photo by Sasha Vernaeve
Harvesters is Nicolas Michaux's debut single from his upcoming album "Armour Colere". His first release in four years, it is a sleepy day dream of a song moving on a tactile beat and Michaux's resonant vox. Curiously odd but beautiful words fall from his lips. He sings about scars, wounds, about someone's hair gleaning the sky, of carrying a child in a wheel barrow and an oak tree growing out of concrete. He sings, says all of these ideas, these crystal cosmic thoughts in truly poetic ways with a tender yet commanding voice. Amid bendy guitar notes and subtle musical downbeats as he sings, "you're the nicest dream I've ever had" the song feels like a daydream itself. I am smiling.
Michaux recorded and produced the track with his collaborator Morgan Vigilante on drums. Of the song he shares,
“‘Harvesters' is the first song I wrote after arriving on [the Danish island] Samsø, the island where I reside with my girlfriend and our daughter,” Michaux speaks of the track, noting that “It was two years ago, springtime was burgeoning and I could feel a great relief being able to put my suitcases down after a few years of traveling; I was tired but was hoping for recovery and was determined to live a simpler life.” *
Nicolas Michaux hails from Belgium and Harvesters is a tribute to his family.
"The song was a way to express love and gratitude to my family, a way to acknowledge the passing of time as well and to question the fate of a love story that has to go through a new phase. My propitiatory gift" *
“At the time, I was very interested in Ayurveda, the traditional Vedic biology, and its holistic views on life and the idea that we are all a unique proportion of the same five elements that constitute the whole universe. *
“The correspondence between macrocosm and microcosm must have played a part in the spiritual journey that lead me to write this song." *
-Robb Donker Curtius
*source - The Line of Best Fit
THE FACTS AS WE KNOW THEM - PRESS NOTES:
"The song was a way to express love and gratitude to my family, a way to acknowledge the passing of time as well and to question the fate of a love story that has to go through a new phase. My propitiatory gift"
“At the time, I was very interested in Ayurveda, the traditional Vedic biology, and its holistic views on life and the idea that we are all a unique proportion of the same five elements that constitute the whole universe.
“The correspondence between macrocosm and microcosm must have played a part in the spiritual journey that lead me to write this song."
No comments:
Post a Comment