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Abel's Journey to Revival

by B-Maltais & Konejo

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Si les récentes recherches génétiques et la Bible se rejoignent sur un point, c'est bien sur la question de notre fraternité : descendants de l'Ève mitochondriale, qui aurait vécu il y a environ 150 000 ans, nous sommes tous, sur cette planète, frères et soeurs d'ADN, liés par le sang. Ainsi, chaque guerre, chaque assassinat, chaque meurtre relève du fratricide, les Caïn de ce monde tuant et mutilant en instrumentalisant amour, science ou religion, souvent mus par cette même jalousie qui fit d'Abel la première victime d'un égocentrisme démesuré. "The voice of your brother’s blood cries out to Me from the ground"... De la même façon qu'il trace des ponts entre sampling et instrumentation acoustique, mélodies rédemptoires et collages sonores tourmentés, introspection ambient ("The Spilling Breaker of Eternity and Ever") et tension cinématographique ("A Quiet Moment of Abandon Away from Avidity and Turmoil"), mélancolie désabusée ("A One-Way Stroll") et sérénité retrouvée dans la communion des sentiments ("Our Ascension"), le premier album de B-Maltais et Konejo relie les points de ses références bibliques par le sang et les larmes de traumas universels aux échos personnels ("A Temporary Eclipse of the Mind"), et les lignes fuyantes d'une actualité qui pèse de plus en plus lourdement sur notre quotidien. Marqués par un vécu commun loin de ces démocraties que certains irresponsables aux scepticismes mal placés prétendent aujourd'hui comparer à des dictatures, le duo de retour en France depuis quelques années cristallise au fil du récit instrumental d'"Abel's Journey to Revival" une toute autre anxiété que celle des autruches de la pandémie : en ligne de mire, le regain d'instabilité des véritables régimes autoritaires ("Deluge"), leurs campagnes de désinformation ("Dealing with Liars"), leurs violations de la vie privée et de la liberté d'expression érigées en normalité sécuritaire ("Abused Privacy of a Born-Prisoner"), leur mépris du féminicide qui continue de porter le blâme sur ses victimes ("Selfie with Adam pointing at me"), leurs transgressions de l'éthique scientifique (cf. la pochette réalisée par B-Maltais, qui mêle collage, peinture et numérique) et les névroses de leurs leaders nés dans la violence et la frustration ("The Old Cunt Betrayed Me, I Wanna Kill Everybody !").

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If recent genetic research and the Bible come together on one point, it is on the subject of our fraternity : descendants of the Mitochondrial Eve, which would have lived about 150,000 years ago, we all are, on this planet, brothers and sisters of DNA, bound by blood. Thus, each war, every assassination, every murder is a fratricide, the Cains of this world killing and mutilating by instrumentalizing love, science or religion, often from the same egocentric jealousy that made Abel its first victim. "The voice of your brother’s blood cries out to Me from the ground"... In the same way it is building bridges between sample-based music and acoustic instrumentation, redemptional melodies and tormented sound collages, ambient introspection ("The Spilling Breaker of Eternity and Ever") and cinematographic tension ("A Quiet Moment of Abandon Away from Avidity and Turmoil"), disillusioned melancholy ("A One-Way Stroll") and serenity found again in the communion of feelings ("Our Ascension"), the first collaborative album from B-Maltais and Konejo connects the dots of its biblical references by the blood and tears of universal traumas with personal echoes ("A Temporary Eclipse of the Mind"), and the fleeting lines of current events that weigh more and more heavily on our daily lives. Influenced by a common living experience far from these democracies that some senseless pandemic-skeptics dare compare these days to dictatorships, the duo that has been back in France for a few years now, crystallize over the narrative course of "Abel's Journey to Revival" another form of anxiety : in the crosshairs, the renewed instability of real authoritarian regimes ("Deluge"), their campaigns of lies and propaganda ("Dealing with Liars"), their violations of privacy and freedom of speach posing as a new securitarian normality ("Abused Privacy of a Born-Prisoner"), their contempt for feminicide which goes on blaming its victims ("Selfie with Adam pointing at me"), their transgressions of scientific ethics (as shown by the cover from B-Maltais, mixing collage work, painting and digital art) and the neurotic behavior of their leaders born in violence and frustration ("The Old Cunt Betrayed Me, I Wanna Kill Everybody!").

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released November 30, 2021

Artwork (collage, painting and digital) by B-Maltais, layout by Konejo.

Mastered by our dear friend Anatoly 'Tokee' Grinberg (www.discogs.com/artist/3790715-Anatoly-Tokee-Grinberg).

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