Cheval De Frise - Fresques sur les parois secrètes du crâne

Cmptr Stdnts

£40.48

Format: LP
Catalogue No.: CS008
Barcode: 3700604750093
Release Date: 29 Mar 2024
Genre: Instrumental Rock

01: Lucarne des combles - Cheval De Frise
02: Bora Lustral - Cheval De Frise
03: Le puits - Cheval De Frise
04: Deux nappes ductiles - Cheval De Frise
05: Songe de perte de dents - Cheval De Frise
06: Fresques sur les parois secrètes du crâne - Cheval De Frise
07: L'agonie dans le jardin - Cheval De Frise
08: Phosphorescence de l'arbre mort - Cheval De Frise
09: IX - Cheval De Frise
10: Chiendent - Cheval De Frise

Fresques sur les parois secrètes du crâne is the second album by french duo Cheval de frise, one of the most paradoxical bands rock has ever produced. This striking, enigmatic, baroque masterpiece, was recorded at Black Box studio in 2002, and released in CD format on RuminanCe (Paris), in 2003. The album is now being reissued by New York label Computer Students™, and pressed to vinyl and cassette tape for the first time, with the original track list remastered by Carl Saﬀ. Evoking the cubist digressions of expert jazz, as well as the paroxysms of ﬂamenco with a nylon guitar ﬂexing its muscles on the anvils of the darkest metal, Cheval de Frise creates a frightened rock'n'roll, highly aesthetic yet half ugly, with a transfigured ugliness. Transfigured by what? The question remains unanswered. As does almost every other question that repeated listening to Fresques sur les parois secrètes du crâne raises

“Cheval De Frise managed to establish a unique, enigmatic place in the instrumental pantheon”
Fecking Bahamas — Fecking Bahamas

“Completely unlikely instrumental duo from Bordeaux, France: nylon-string guitar and drums. The tunes on "Fresques sur les Parois Secrètes du Crâne" are unresolved riffs interrupted with dive-bombing flamenco runs, and though they sound at first like free improvisation, they're most definitely composed.”
Ben Ratliff (2003) — The New York Times