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01. PHARAON DE WINTER - Tocsin
02. PHARAON DE WINTER - Vue Sur le Caire
03. PHARAON DE WINTER - Ultramarine
04. PHARAON DE WINTER - Distant Trees
05. PHARAON DE WINTER - Le Futur
06. PHARAON DE WINTER - Ton Coeur
07. PHARAON DE WINTER - Pointillisme
08. PHARAON DE WINTER - Les Yeux
09. PHARAON DE WINTER - Paddy
10. PHARAON DE WINTER - Pharaon de Winter
ARTIST
TITLE
Pharaon de Winter
FORMAT
LP

LABEL
CATALOG #
BEC 5156257 BEC 5156257
GENRE
RELEASE DATE
12/11/2015

LP version. Pharaon de Winter was a relatively unsuccessful 19th-century painter from Northern France. Today it's the name of a band, but also the name of the song that changed its author's life. The ex-leader of the bands Toy Fight and (Please) Don't Blame Mexico (releasing with the latter First Aid (2006) and Concorde (2011), featuring the hit songs "The Protocol" and "Michel Foucault (Saved My Life)"), Maxime Chamoux's musical style could be placed somewhere between North American rock like Spoon or Neutral Milk Hotel and sophisticated British pop like Prefab Sprout or XTC. Then he decided to cut loose: "I was starting to get bored of indie rock and wanted something different," he explains. "I wanted to sing in French. I wanted to use more beautiful chords. For several months, I searched for a new shape and colour to give to these new songs. And one day, I had a kind of revelation. It was called Pharaon de Winter. From that day on, all the music I loved came together in a particular weave." Pharaon de Winter features ten songs naturally uniting influences ranging from the popular to the edgy: William Sheller's precise writing, Lucio Battisti's warmth, Steely Dan's refined groove, Arthur Russell's sense of adventure, Véronique Sanson's feel for melody...