Seim - Quinquis - Audio CD (Arrives in 50 days)

Mute’s newest signing, the multidisciplinary Breton artist Émilie Tiersen, has announced her debut album as QUINQUIS. SEIM - a collaboration with producer and artist Gareth Jones (Sunroof, Liars, Depeche Mode and Apparat). Over two albums Émilie recorded and released as Tiny Feet but her recent name change, which pays homage to her personal and family history by referencing her maiden name, represents a fresh start musically. Over a period of significant personal change, Émilie began forging a deeper connection to her own culture, history and identity, exploring new musical terrain and, became a mother. Whilst on tour with her husband and baby, Émilie saw her musical expression as a journey and began work on a new idea in each city. Characters - some from her own life, others rooted in the history of Breton culture - began to join Émilie on this journey, coming alive in song ideas. She discovered Ankou, a servant of death in Breton mythology, who appears on ‘Setu’; she explored Seiz Breur, a 1923 Breton art movement founded by a young woman in the very same small village she is from; she tapped into the lives of friends, exploring a rich tapestry of people, places, emotions and stories all tied together by a shared commonplace: Brittany. “I put the stories of those people around mine so that I could have them share this journey with me.” Once these ideas began to mutate into something more musical, she connected with Gareth Jones. Initially he was going to play synth but their partnership grew into something more collaborative. “The record revealed itself in the back-and-forth Gareth and I had,” she says. “It was really unexpected because Gareth and I are quite the opposite - he was the light to my darkness.” The result is an album that merges sparse electronics, immersive atmospherics, and deft melodies, carried by Émilie’s tender yet quietly soaring vocals, which are all sung in Breton.

Tracklist

1. Adkrog
2. Envor
3. Setu
4. Run
5. Mintin
6. Estren
7. Netra Ken
8. Og
9. An Divare
10. Te

Label: Mute | Origin: Holland