Mes épaules seront rivi​è​res

by ARBRE

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Les virages 07:12
You were part of the crowd Only one voice, screaming All watching the field And now you're driving home all alone In your big car
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Avant demain 06:24
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Snow is falling below the ocean And the whale might fly I’ll be the stranger in a place I’ve known But the clock won’t start But the clock won’t start Climbing trees to feel my inner caves Pull the stone of my past over my backyard sandbox And the whale might fly And the whale might fly Circular breath of the city I take a walk in the unknown woods Chasing the glade in my heart But the clock won’t stop But the clock won’t stop I’ll be the stranger in a place I’ve known I’ll be the stranger at home The stranger I own
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256mb 07:42
And what if the curtain would rise No hurry Only lightness and bright eyes No hurry My shoulder would be rivers An arrow is landing in my future No daze to deflect No blizzard to divert No daze no daze Ice is melting through my chest Leaves the warmth I’m building tree houses Not looking for escape but the new truth of a fireplace No daze to deflect No blizzard to divert An arrow is landing in my future
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"I’ll be the stranger in a place I’ve known" – ARBRE sound different. Returning to their characteristically expansive sonic realm, they fill it with raw yet profound resonances and sincere yet abstract poetry.
In "Mes épaules seront rivières" (translated as "My Shoulders will be Rivers"), their music walks on the concrete pavements of a metropolis. This album is not a refuge; it is a partially transparent mirror. It does not give advice; it observes and interprets, sometimes full of sorrow, sometimes with a damn broad smile and a generous dose of joyful defiance.
And just like that, the discarded ice-cream wrapper on the sidewalk begins to sparkle, while the posters on the wall are bathed in a neon colour palette. There, from the basement window, you can smell last night’s Techno. The streetlamp's cone becomes a swirl, revealing the setting sun at the end of the road, and the world expands. This album carries more weight, a sense of sobriety. But it is open and vulnerable, as if ARBRE want to say: “My shoulders will be rivers; I belong to the world, and the world belongs to me. We are everything that we are.”

"Mes épaules seront rivières" is an introspective piece that, above all, celebrates the beauty of self-acceptance.

credits

released October 27, 2023

Paul Butscher - Flugelhorn, Electronics, Vocals, Percussions
Mélusine Chappuis - Rhodes, Synthesizer, Electronics
Xavier Almeida - Drums, Piano

All songs composed & arranged by ARBRE
Lyrics by Paul Butscher

Production and Music Direction by Johannes Kellig
Recording, mixing and mastering at BauerStudios, Ludwisburg.
April-mai 2023

Artwork and graphism by Nic Canepa
Text by Sonia Loenne
Band picture by Lionel Nemeth

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ARBRE Bern, Switzerland

The Bernese collective ARBRE are best known for their expansive sonic realms somewhere between jazz and alternative music. Mélusine Chappuis (keys, synth), Paul Butscher (fglh, vox) and Xavier Almeida (dr, p) present a sound that is bigger than themselves, an absolute love for detail, for long arcs and for each other. ... more

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