Marietta Prazepam St.

In 20 or 30 years, we'll talk about Guillaume Marietta the same way we talk about Arthur Russell or Robert Johnson today - people ignored by their contemporaries and rediscovered later in prestigious anthologies or picaresque documentaries. Future being rather incertain these days, it would maybe be better if you didn't lose any time and enjoy Marietta right away.Sure, it won't be easy to map Marietta's journey - one of the key players of the GrandeTriple Alliance De l'Est, an anarchic scene which exploded between Metz and Strasbourg in the early 2000s, fronting bands such as A.H. Kraken, Plastobe'ton and The Feeling Of Love. In 2015 he released his first solo album, Basement Dreams Are The Bedroom Cream, an amazing collection of 4-track twisted lullabies who got him comparisons with Syd Barrett and John Frusciante. Then comes his second LP and suddenly you lose the track - footprints have been covered - no more of that sweet demo sounding folky weirdness : La Passage`re is recorded in Los Angeles with Chris Cohen and it's a lush and mesmerizing record, like Berlin with windows wide open or a sun-drenched The Idiot. A record that gives Marietta's music new layers of depth and complexity - even if he loses part of his audience in the process. Following this would be tough - and hazardousNo studio sessions in LA, no 4-track demos, Prazepam St. has been recorded with cracked computer music software. Richer and fuller than the two previous records, this new LP is also, paradoxically, unbashed and easier to grasp. "I wanted to have fun," says Marietta. Build a dark and bright world with my little hands and raw material, like David Lynch when he did Eraserhead "- one of the main keys to the album. It is also, more involuntarily a synthesis - there's the raw side of the first album, that more flamboyant and ambitious of the second, but also small pieces of AH Kraken, Feeling Of Love and even Funk Police. Marietta went back to some of his teenage years fovorite records - Sonic Youth, Beck, Nirvana, th...