils of industrial companies. Imbued with meaning and reflection, HONESTY pays homage to the living that expresses itself in silence, the one we don't hear, the one that suffers from human activity, the animals and plants that are man's victims.
The concept of the clip is twofold. A significant part of the filming takes place in natural settings, to emphasize the beauty of the Earth. On the other hand, the verses performed by Sam Renescant take place in an urban context, revealing the achievements of human civilization. The track aspires to directness and simplicity, with a punchy dynamic, while incorporating references to 1990s hip-hop culture.
"Silent Ones" was designed to be raw, incisive and minimalist, reflecting reality. The aim is to communicate direct authenticity and carry the band's lyrics. HONESTY pushes artistic boundaries to stimulate awareness and call for collective action in favor of ecology. The band encourages awareness of the consequences of our actions on the environment and on the living beings who suffer in silence.
Wargame As DNA produced by Honesty, on bandcamp or Rucktion Records. Album recorded by Jacob Bredahl at Studio Dead Rat. Promotion by Juste Une Trace
Brew Ten by Gary Brunton on video
« In the 1970’s my dad saw the great American saxophonist Pepper Adams in concert in our home town Burnley. His main memory was the amount of pints that Pepper drank of the reputed « worst » local beer « Brew Ten » The soundtrack to my childhood was my dad practicing his baritone saxophone and so I have deep affinity with this instrument and particulary Pepper Adams to whom i dedicate this tune. » - Gary Brunton
Brew Ten extract from the album TRÊN DYDD.
Gary Brunton - Double Bass
François Jeanneau - Soprano Saxophone
Andrea Michelutti - Drums
Emil Spanyi - Piano
Brew Ten
Music by Gary Brunton
Published by Éditions Amoc
Video by Lucas Ranoux
Produced by Bojan Z and Gary Brunton for Juste Une Trace
Bardenas by Ni!L
The stoner rock duo Ni!L plunges us into the vastness of a desert in northern Spain with BARDENAS, the first single available from the album Samsara. (Released on September 15, 2023).
Dark riffs, powerful drums, French lyrics, big rock inspired by the grunge and stoner of American bands like Soundgarden or Queen Of The Stone Age: these are the ingredients of Ni!L.
Filmed with a drone in the Monegros desert stretching over the provinces of Zaragoza and Huesca in northern Spain, the BARDENAS video offers breathtaking landscapes and puts into perspective the human loneliness in the wild and inhospitable vastness of an arid region.
The title BARDENAS is, according to Ni!L, "the symbol of the different crossings in our personal desert, the different stages of our evolution, of our quest. But also, the very symbolism of the desert that we must all face in uncertain times: may it be in the disappearance of a humanity, of contact, in this drought that waits to be irrigated, if only by tears, or this emptiness, the deprivation of the essence of being and existing."
"What is beautiful in the desert is that it hides a source somewhere". Antoine de Saint-Exupéry.
Ni!L invites us to find this hidden source in ourselves, to draw from our inner resources to overcome the difficulties of life and even in the most difficult moments, there is always hope and beauty to be found.
BARDENAS, the first single of the album SAMSARA to be released on September 15, 2023, an album where energies and dualities coexist: a very rock music, grunge but with a spiritual and meditative dimension that simply encourages the listener to let go.
Film directed by Guillaume Brunet
Editing : Ni!L
Chief operator, colorimetry, calibration : Guillaume Brunet
Technical team : Delphine Rigot, Jean-Michel Gaudemer
Songs for Louisa on video
With "Songs for Louisa", the composer and bassist Laurent Bonnot presents an original repertoire. He is accompanied by saxophonists Christophe Monniot and Ricardo Izquierdo, and drummer Eric Échampard. It’s OuLiPo Quartet!
OuLiPo Quartet’s main goal is to let go of the listener. Whether he is a seasoned musician, a neophyte or a music lover, no one can relate to metrics or try to analyze. You just have to rock and travel.
All titles are put in images by Lucas Ranoux and are available on Youtube.
Energy Master Loc, a Tai-Chi title
"Energy Master Loc" opens the album TRÊN DYDD and pays tribute to Gary Brunton's Tai-Chi teacher, Tan Loc Nguyen, whose art and practice helped Brunton improve his physical and mental approach to the double bass.
This is the first title for the new release !!! Release date : may 19th 2023.
Gary Brunton - Double Bass
François Jeanneau - Soprano Saxophone
Andrea Michelutti - Drums
Emil Spanyi - Piano
Energy Master Loc
Music by Gary Brunton
Published by Éditions Amoc
Video by Lucas Ranoux
Produced by Bojan Z and Gary Brunton for Juste Une Trace