Based between Paris and Nantes, the French sextet Bravery in Battle are specific about the battle they’re fighting. Their ambitious new project The House We Live In – Penser le monde de demain is a multimedia stage show, a DVD, a book, and of course an album, on which their lush post-rock emo-scapes are overlain with the words of a global array of voices worthy of attentive ears – activists, scientists, and cultural icons, all with important perspectives on the Anthropocene disaster, and how we might hope to counter its impact. Among these is Montreal-born astrophysicist Hubert Reeves, who lays out hard truths in a charming singsong voice, seen here (subtitled for the non-francophone) in “Parmi des Millions”.
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