Mes épaules seront rivières

"I’ll be the stranger in a place I’ve known" – ARBRE sound different. Returning to their characteristically expansive sonic realm, they fill it with raw yet profound resonances and sincere yet abstract poetry.
In "Mes épaules seront rivières" (translated as "My Shoulders will be Rivers"), their music walks on the concrete pavements of a metropolis. This album is not a refuge; it is a partially transparent mirror. It does not give advice; it observes and interprets, sometimes full of sorrow, sometimes with a damn broad smile and a generous dose of joyful defiance.
And just like that, the discarded ice-cream wrapper on the sidewalk begins to sparkle, while the posters on the wall are bathed in a neon colour palette. There, from the basement window, you can smell last night’s Techno. The streetlamp's cone becomes a swirl, revealing the setting sun at the end of the road, and the world expands. This album carries more weight, a sense of sobriety. But it is open and vulnerable, as if ARBRE want to say: “My shoulders will be rivers; I belong to the world, and the world belongs to me. We are everything that we are.”

"Mes épaules seront rivières" is an introspective piece that, above all, celebrates the beauty of self-acceptance.
credits
released October 27, 2023

Paul Butscher - Flugelhorn, Electronics, Vocals, Percussions
Mélusine Chappuis - Rhodes, Synthesizer, Electronics
Xavier Almeida - Drums, Piano

All songs composed & arranged by ARBRE
Lyrics by Paul Butscher

Production and Music Direction by Johannes Kellig
Recording, mixing and mastering at BauerStudios, Ludwisburg.
April-mai 2023

Artwork and graphism by Nic Canepa
Text by Sonia Loenne
Band picture by Lionel Nemeth
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