The title of the album is likely to attract the grey padawans who are followers of Robert Fripp, the Yoda of edgy prog. Let them be mistaken \u2013 and take the opportunity to lend an ear to the record \u2013 because it\u2019s about a maple tree of Crimson King variety, like the one on the cover. Ga\u00ebl Desbois, alias Chasseur, thus evokes his father, whose ashes are buried at the foot of a similar tree. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Desbois has been a composer, musician, and actor in various theatre and dance companies, drummer with Laetitia Sh\u00e9riff, Miossec, Dominic Sonic, and Santa Cruz, and co-founder of the duets Mobiil, Del Cielo, and Tchewsky & Wood. In 2016, he launched the Chasseur project, which finds its etymological origin in Hunter, the first name of the young protagonist of the film Paris, Texas<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The harsh lyricism of Wenders\u2019 masterpiece undoubtedly influenced the aesthetic of Chasseur. In songs such as \u201cAilleurs\u201d, \u201cJouer avec le vent\u201d, \u201cAu lointain\u201d, \u201cLes ruisseaux\u201d and \u201cThe End\u201d, Desbois describes the vertigo caused by the disappearance of an irreplaceable person, then questions the dichotomy or indivisibility of existence and death. His deep tone and warm timbre remind us of those of Bertrand Belin. He wrote the lyrics of \u201cDu bleu\u201d and \u201cComme il vient\u201d alone. The other songs are the fruit of his collaboration with the Rennes writer Nathalie Burel, who provided Chasseur with the four texts of the EP Dans la ville<\/em>, released in 2017.<\/p>\n\n\n\n To generate the profusion of rhythms and melodies contained in Crimson King<\/em>, Desbois used the appropriate machines. These necessarily include a Fairlight CMI synth, or its ersatz, since the overall sound is rooted in the fertile decades of Jean-Michel Jarre (Zoolook<\/em> period), Giorgio Moroder, and Suicide. Crimson King<\/em> remains nonetheless a cutting-edge work, making Ga\u00ebl Desbois as fascinating a creator as his compatriot Arman M\u00e9li\u00e8s.<\/p>\n\n\n\n