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It’s been such a long wait for me, but on 7th June you will finally be able to hear the first songs (literally the first, as it is the suite of 3 movements that opens the album) from my new double album Thrill Jockey Records

Expect a tour announcement pretty soon afterwards, with more dates to be added later in the year. Apart from the US where I will be doing a traditional “condensed” tour, the idea is to spread the dates over fall, winter and spring 2024 so that it’s not too hard for me physically and psychologically, and so that I don’t leave the kitties on their own too often and too long.

In the meantime, I have just made available on Bandcamp “Conditional”, the song I made to betatest Moog’s Moogerfooger plugins, as a free or pay what you want download.

On the new album I don’t sing, so this was a great opportunity to do something different and sing lyrics that hold a lot of meaning for me.

“Conditional” is about a deeply-seated psychological mechanism at work in almost everyone, myself included: the tendency to make one’s sense of “happiness” conditional on a particular desire being fulfilled. The idea that once you get a certain something, either material (objects – for musicians typically an instrument or piece of gear -, a house, a specific living place, a travel experience, etc) or immaterial (a relationship, a career or work achievement, a certain physical appearance, a physical ability, technical proficiency at a skill, perceived wisdom or intelligence or any other quality, etc), *then* you will be happy. Of course the wheel of life spins in a different way… Making this song was part of an attempt to both accept and overcome this very human aspect of myself.

Photo by Luis Torroja

PS: I make my own clothes: Grainline Studio Hadley top in Metermeter sanded cupro, self-drafted shorts.

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