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Violence Gratuite - Baleine à Boss (2024) [Hi-Res]

Violence Gratuite - Baleine à Boss (2024) [Hi-Res]

BAND/ARTIST: Violence Gratuite

  • Title: Baleine à Boss
  • Year Of Release: 2024
  • Label: Hakuna Kulala
  • Genre: Alternative, Electronic, French pop
  • Quality: MP3 320 kbps; 16-bit/44.1kHz FLAC; 24-bit/44.1kHz FLAC
  • Total Time: 36 min
  • Total Size: 125; 266; 457 MB
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A multidisciplinary artist and curator, Violaine Morgan Le Fur (aka Violence Gratuite) has spent the last few years sharpening her creative perspective, developing documentaries, producing exhibitions, and directing music videos and short films. 'Baleine à Boss' isn't just her debut album, but her first venture into music production; Le Fur had only begun to experiment with music software a few weeks before dubbing the record, a fact that makes this unique set only more bewildering. Singing and vocalizing candidly and producing each track alone, she sounds profoundly polished, invoking a beguiling haze of chanson, rap, no wave and experimental electronics that hovers around the margins of pop and the avant-garde.

Le Fur grew up in Paris's sprawling suburbs, and was provided with a diverse coterie of influences by her Breton mother and Cameroonian father. She's channeled her ancestry into her work before, splicing material from her mother's film archives with her own footage recorded in Bamiléké land to develop the autobiographical documentary 'À L'ouest' back in 2017. As Violence Gratuite, Le Fur thinks more cryptically, considering the vast forests of western Cameroon, lands ravaged by generations of bloodthirsty men and looping pulsing techno rhythms with fractured trap and the ghosts of French pop.

Her voice stands out proudly on opener 'Iséo', layered into a charming mantra over a brittle, grime-y beat assembled from stuttering samples and 8-bit blips. Acrobatic yet somehow casual, Le Fur splits her delivery, singing in French over undulating chants and spectral coos. And she switches up the flow on 'Olive', rapping in an icy cool deadpan while spiky synths bubble around jerky, Neptunes-like stabs. Then, on the nocturnal 'Smooth Operation', Le Fur guides us towards a moonlit ritual, crying sweetly into the darkness as hand drums and dreamy plucks chatter in the background.

On the title track, Le Fur strips the rhythm down to a moody, skeletal rumble, using rubbery drums and trapped chorals to mire herself in negative space. Speaking in a low rasp, she brings to mind Tricky's eeriest early material, or the wonkiest output of French no wave hybridist Lizzy Mercier Descloux. But the record switches gears relentlessly, lurching towards the Caribbean on 'Ragga Nieztches' and into spannered dembow on the hypnotic closing track 'Bad à Bras le Corps'. 'Baleine à Boss' is an unpredictable, labyrinthine suite that refuses to stay static, a variety show that's as comfortable in the club as it is at a fest noz.

Tracklist:
1.01 - Violence Gratuite - Iséo (2:57)
1.02 - Violence Gratuite - Olive (3:02)
1.03 - Violence Gratuite - L'hiver avec toi (3:05)
1.04 - Violence Gratuite - Smooth Operation (2:59)
1.05 - Violence Gratuite - Baleine à Boss (3:39)
1.06 - Violence Gratuite - Les Prisons de Nantes (4:04)
1.07 - Violence Gratuite - Une Ouf (3:48)
1.08 - Violence Gratuite - Ragga Nieztches (3:52)
1.09 - Violence Gratuite - Cristal (3:03)
1.10 - Violence Gratuite - Loup (3:02)
1.11 - Violence Gratuite - Bad à Bras le Corps (3:23)




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