- 2024-08-15
-
MUSIC
-
Fievel Is Glauque Announces New Album “Rong Weicknes”, Shares New Song “As Above So Below”
Belgian-American jazz-pop duo Fievel Is Glauque, consisting of Ma Clément and Zach Phillips, has announced their sophomore album “Rong Weicknes” will be released on October 25, 2024 via Fat Possum.
This marks their first body of work in two years since the 2022 album “Flaming Swords”.
The album comprises a 15-track, which the duo recorded with Thom Gill (guitar), Logan Kane (bass), Daniel Rossi (percussion), André Sacalxot (saxophone/flute), Gaspard Sicx (drums), and Chris Weisman (guitar/electric sitar) at the Outlier Inn, a farm and studio in upstate New York.
From the album, theduo released the first single called “As Above So Below” on August 14, 2024.
The track was written by Marie-Amélie Clément, and Zach Phillips who also produced it.
The accompanying music video was directed by Joey Agresta.
The duo said of the song, “This phrase comes from the Emerald Tablet, a 9th century hermetic text foundational for alchemy and later occultist movements; it refers to the reciprocality between heaven and earth, the knowable and unknowable, the here and the hereafter.”- They continued, “Sounds heady, right? But as usual, the title came out of nowhere, gleaned from phonetic murmurings during the writing process, and Ma and I laughed a lot making this one… Normally we write linearly, improvising bit by bit using only piano and voice, but we ended up constructing As Above out of scattered song sections we’d recorded with my laptop mic in free software over a loop from a ‘70s drum sampling record, which drummer Gaspard Sicx and percussionist Daniel Rossi reinterpreted in the studio. After writing upwards of 35 songs over the course of a couple 2023 writing trips, we were surprised to knock out probably our most conventional tune yet.”
-
They added, “The lyrics could be said to both troll and co-sign typical pop lyricism. Thom Gill’s blazing guitar solo gets me every time… When [music video director] Joey Agresta asked what I was imagining visually, all I could muster was, “The Sound Of Music, Ma spinning in a field, ‘90s ‘positivity,’ Dido...” - source : Apple Music
