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Myst​è​res

by V I X I V

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The Rite of the Sun ( I. Dawn II. The awakening of nature III. Zenith) 06:26
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Gondwana 05:05
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Last crossing of the slave ship 05:36
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Cold depth 06:07
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Kaiowas (Sepultura cover) (free) 03:55
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Maloya of the lost souls 04:35
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Journey to the Moon land ( I.Twilight II.Alizés III.The dreams waggon ) 05:31
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"An acoustic and ageless music, like his visual production tends to be, weaving correspondances with the visual artworks. Compound and traditional, Vivien Racault’s music uses dissonance like black color is used in his photographs : an element capable of increasing depth of field." Vincent PION, Le Quotidien (edition of the 24th of June 2008)

Made in coproduction between the Reunion Island Artothèque and Vivien Racault, "Mystères" is an original musical creation composed by the artist and performed by him and 6 other musicians. This music supports the photomedia artwork and is an integral part of the eponymous exhibition.

Music incorporates the whole photography work and breathes what the artist describes as a Middle Ages Death Dance–like dynamic into it : every beings from every images - whatever may be their species, their identity, their gender, their era or the place from where they address us – is drawn up by a physical and metaphysical flight, the inescapable course of the universe. Primordial material, this musical “tohu-bohu” is the universe memory, the invisible thread that links each being, each thing, each particle of the cosmos. It is relationship. This music carries you away during a 24 hours earth cycle, “mise en abyme” of the universe cycle, from the beginning to the end of times. Played by 7 musicians, this cycle in 7 acts, from sunrise to moonset, carries along spaces and times: it is an acoustic epic which one cannot date nor link to any musical known category.

The deep and intangible mystery that arises when listening to this musical creation finishes putting the photomedia artwork in perspective: the Human History perspective and the universe perspective, the eternal story of the Conscience rising to her own consciousness, achieving its own revolution. The story of Creation in progress.

credits

released June 21, 2008

Vivien Racault : composition, guitars, all vocals
Vincent Perennou : drums
Ronan Halle : bass guitar
Greg Przepiorka : dijeridoo, bongos, congas, kayamb, rainstick, shakers
Vincent Mornas : violins
Jean-Louis Begue : bass guitar on "Kaïowas", kayamb
Gautier Lajoinie : composition and guitar on "Cold depth"
"Maloya of the lost souls"'s original theme composed by Nicolas Dupont
Mixing by Jean-Louis Begue
Mastering by Jean-Paul Jansen
Charly Hellmann, Delphine Grosse and Emmanuel Freard
helped creating the sound transitions

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Originally an islander from Indian Ocean, French visual artist Vivien Racault (aka Zone 51) is also the mind behind V I X I V, a retro-futuristic art rock project exploring ever-changing musical territories.

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