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INTERVIEW WITH PROJECT MASTERMIND GAUTIER SERRE BY CALEB R. NEWTON I gorrr’s invigorating music operpretending to be anything else includes Serre’s “personal musical do that, during the lunch break, ates completely outside of tradithan what the music says,” Serre hero” George Fisher featuring I went back to the studio, alone, tional genre boundaries. Where explains. “The music and this on “Parpaing” and contributions and I just sat at a piano to play else would you hear George album particularly represent the across the album from violinist anything that came to my fingers Fisher of Cannibal Corpse-fame complexity of a human brain by Timba Harris (who has performed without any conscious thinking.” delivering his signature, monstrous showing all those states of mind, with Mr. Bungle, among others), growls over antsy, 8-bit electronic sometimes at different times, pianist Matt Lebofsky, accordion That’s when the melody that music? sometimes together at the same player Pierre Mussi, and many Bardiaux eventually performed on time—like with life, sometimes you more. Some of these collaborative “Hollow Tree” came to him. The France-based band’s new may get confused, having mixed sessions sparked whole, new tracks album Spirituality And Distortion is feelings. Everything is not always for the album, Serre explains. For “I feel very glad that we succeeded available on March 27 via Metal black or always white. Things are example, the track “Hollow Tree” doing this record,” Serre shares. Blade Records and also includes sometimes a bit mixed up.” grew from a melody that Serre “It’s every time a real challenge–I contributions from a 1950s, stumbled across while playing the really mean it; it takes 100 percent Syrian version of an instrument That’s where the completely piano to unwind from strenuously of my life doing such a thing, and, known as an Oud, a Neapolitan unbridled sonic adventurism on careful recording sessions with to be honest, I’m happy to be still harpsichord, a violin, and another the album comes in. harpsichordist Benjamin Bardiaux. alive now with this piece of music Middle Eastern instrument in my hands. This time, again, I called a Kanoun. Intense metal “Spirituality And Distortion is a “I choose to record on an ancient was going through a long and and electronic beats also make journey through many feelings,” Neapolitan harpsichord, a very hard journey that was completely bombastic, attention-grabbing Serre notes. “Coming from deep, small one with an impressive sound unknown to me, not being sure appearances, many of which and honestly strong, human definition and quality. The slightest where it may lead or if it would be get topped-off with dramatic, emotional power, sometimes even sound of breath or movement of good or not. I didn’t even know if operatic vocals from collaborator an introspective psychological feet was destroying the recording,” I will be able to finish it, but I kept Laure Le Prunenec. feeling, contrasted with groovy, Serre explains. “It is like spending going instinctively, like in the fog.” stupid, hangbangable, and funny five hours watching every one Project leader Gautier Serre explains parts. It also passes through of your breaths and movement, Eventually, he succeeded, adding: that he used the development of this delicate and refined baroque and being one hundred percent “Now that the music is finished, I feel new album as a chance to freely parts and vintage French musette focused. This whole process went happy, proud, and I feel that I have dive into the complexity of the heavy, waltz mixed with death metal.” down twice a day.” something extremely valuable in mental states that we walk around my hands.” �� �� �� with, himself included. Serre assembled a large cast of Yet, that’s not where he stopped. musicians for his latest venture, “This album represents a state of which he feels is especially “I had to let go of my mind a bit and mind without any filter, without “spicy” and “theatrical.” That list relax it,” he continues. “In order to

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