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Phantom Solids

by Gilles Deles

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    Lunt is Gilles Deles’s musical alter-ego, working on a wide range of experimental projects, as a songwriter, sound engineer, invisible theoretician and co-founder of French-based label We Are Unique! Records, and more recently a video maker for Melatonine and King Kong Was A Cat. He is also a psychoanalyst with clinical practice and a philosopher, two fields he can never separate from his musical activities. Musical creation processes are a playground for immanent conceptual makings, because without these elements music eventually loses its very ground.

    Lunt's new album introduces a novel blend of sound textures - beyond the steep, if not coarse reliefs of the guitar saturations and feedback, often lies the softer, more delicate layer of the glockenspiel. So what is at stake no longer is sheer violence nor pure sweetness - one does not work without the other. Soft as snow, but warm inside.

    The two other prevailing elements of the record are Lunt's vocals and percussion. But they merely are both sides of the same coin - here stubborn and hammered, there peaceful and uncannily serene. Metaphor lovers will call this album a bed for a fakir. You do not need to be a masochistic listener to enjoy it, though; like in Sonic Youth's songs, the noise is never gratuitous. The beauty is the beast.

    Text by Mickael Mottet (Angil&The Hiddentracks, The John Venture, Jerri, Lion in Bed…)

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Your ghosts 08:24
It occurred to me you decide concepts were lost anytime we tried to speak. Hear my voice. Surrender to the noise which surrounds us. Silence is safe for now on. Vultures need sound, don't you know? Never state your doubts and follow The light, the light, the light. Inner states I'll keep them pretty Never meant to make us heavy! It occurred to me you decide concepts were lost anytime we tried to speak. I knew this when you were gone. Please, fight your ghosts on your own. It occurred to me you decide to blur meaning anytime we tried to speak There's no choice, surrender to the voice who says "leave now !" Silence was safe for a time. Vultures decide don't you know. Now choose a side and follow ... The light.
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Control all thoughts, pretend or not ? Undo poetry and phenomenology, Translate the hate and use the right words to do so, Between the lies We don't use the same words. Justify all chains and hide behind a curtain. Never be ashamed of contradictions. Is there a practice in mind ? Never be the one... We never use the same words. This is the way now Western civilization will fall. We all enjoy it but never challenge it. The worst is about to come.
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Read Psalm 102
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Let's idiots speculate, let them say. Freedom is there to dominate ? I am the other of the other, and the other says. Worthless efforts for everything we might know (do you mind now?) Let's idiot speculate, I let my world desegregate. Fix it all with sound. Networks are dying slowly of your vain speech Everything is equal : Knowledge and empty speech. So you say, you write, you claim, you shout but never, never Never Do... Now silence is an emergency for the wise.
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Don't you know here I'll go ? Where feelings are lost in the myst while fall begins in the east ? Don't you know tears will flow ? Now what could I believe ? My heart is in winter with no relief. Footnotes made no difference. Not the ones you care for. But traces were made to stay, traces were made to matter alone. Chasing you. Wanting to. Full on idle, it's time to rest. May your steps go back to the west.
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This he did in public for us to see. Everybody in the band is too fucked up to do the show. Between the pain and the stars Broken hub-caps and lost glass Trump has changed the constitution. White house white house white house run too. Let the city rise up to kill vinyl and silkscreen. Shirts tucked in and knobheads drowsing off. The keyboard guy can hardly hear the feedback. He's fucking falling asleep on his organ. Yesterday's dope was not dope at all. God, I've got a sore hip. The girls start in red patent feathers. Very 'I am in trouble with kneecaps. We watch her false brothers and gay clones.Voting the politic rules of life school dreadhead troopers. White house, white house run to. Let the CD rise up. Twitter, hoaxbuster instagram red. I'll see you, see you see you on the Kanye. You will hopefully merge your IDs with wrong horns and freak them.Miss Ivana, Miss Melania a couple of Miss Ivankas. The aged of the glazed press. At the throat of his public image. Limited yet, totally screwed up. Yes sir, yes sir, mess right up! All of us know where this is going to get to, what sort of light, what he is trying to wreck. You will hopefully merge your IDs with wrong horns and freak them. Treasons out of life. Everything for the rich. The U.S. are more confusing now than anywhere you've ever been to. I am from the Dasein city, breathe it in, and let it out. Where are we now when our awestruck are closed ? Our heads in a foggy nightmare of green khakis. Read Burroughs and never return. No flow motion, no hooks. Outlooks on sonic death. Hello 2024!

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Immeasurable, the
ocean of harmony, washing
scraps of tune onto
one or another shore, sloshing in
time, appoggiatura
across the Dolphin's
Ridge, each ripple
lost in
long resolves, dissonant
concord of surprising
distances, intervals at
extremes. In the midst
of spray, phantom solids.

Keith Waldrop
Chromatic Study (for Heide Ziegler) in The Ruins of providence

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released October 4, 2019

Photos by Jānis Vēliņš
Mastering by Matt Colton @Metropolis
Vocals and Lyrics on 7 by Mickael Mottet
Sax on 7 by Jerome Gillet
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Lunt Riga, Latvia

Žils Deless-Vēliņš has a mystical relationship to sound and music since he was a child and his crafting of music can be compared to a construction kit game, where music as a whole is more than the sum of sounds. For him, sound has some sort of kinship with the concept of pneuma in Stoician philosophy. Sound expects to be found to become music, lying there in an intuitive background. ... more

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