Rone - Rone & Friends [LP]

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£20

Format: LP
Catalogue No.: IF160LP
Barcode: 3516628344619
Release Date: 12th April 2021
Genre: Experimental/Electronic

TRACKLISTING:
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A1. Sot-l'y-laisse (Odezenne)
A2. Waves of Devotion (Georgia)
A3. Et le jour commence (Jehnny Beth)
A4. A l’Errance (Dominique A)
A5. L’Orage (Laura)
A6. Un (Alain Damasio & Mood)
B1. Polichinelle (Flavien Berger)
B2. Breathe In (Yael Naim)
B3. Faro (Malibu)
B4. La Nuit Venue (Camélia Jordana)
B5. Closer (Casper Clausen & Melissa Laveaux)
B6. Twenty 20 (Roya Arab)

"Rone & Friends“ has the musical colour of Rone’s friendships, of his crushes for a few additional less expected guest voices, but also inevitably of his own personality. With a strange year 2020 where borders and concert venues have closed, Rone felt the need to come closer to his artist friends and to reshuffle his creations with their voices as the new beating heart. The new collaborative album includes voices by Georgia, Yael Naim, Casper Clausen (Efterklang), Flavien Berger, Jenny Beth, Dominique A and many others.

On the surface, Rone's latest album, 'Room With A View' seemed to mark his return to solitary, contemplative instrumental electronica productions akin to his debut album 'Spanish Breakfast'. In reality, the show of the same name, which took place over a week in the prestigious Théâtre du Chatelet in Paris, is the result of a permanent collaboration with fifteen dancers of the Ballet de Marseille and the avant-garde dance collective "La Horde", which fed into all the decisions made around the album campaign. The albums’ artwork is unequivocal in this regard.

The health crisis in March 2020 forced the closure of the theatre and paralysed the development of this unique show at the crossroads of disciplines, which, up until then, was met with both critical and commercial success. In the following social isolation, Rone felt the need to come closer to his artist friends and to reshuffle his creations with their voices as the new beating heart. The only good thing bound to this pandemic is that they too, deprived of touring and slowed down in the productions of their upcoming albums, found themselves available to infuse their vocal and textual energy into Rone's recent laidback productions.
This collection, entitled "Rone & Friends“, has the musical colour of Rone’s friendships, of his crushes for a few additional less expected guest voices, but also inevitably of his own personality. The collaborative album is based on an electronic backdrop of previously unreleased titles, alternative versions of "Room With A View" or his first feature film soundtrack "La Nuit Venue".

First of all, there's this title from his "buddy", the science-fiction author Alain Damasio, which Rone has had on his hard drive for a while: a slightly erotic pastiche to Serge Gainsbourg entitled "un". Rone unearthed a deep and pastoral version of "Human" where the voice of Efterklang singer Casper Clausen seems to take on the accents of Matt Berninger of The National.

The artist reactivated the aborted collaboration projects with his close circle and spontaneously collected a big handful of titles. To these first "Kind-hearted" reactions, came three female collaborations with the English singer and multi-instrumentalist Georgia, the Iranian Roya Arab (seminal voice of the "Londinium" of the group Archive) and a rising figure of the ambient scene, Malibu, with whom Rone had always hoped to work.
It is a kind of pressure cooker of spicy and very diverse musical personalities that gives a fresh and offbeat appeal to Rone's music. Dominique A's lyrical skills rubs shoulders with the surrealist and psychedelic poetry of Flavien Berger. The vitamin-packed pop of Georgia is followed by the ethereal contemplations of Yael Naim. Jenny Beth from Savages even turns her post-punk attitude into French desireless-ness. Nods to American rock merge with 90s trip-hop in a mix of genres that is bubbling, fun, but never disconcerting.

The visual identity of the project was created by the illustrator and cartoonist Coco (who works at Charlie Hebdo) and continues, in its own way, the work initiated by Michel Gondry on the imaginary city of Mirapolis. Rone likes to populate his imagination with talented and eccentric characters. This willingness to avoid the usual conventions and to bring together diversity will perhaps make "Rone & Friends" one of the most successful escapes from electronic production into modern pop music this year.

- A cast of French and international names across all the spectrum of the modern Pop music.
- A live concert including all the guest in the stage of the prestigious Chatelet Theatre in Paris and broadcasted on ARTE.TV worldwide in April.
- A successful debut Single featuring Domino Records Georgia supported by BBC6 in UK, programmed in Radio1, DRN, Flux and Fm4 in Germany and handpicked by specialist Pop and Electronic radio deejays all over the world.
- Debut single supported by Spotify (5x New Music Friday in Fr, UK, Mexico, Japan, Iceland) and Apple.
- A team of radio specialists in UK (Shake PR), in Germany (Sinnbus) and all media team in Mexico (D Music), Irascible (Switzerland)…back up by InFiné usual inhouse PR Team.
- Some French artists who have a solid fanbase worldwide like Yael Naim (Turkei, Mexico, Australia), Flavien Berger (Germany, Belgium). Odezenne (Belgium)
- Roya Arab is the seminal voice of trip hop classic album Londinium of Archive.
- Music partly based on “La Nuit Venue” OST produced by Rone nominated as best Film Music in the César award 2021 (ultimate celebration for French Film production).
- Visual identity by COCO, cartoonist for Charlie Hebdo and rare survivor of the Attack of 2015 in Paris.

OTHER ACTIVITY: https://www.rone-music.com/