Rong Weicknes Fievel Is Glauque

• 1 Hover 03:59
• 2 As Above So Below 03:46
• 3 Would You Rather? 00:41
• 4 Love Weapon 04:55
• 5 Rong Weicknes 03:16
• 6 Toute Suite 03:23
• 7 It's So Easy 02:09
• 8 I'm Scanning Things I Can't See 02:39
• 9 Kayfabe 04:54
• 10 My Oubliette 02:11
• 11 Dark Dancing 02:04
• 12 Great Blues 02:39
• 13 Transparent 03:13
• 14 Eternal Irises 02:12
• 15 Haut Contre Bas 03:39
• Total Runtime 45:40

Info for Rong Weicknes

Fievel Is Glauque's debut album for Fat Possum is the record the band always wanted to make but were unable until now. Beautifully recorded, 26 musicians all giving virtuosic performances. This is a stunner.

Already critically adorned, Rong Weicknes, is FIG’s greatest achievement yet. An album where the hypnotic rhythms of Stereolab meet the sophisticated jazz-rock of Steely Dan. Ethereal vocals float over lush, intricate arrangements that blend electronic textures with jazz grooves. A landscape of nostalgia and innovation, where every note is meticulously crafted to create a captivating sonic tapestry. This album embodies a perfect fusion of avant-pop sensibilities & timeless musical craftsmanship

Ma Clément, vocals
Thom Gill, electric guitar
Logan Kane, electric bass, upright bass
Zach Phillips, editing, Hohner Clavinet E7, Yamaha C7 grand piano, Octave-Plateau Voyetra-8, ARP String Ensemble
Daniel Rossi, percussion
André Sacalxot, alto saxophone, flute
Gaspard Sicx, drums
Chris Weisman, Reuben Cox rubber-bridge guitar, Danelectro sitar guitar, strat and Yamaha C7 grand piano on "Kayfabe"

Fievel Is Glauque
The Brooklyn/Brussels band Fievel is Glauque composed of American bandleading keyboardist Zach Phillips, French singer Ma Clément and a rotating cast of musicians spread out across the globe.

Fievel Is Glauque’s rising popularity has been as organic as it has been accidental. Phillips (a DIY polymath previously known for his OSR Tapes label and approximately fifty other albums under various names) and Clément met in Brussels, Belgium, where a mutual friend connected them in a bid to convince Zach to make an album during his stay there. While on route to meet, Zach hit his head on a street pole and was in need of care. As a sign of fate, Ma was also a trained nurse and was able to help clear him of any severe consequences of concussion. After a short practice the following day, the two fell into working together and gradually found themselves in a years-long musical partnership.

Lyrically switching between English and Ma’s native tongue of French, the words are created in an unusual process involving psychoanalytic dialectic, automatic writing, and interlinguistic translation of apparent gibberish, while musically the band’s songs dart between passages of pure mainline pop melody, microtonal flourishes and addictive non-sequiteur sonics.

The band released a Bandcamp compilation album of live mono cassette recordings titled “God’s Trashmen Sent To Right The Mess on New Years Day 2021”, with their debut full-length “Flaming Swords” the first fruits of Phillips and Clément working together as a composing duo, released in November 2022 (on Thanksgiving holiday) in the wake of an extensive US tour with Stereolab.

Newly-signed to Fat Possum with a double single release of ‘I​’​m Scanning Things I Can​’​t See / Dark Dancing’, the band’s first album on the label will land in 2024.

‘Avant-garde-jazz pop duo Fievel Is Glauque is one of the most singular and inspiring new bands in the world’ – Stereogum

‘It is heady but not stuffy, precise but not rigid, dense but not cluttered.’ – Pitchfork about “Flaming Swords”

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