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LOUISVILLE
A Silent Effort In The Night
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"A rock band inspired by trees and strange places ..."

From the first seconds, Felicia Atkinson's voice places A Silent Effort In The Night under the dual seal of confidence and storytelling, inviting to a trip that can not be said at the end, if it really only lasted thirty minutes. "The imaginary road trip of French people in the United States," says Olivier Cavaillé, whose music was the starting point of the project. A trip to "the ideal territory of the imagination," says Felicia Atkinson, whose novel "in progress" Louiseville brought the subject text of this album (except The Only Thing To Come Now Is The Sea, free adaptation of a poem by Sylvia Plath), "a secret appointment in a ideal place, a fictive place."

Throughout the record, the real and the fiction don't cease to be mixed together, as between words and music is forging a relationship that seems to result from mutual hypnosis. However we should not be mistaken on a musical universe that is far from limited to the litany of names enunciated on the inaugural song. It results on the contrary of influences, or confluences instead, as contrasted as the path of Olivier Cavaillé, cellist of classical formation, who came to rock by collaborating with various musicians from Toulouse (Sylvain Chauveau, My Favorite Dentist Is dead ...) and now involved in the band That Summer. "Electroacoustic / melodramatic popular song / shoegaze" As such, the title of the Myspace page of the band, to be large, is paradoxically more enlightening on the ambitions of the band.

Of course, Louisville's music evokes by moments the ones of David Grubbs, Smog, or Rachel's. But it takes us too, and sometimes within the same song, from a noisy rock (The Only Thing To Come Now Is The Sea) to atmospheric escapes worthy of Fennesz or Labradford: A Silent Effort or Forest (for Maria Kotalska) composed of field recordings and other strange, acoustic or electric sounds (the only electronic intervention being the treatments added to the mix by the musician Pierre-Yves Macé). A Silent Effort In The Night is indeed a journey, a succession of landscapes, notably in direction of a folk music tinged with a certain idea of Americana (the second part of LouisEville or the ballad Johnny and June, all two sung by Sylvain Chauveau).

Like any journey, A Silent Effort In The Night is a sensory experience. In this case, this one is only the reflection of the courses of its authors. En Attendant L'Aube, Olivier Cavaillé debut album, came with a book composed of his own photos. As for Felicia Atkinson, she's not limited to music more than writing (which she also associates in the project Roman Anglais, with Sylvain Chauveau), but she includes all his practices inside a "multimedia" process both inspired by the wabi-sabi (Japanese philosophy of this unfinished) and the lo-fi (this sonorous "arte povera" that is also a playground with the symbols of the rock culture). An approach which also see her gets onto dance and performance - along with choreographer Boris Charmatz or dancer Elise Ladoue (with the duo Strechandrelax) - as well as the drawing (from Paris or Brooklyn galleries to the cover of his solo album La La La, published in 2008 by the Japanese label Spekk). Another strong personality joined up with this original duo at the time of recording : Nikolu, multi-instrumentalist active in a variety of bands, from the more rock to the more conceptual, from the more cult to the more confidential (La Chatte, ii, Genau, That Summer ...) : his interpretations and arrangements have helped to give this record its final form. In tow on record by drummer Jean-Michel Pires (NLF 3, The Married Monk, Bed, Dominique A, etc..), the trio is increased on stage by Pierre Fruchard (A Moi, Innocent X) on guitar and Etienne Bonhomme (Innocent X, Claire Diterzi, Mansfield.TYA, That Summer ...) on drums.

Conbination of musicians at once accomplished and cultured, but who have especially the good taste to cultivate their instincts in the first place : like any trip, A Silent Effort In The Night is above all a collective adventure, and an art of the meeting.

David Sanson

The first 500 copies of LOUISVILLE A Silent Effort In The Night are numeroted from 1 to 500 on 500.

Digisleeve in 400g matt coated paper | Packaging made by Kamarade.

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press

"A Silent Effort In The Night is a small masterpiece that reminds our memories of other masterpieces oldest ..."
Popnews

"Louisville connects us to a world highly poetic in the heart of the rock'n'rollmythology. That may be here that the ideas and sounds come in an electric melting. It may be from there that are coming ballads, beautiful and final, like Johnny and June, beautifully sung by Sylvain Chauveau, a guest at the end of the album."
Mouvement

"[...] The kind of record that we look forward to when we heard Felicia Atkinson whispers in his ear all year."
La Blogothèque

"A record as refreshing as arty, cutting sharply with everything from France."
Foutraque / Concertandco

"An out of the ordinary and exciting band "
La Magic Box

"Captivating."
A Découvrir Absolument

"CD of the week"
Octopus

"Born from the fusion of creative and sensitive artists, A Silent Night In The effort stands out as a singular work. Top 4"
Autres Directions

"A silent night in the effort, label's first release and first effort by LOUISVILLE is simply amazing. 6 / 6"
Scar [e] Culture

"a great discovery, and the record of the week!"
Radio Campus Rennes

"One of the finest records of those early months of 2009"
Primitive Radio

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