Roxane Métayer – Perlée De Sève
Roxane Métayer – Perlée De Sève

Roxane Métayer – Perlée De Sève

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Label: Marionette – Marionette21
Format: Vinyl, LP, Album, 180g
Country: UK
Released: Feb 2023
Genre: Electronic, Folk, World, & Country
Style: Experimental, Folk

In the midst of a wave of hybridizing ambient, drone, folklore and experimental electroacoustic music, Roxane Métayer has gained a cult following with only a couple of releases to date. Following her debut album (Éclipse Des Ocelles) for Morc with a split EP and a limited cassette for Wabi-Sabi, Roxane now turns to Marionette with her intimate narrative based multi-instrumental recordings, a match made in the heavens if you ask us. With her violin, woodwind, voice and various effect pedals, Métayer takes the listener on a newfound journey into the ancient, medieval, and primordial.

Perlée de sève is Métayer’s second full length, a sophomore to the critically acclaimed Éclipse Des Ocelles, where Métayer continues to sonically realize the map of the fictional habitats that inhabit her mind. Coming from a background of studying narration and different animation mediums, it’s no surprise that her recordings evoke vivid imagery and carry a trace of the environment they were conceived in. The instruments morph as extensions of her body and ultimately become new organs, a means of communicating these bio-memetic stories and creating a dialogue between herself and her surroundings. Meandering melodies intertwine with accompanying drones, mantra-like fragments and a handfeel percussion lend themselves as living and breathing elements in Roxane’s beguiling and spellbinding anecdotes.

Roxane is an observer of the world, her projects conceived from elements that inform her reality, such as the organic imagery and sounds of nature, then transforming that into a strangely familiar parallel universe that would not exist otherwise. Whether it's active research or taking her instruments to the forest, Métayer opens up her imagination by taking this mental journey to discover locations, creatures, and time periods then channeling that into her own fairy tales. The album and track titles act as a portal into those worlds, like chapters in a book where the protagonists are animalia, plantae, and fungi. As Métayer wrote in an interview: Stories are a privileged way to create an awareness of a specific subject... (MINT / NEW)

Tracklist
A1 Limace Pâlissante
A2 Oeil Noir, Crin Jaune
A3 Galets Galactiques
A4 Miroir Mouvant
A5 Ramure De Vieil Arbre
A6 Esprit Escargot
B1 D'humeur Droïne
B2 Trois Signes Dans Le Sable
B3 Ode Au Feu
B4 Baume Paralume
B5 Nuage Sans Âge