Rupture
Hifiklub, Matt Cameron (Pearl Jam / Soundgarden) Daffodil and Reuben Lewis in collaboration with Electric Valley Records present: RUPTURE.
Entirely recorded in quarantine, Rupture features collaborations between French open trio Hifiklub + Pearl Jam/ Soundgarden’s drummer Matt Cameron, producer Daffodil and experimental jazz trumpet player Reuben Lewis.
The instrumental character of this project, made up of six distinct movements, is only shaken by rare vocal interventions supporting passages where the music becomes more intense. This real sound puzzle assembled by Daffodil reveals the darkness and modernity characteristic of his latest productions. His meticulous mixing work allows this 25-minute musical piece, thought of as a whole, to evolve in the sandstone of unexpected rhythmic and harmonic breaks during which the trumpet and electronic sounds constantly revive the machine.
“Creepy insectoid sound design and dark ambient atmospherics combine to create foreboding soundscapes that evolve into intense half-time grooves. Lewis’s solos elevate the material to more interesting territories, while Daffodil uses the remotely recorded elements to build a vivid listening experience that gleams with sinister detail.” – Leah Kardos, The Wire
“The perfect soundtrack to an 80s direct-to-video horror film. It’s a voyage that leads into darkness, but Rupture makes for an unsettling, fascinating trip.” – Prog Magazine
“This is spell-binding music – part electronica, part ambient, grounded in jazz improvisation and hypnotic psychedelia. Rupture is that record you name drop when you want to impress somebody with your sophisticated tastes.” – Scream Blast Repeat
“a trumpet lost in the Black Lodge of Twin Peaks during a waking dream” – ExitMusik
“Rupture ends in a swerve to the majesty that rumbles without breaking. The trip is loaded with sensations, ‘Cavale’ shakes us by submitting us to intense, ample implosions, the cut of which lets emerge a silence which, I would swear, is destined to make us fall again. It is necessary, we went up very high.” – Noisemag
“A fasciniting piece of music” – Ghost Wave Radio
“The production is opulent and makes the music whiz past like a quiet thick bumblebee who tasted the wrong powder. Try it if you dare.” – Zware Metalen
“It’s the wind on a quiet night and the silhouette of trees along the horizon and the noise of a nightclub through the walls. It exists in its own right but it excels in highlighting the contrast.” – Rock Out Stand Out
“The sheer collection of sounds and styles on this album is what made me fall in love with it. Each song brings in new elements, blending synthesiser with jazz trumpet and ethereal soundscapes with calming atmospheric vocal sections.” – Cave Dweller Music
“The very brevity of Rupture serves to heighten the music’s effects.” - Des Cowley, Rhythms Magazine
Pascal Abbatucci Julien – electronic drums
Anthony “Daffodil” Belguise – synthesizers, piano, programming, guitar
Matt Cameron – drums
Jean-Loup Faurat – guitar, effects
Régis Laugier – bass, vocals
Reuben Lewis – trumpet, pedals, synthesisers
Rupture includes an extract of a string arrangement by Jean-Michel Bossini performed by Trio Anpapié (Eléna Andreyev – cello, Alice Piérot – violin, Fanny Paccoud – alto)
Music composed by Pascal Abbatucci Julien, Daffodil, Jean-Loup Faurat and Régis Laugier
Arranged with Matt Cameron and Reuben Lewis
Lyrics written by Régis Laugier
Produced, mixed and mastered by Daffodil
Recorded at home during quarantine by Pascal Abbatucci Julien, Matt Cameron, Daffodil, Jean-Loup Faurat, Régis Laugier and Reuben Lewis
Graphic design and video by Hélène Mailloux
