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Arcanes

by Ghost Rhythms

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  • Listening Party

     
    Hello folks ! At last, you'll be able to hear the full Arcanes album : 22 tracks for the 22 Major Arcana. A cool project we've been able to accomplish thanks to our kind subscribers, who give us money every month ! As the young french say : cœur sur vous !
    Join us to listen and to chat with us about this and that. We'll be happy to connect :)
    Regards from Paris !

     

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    Pre-order of Arcanes. You get 22 tracks now (streaming via the free Bandcamp app and also available as a high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more), plus the complete album the moment it’s released.
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    releases April 5, 2024

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  • Here are 22 cards drawn by the exquisite Louise Laveuve, and that are the inspiration for the 22 tracks of the Arcanes. When you buy the tarot deck, you receive a code to stream and download the 22 tracks of Arcanes !
    shipping out on or around April 1, 2024
    edition of 50 

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    Includes unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality downloads of Arcanes, Ghost Rhythms live at L'Ermitage, Imaginary Mountains, Mind the goat, Madeleine, Sept Cercles, and Ghost Rhythms (1st album, radio-friendly version). , and , .

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about

Arcanes is an album illustrating the 22 arcana of the tarot deck, that will be available in spring 2024.
Each arcana is illustrated by Louise Laveuve, a french artist with a lovely talent.

Between 2006 and up until 2023, Xavier Gélard, Ghost Rhythms' drummer and co-composer, collected home-made bits of tunes and melodies of his own, and thesaurized ideas and projects his friends Camille Petit (GR's key man) and Gregory Kosovski (GR's bassist) left unfinished.

In 2021, he decided this bits would fit a large project aiming at illustrating images he bought from Louise Laveuve, a depiction of the 22 Arcana of the tarot.

He soon envisaged that project as a way to broaden the Ghost Rhythms' sound, keeping the "big band polyrhythmic" side of the band (Arcane 11, Arcane 16), and the intricate research in pulse displacement and tempi equivalences (Arcane 9, Arcane 15, Arcane 18), but also diving into intimacy (Arcane 1), mystery (Arcane 10), and sound experimentation (Arcane 2), thus keeping an odd balance between the lo-fi and the larger-than-life, in a quest of mixing sounds of everyday life and the grandiose, as Arcane 5 shows : beginning with the sound of his guitar simply recorded by the computer mic, you can hear in the back his wife feeding his daughter, until a gong seems to move the scene into a larger, mystical place.

Home made (Arcane 8) but studio produced (Arcane 3), simple (Arcane 21) but also complex (Arcane 19), he wanted this all thing as a way to reconcile the opposites.

In the process, a lot of not so expected influences came to front, as can be heard in the Cocteau Twinesque guitar sound of Arcane 7, the Leonard Cohen "Songs of love and hate" ambiance of Arcane 10 and the afrobeat of Arcane 12.
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credits

releases April 5, 2024

Composed and arranged by Xavier Gélard except
Arcane 3, Arcane 11, Arcane 16, Arcane 17, Arcane 18 : composed and arranged by Xavier Gélard and Camille Petit
Arcane 4, Arcane 20 : composed by Gregory Kosovski and arranged by Xavier Gélard
Played by
Xavier Gélard (drums, guitars, bass, voices, keyboards, glockenspiel, melodica, editing)
Gregory Kosovski (bass on Arcane 2, Arcane 4, Arcane 6, Arcane 7, Arcane 8, Arcane 9, Arcane 11, Arcane 13, Arcane 15, Arcane 16, Arcane 17, Arcane 18, Arcane 20, Arcane 21)
Camille Petit (keyboards on Arcane 1, Arcane 3, Arcane 5, Arcane 7, Arcane 8, Arcane 9, Arcane 11, Arcane 13, Arcane 15, Arcane 16, Arcane 17, Arcane 18, Arcane 20)
Guillaume Aventurin (guitar on Arcane 11, Arcane 17, Arcane 20)
Alexis Collin (accordion on Arcane 7, Arcane 11, Arcane 16, Arcane 19)
Julien Bigorgne (flute on Arcane 1, Arcane 6, Arcane 11, Arcane 16, Arcane 18, Arcane 19 ; oud onArcane 6)
Sonia Bricout (voices on Arcane 7, Arcane 8, Arcane 12)
Morgan Lowenstein (congas on Arcane 11, Arcane 16, Arcane 19)
Maxime Thiébaut (voices, sax and electronic sax on Arcane 16 ; voices on Arcane 4)
Olivier Laisney (trumpet on Arcane 19, Arcane 21)
Pedro Kouyate (n'goni and voice on Arcane 12)
Laurent Skoczek (trombone on Arcane 19)
Antoine Villedieu (violins on Arcane 11, Arcane 19)
Lionel Fougère (second drums on Arcane 16)
Emmanuel Sicherman (alto sax on Arcane 17)
Mixed by Maxime Lefèvre (Claudia Sound)

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