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Rin means mystery, or secret, in Breton. Rin is a record strewn with Breton idioms: Finvus, Askre, Balafenn, Brik.
Monolithe Noir’s second album Moira (Kowtow Records, 2020) again invited us to chase away some dusty demons, to stir up the past and let some space to repetition, in search of textures and atmospheres. And since each record is a research and also sometimes a way of contradicting what we had at all costs wanted to say before, Rin takes the opposite direction from Moira. By breaking down barriers, focusing on movement, forgiving mistakes and ultimately having fun.
Recorded and mixed between a cellar, two apartments and
a family home, this third album is more porous to the environments in which it was conceived.
Rin was made in peace and with the precious contribution of accomplice Yannick Dupont (Yokaï, Jahwar, Ottla) who brought in light and opened up to a more flexible, more lively way to write the music.
Brittany, the desire to rediscover it, was central in the writing process of the record and in the atmospheres that emanate from it. Sunken paths, gnarled trees, chiseled coasts, moor, Brest, lonely villages, peri-urban areas, a nuclear power station in the heart of Monts d ́Arrée. Rain, sun, many times in the day. Rin explores many... more
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released August 26, 2022
Written, produced and mixed by Monolithe Noir. Analog summing and additional mixing by Pieterjan Coppejans (Robot studios). Mastered by Remy Lebbos at Rare Sound Studio. Cover painting by Nina De Angelis. Released with Capitane Records.
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