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Ephemeral Feast

by La Jungle

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Intruder 01:16
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2.
Hallow Love ? 04:23
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3.
Rivari 06:09
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4.
No Eyes 03:42
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Another Look To The Women In The Gloom 03:37
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Couleur Calcium 03:59
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De Verna 04:59
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Intron 01:24
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The Lake 05:13
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VVCCLD 09:38
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Une année à peine après Fall Off The Apex, le duo kraut/noise belge La Jungle sortira le 10 juin prochain son cinquième album studio. Ephemeral Feast – Le Festin Éphémère – paraitra sur le label australien Stock Records, nouvel allié sur cette sortie, ainsi que sur les différents labels européens qui accompagnent le groupe depuis plusieurs années : Black Basset Records, À Tant Rêver du Roi Records et Rockerill Records. Il sera disponible aux formats CD, vinyle (2xLP) et digital.

Ce nouvel album a vu le jour au coeur des confinements successifs, loin des fêtes, des tournées et de la promiscuité que le groupe aime entretenir avec son public. Jim & Roxie l'ont composé au printemps 2020 au Rockerill dans la région de Charleroi, leur unique point de chute durant les semaines et mois de pandémie. Ils y ont écrit dix nouveaux titres plus froids et clairement moins festifs qu'à leur habitude. Définitivement influencée par un contexte loin d'être réjouissant, La Jungle fait cette fois usage de sonorités glaçantes. Elle abandonne le temps d'un disque ses gimmick dansants pour accorder une place plus importante aux peurs et angoisses qui transcendent l'existence.

À l'instar de son précédent opus, le groupe a confié ses nouvelles compositions à son comparse et ami Hugo-Alexandre Pernot, ingénieur du son et producteur ayant longuement œuvré aux célèbres Studios Davout à Paris, désormais disparus. Ensemble, ils sont retournés au studio Opus Grestain du coté de Honfleur au printemps 2021, dans un petit coin de paradis perdu et verdoyant situé à quelques encablures du Pont de Normandie, et y ont enregistré cet album.

Habités par ce permanent besoin de décrire leur société déclinante et un monde en inévitable perdition, Jim et Roxie ont donné à leur nouvel album un teint plutôt pessimiste et anxiogène, qui reflète une époque où les échelles humaines tendent pour le moins à disparaitre. Ephemeral Feast dresse le portrait d'un banquet outrancier qui touche à sa fin. Il évoque un festin durant lequel l'humanité aurait très probablement tiré sur la corde climatique et sociale, et joui sans vergogne des ressources forcément limitées que lui ont prodigué sa Terre d'accueil. Désormais, au moindre choc, l'équilibre fragile de cette statue de Mère Nature – présentée en pochette de l'album – pourrait bien s'effondrer une bonne fois pour toutes.

La pochette du disque – Peeble Lady – est l'oeuvre de l'illustrateur Gideon Chase (Us) avec qui le groupe collabore depuis ses débuts.

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Barely a year after Fall Off The Apex, Belgian kraut/noise duo LA JUNGLE will release its fifth studio album on 10th June 2022. Ephemeral Feast will be released on the Australian label Stock Records, a new accomplice for this release, joining the various European labels that have accompanied the band for several years: Black Basset Records, À Tant Rêver du Roi Records and Rockerill Records. This new release will be available on CD, vinyl (double LP) and digital.

Born in the heart of successive lockdowns, Ephemeral Feast is isolated from the band’s usual tours and parties and proves far-fetched from the promiscuity that the group usually likes to develop with its audience. Jim and Roxie composed it in the spring of 2020 at Rockerill in Charleroi (Belgium), their only base during the weeks and months of the pandemic. Ten new titles - proving colder and clearly less festive than their usual output - are bundled here to create an atmosphere that can only be described as far from pleasant. This time LA JUNGLE uses chilling sounds and leaves aside its dancing gimmicks to make space for the fears and anxieties transcending its existence.

As it did for Fall Off The Apex, the band entrusted its new compositions to its friend and sidekick Hugo-Alexandre Pernot, a sound engineer and producer who used to work at the famous (but now disappeared) Davout Studios in Paris. Together, they returned for recording to the Opus Grestain studio near Honfleur in the spring of 2021, in a lost corner of green paradise located a stone's throw away from the Pont de Normandie.

Inhabited by a need to describe both our declining society and a world that looks more and more doomed, Jim and Roxie have given their new album a rather pessimistic and anxiety-inducing tone, which reflects a time when mankind looks bound to disappear. Ephemeral Feast paints the portrait of an outrageous banquet that is coming to an end. It evokes a feast during which humanity would have gone too far and shamelessly enjoyed the necessarily limited resources that its host Earth lavished on it. From now on, at the slightest shock, the statue of Mother Nature – as it appears on the album cover – could well collapse once and for all.

The album artwork – Peeble Lady – is the work of U.S. illustrator Gideon Chase (Us) with whom the group has collaborated from its very beginnings.

credits

released June 10, 2022

Recording & mixing by Hugo-Alexandre Pernot
Preproduction by Steve Dujacquier
Mastering by Jean-Charles Panizza (Climax Mastering)
Artwork © Gideon Chase

Recorded at Studio Opus Grestain
Fatouville-Grestain, France, March 2021

À Tant Rêver Du Roi (FRA)
Black Basset Records (BEL)
Rockerill Records (BEL)
Stock Records (AUS)

Promo shoot by Studio Derville
Video teaser by David Temprano

Out 10th June 2022

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