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Waiting [For Joy], a great first album for Harmonic Permanent Drive

A FLIGHT PLAN FOR SPACECRAFT

Gary Brunton, on double bass and compositions, presents a dream team to perform ‘SPACECRAFT’, an intergenerational and multicultural jazz creation. With Simon Goubert on drums, saxophonists Emma Rawicz and Léa Ciechelski, and guitarist Benjamin Garson. The quintet takes us on an expedition into space, offering a modern sound, virtuosity, listening, and delicacy in service of the composer.

As well as evoking speed and adventure, SPACECRAFT represents the universe imagined by Gary Brunton. The repertoire features charismatic melodies and at times employs silence, exploring the unknown through inspired improvisations. SPACECRAFT also stands for Craft, meaning highly specialized work and instrumental mastery, acquired through constant dedication, passion and daily practice. SPACECRAFT: 11 original compositions for a space journey with the sound of Jazz.
 
The Spacecraft album, which lasts over an hour, is divided into two. An "outward" flight entitled "Outward Bound" and a "return" flight entitled "Return to Earth". The CD edition, released on Friday 13 June 2025, incorporates the complete journey.
For streaming, Outward Bound will be released on 13 june 2025 and Return to Earth has been announced for 12 September 2025. Several singles will be available from May as the journey progresses.
 
Single release "Snecklifter" on May 2, 2025
Single release "So Chavvy" on May 16, 2025
Single release "Take the Rocket" on May 30, 2025
Release of SPACECRAFT - CD Album Edition - (11 tracks) on June 13, 2025
Digital release of the EP "Outward Bound" (6 tracks) on June 13, 2025
Digital release of the EP "Return to Earth" (5 tracks) on September 12, 2025

Graveyard by Harmonic Permanent Drive

With Graveyard, Harmonic Permanent Drive sets the tone: an intense first single where rage, tension, and disorientation collide.

A surge of tension and urgency. With Graveyard, Harmonic Permanent Drive lays the groundwork for a noise rock that is written in fury and collapse. This first excerpt from the album Waiting [for Joy], to be released on April 25th, propels the listener into an atmosphere where rage clashes with nothingness, where each sound resonates like a call to survive in a world in ruins. Abrasive guitars, saturated synth layers, and an implacable rhythm section outline the contours of uncontrollable chaos. Graveyard offers a catchy melody with an infectious chorus that imprints itself on the mind and stays in your head all day. But amidst the ashes, something persists. A beat. A tension that refuses to die out.

Here, violence and loss take center stage. Dissonant guitars dig into the void, while pulsing rhythms and industrial textures create a sense of unease.

'It's a track that explores inner desolation and the loss of bearings, driven by an energy reminiscent of Queens of the Stone Age, opening the album, Graveyard hits hard with an explosive start,' says Éric Martin.

A brief moment of respite occurs: the instruments resume their frantic race, where each note seems to accentuate the underlying chaos. 'Successive rises of synth into saturation on a frenzied rhythm, followed by a pause marked by a set of cinematic strings, before the guitar and bass resolve into the intoxication of speed and plunge the listener into a sonic whirlwind,' adds Éric Martin. The intensity of the composition finds a direct echo in the lyrics, notably through this key phrase: 'NOWHERE TO BE, NOWHERE TO LIVE.'

To accompany the release of the single, the group unveils a raw and intense music video, reflecting their stage approach, directed by Mariexxme. The dynamic editing and visual treatment reinforce the nervousness of the track. Everything is filmed on stage, a logical choice for these experienced musicians (We Insist! Treponem Pal…).

Between haunting echoes and pure devastation, Graveyard is an implacable descent into the existential void, where nothing seems stable, and where everything is on the verge of decomposition.

This is just the beginning. The storm is coming.

A Shrine in Your Home, the ballad

With this new title available for streaming on March 7, 2025, the trio Gary Brunton, Daniel Beaussier and Célestine De Williencourt unveils a little more the album LOOK NORTH (released on March 28, 2025).

A unique musical journey that evokes the wide-open spaces of Northern lands (Island, Scotland…) with a strong vocal presence, performing original works and inspired contemporary improvisations. Through a narrative and lyrical approach to jazz creation. This song is a tribute to pianist Michel Graillier: “He shared Chet Baker’s natural gift of ballad playing, musical beauty, good taste and effective use of space,” recalls Gary Brunton.

Gary Brunton, double bassist and tabla player, has forged a solid career for himself in France. An acclaimed composer and arranger, he has collaborated with such iconic figures as Sheila Jordan and Bojan Z.
Daniel Beaussier, master of the winds, explores a vast range of instruments. His English horn and clarinet playing enriches the deep harmonies of Coldstream.
Célestine De Williencourt, a passionate vocalist and flautist, breathes a singular, poetic energy into the mix, between vocal improvisation and timbral exploration.

A Shrine in Your Home is available now on all platforms, and soon on the LOOK NORTH album.

Produced by Jazz En Face
Recorded by Yohan Progler at Studio Parc de Sceaux
Mixed and mastered by Manu Pekar
Photographs by Camille Huguenot
Graphic Design by Corinne Garino
Released by Juste Une Trace
With support : SCPP
Release date : 28-03-2025

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