“I believe that we make music to live this kind of moment of collective symbiosis, limpid, in which the music takes control. There’s no control, you don’t think about anything, you just play,” mused Adrien Leprêtre, the charismatic frontman of the French ensemble Samba de la Muerte.
This thought also underscores the band’s latest composition, ‘Ornament‘, a raw, atmospheric indie-electronic jewel. Pulled from the forthcoming eleven tracks album, aptly titled ‘Ornament’, due to catch the public’s attention this September, the track is an embodiment of the group’s musical voyage since its formation in 2012 in Caen.
“It is surely the most beautiful memory of the recording of this album and it is partly for this reason that the title gives its name to this one.” Adrien continued. “A magical moment. One morning, Nils [Nils Peschanski – keyboardist] turned on the philicorda organ and played these five notes as if to warm up, then he stopped. We all looked at each other as if dazzled by the beauty of the melody, immersed by the sound that floated and enveloped the studio. Time suddenly stopped. I asked him to start again and then Phil [Philippe Boudot – drummer] started on the drums, me behind a microphone and on the bass synth. That’s how the song was born, it just came together.”
photography by Sylvain La Rosa
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