PLEIN NORD
by Xarah Dion
Martin Visser
Martin Visser
Wow! This is in the best of 4AD traditions you can get these days. If Ivo would hear Bucolique for instance, he would cry… Xarah; you did something beautiful with your voice on Bucolique, thanks! Brilliant record all over, sounds and production are spot on! One of my favourites for 2019!
Favorite track: Bucolique.
Flowing Glower
Flowing Glower
Definitely one of my favorite albums of 2019.
Favorite track: C'Est Un Acte Silencieux.
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Ethos Eros
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Volte-Face
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Avalanche
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Plein Nord
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Noces De Cuir
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Bucolique
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C'Est Un Acte Silencieux
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Blandine
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"Xarah Dion offers up her third LP PLEIN NORD. Brimming with incisive dance rhythms, the hypnotic compositions are a unique blend of past and contemporary coldwave. Dion has let time shape meaning and structure rather than forcing sound with a concept or aesthetic theme. Unknowingly, stripped bare, the album grew like mineral in the quiet dark – its irregular beauty, its throb and drive, its solitude and whisper, are the crystallized facets of process and patience.
Beneath PLEIN NORD is a rich foundation synthesized from Dion’s knowledge of music. After studying the waves (post-punk, new/minimal/wave, left-field house/techno...), she brings together her baroque music training, extensive musicianship and self-taught electronic music production to craft a vision of her own. At first guided by raw analog electronics, the album is powered by Dion’s renewed interest in production.
Embedded throughout PLEIN NORD are keys to its meaning. The title is meant as a direction (Due North) but also draws from the word PLEIN (full) and the implied contradiction of the Arctic as a symbol of emptiness facing a crowded future as the world changes under human influence. Using the secret code of langue française to express the thoughts over which she obsesses, Dion unfolds the surreal against the existential to reveal what cannot be spoken outright. Composition and lyrics are spaces and relations rather than stories. Dire narratives are sparsely etched, threaded together but never linear.
Pulsing with an intimate and visceral sound, PLEIN NORD will slide through your flesh and mind like a glove to the nervous system."
- Jovien Smith for Xarah Dion.
Beneath PLEIN NORD is a rich foundation synthesized from Dion’s knowledge of music. After studying the waves (post-punk, new/minimal/wave, left-field house/techno...), she brings together her baroque music training, extensive musicianship and self-taught electronic music production to craft a vision of her own. At first guided by raw analog electronics, the album is powered by Dion’s renewed interest in production.
Embedded throughout PLEIN NORD are keys to its meaning. The title is meant as a direction (Due North) but also draws from the word PLEIN (full) and the implied contradiction of the Arctic as a symbol of emptiness facing a crowded future as the world changes under human influence. Using the secret code of langue française to express the thoughts over which she obsesses, Dion unfolds the surreal against the existential to reveal what cannot be spoken outright. Composition and lyrics are spaces and relations rather than stories. Dire narratives are sparsely etched, threaded together but never linear.
Pulsing with an intimate and visceral sound, PLEIN NORD will slide through your flesh and mind like a glove to the nervous system."
- Jovien Smith for Xarah Dion.
credits
released June 1, 2019
Production, composition, songwriting : Xarah Dion
Mastering : Alain Paul
Artwork : Jean Lorenzo
(p) (c) Zodiaque Musique
Montréal 2019
Production, composition, songwriting : Xarah Dion
Mastering : Alain Paul
Artwork : Jean Lorenzo
(p) (c) Zodiaque Musique
Montréal 2019
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Xarah Dion Montreal, Québec
Producer, composer, songwriter, Montreal's Xarah Dion is a key player in the minimal wave scene.
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- Track Name: Ethos Eros
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La chute lente interminable
De la voûte vers la terre ferme
Se termine en éclat parabolique
Longue hémorragie d'infini courbe
Glacial
S'il faut repartir
Prends-les avec toi
L'Ethos et l'Eros
Les secours arrivent
En fragile bouquet de givre panique
Prêt à décapsuler l'amour, ah!, la noce
D'un rendez-vous automatique
Peu orthodoxe - Track Name: Volte-Face
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Ton ignoble idéal
De lâche
Tu en porteras toujours
La tache
Tes amitiés loyales
Se gâchent
Tu en connaîtras le
Volte-face
Dire que le sentiment est chose futile
C'est faire un immense plaisir aux lâches
C'est ça faire aller la pierre au tas
Là où le sang coule blanc
Là où tout est sans foi ni loi
Échec et mat, facile - Track Name: Avalanche
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Le sommet tout là-haut
Dans la glace blanche
L'imprévisible y danse
Jour comme nuit
Si haut
Il s'élance
Sans faille
Il tangue
Sur le flanc lisse et givré
D'où survient folle
L'avalanche
Sans haine ou malice
Elle dévale en trombe
Elle arrache l'imprévisible
De son insomnie limpide
À la montagne
À jamais endormi
Dans les sannes de neige
Il repose en paix - Track Name: Noces De Cuir
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Noces de cuir fétiche
Des nocturnes laïques
À loisir j'en défriche
La pudeur élastique
Dans l'étreinte nuptiale
À son socle et son axe
Volupté cardinale
Lorsque je climaxe
Corps fragrant de résine
Je m'embaume en sa myrrhe
En sa chair, je m'incline
Jusqu'au parfait délire
Noces de cuir, de pulpe
Nonchalante ou quantique
Les soupirs s'y décuplent
En suivant la métrique - Track Name: Bucolique
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La vallée parsemée de fleurs
Fragrante et brûlée par l'été
Porte en elle les secrets sauvages
Du sillon éternel des âges
Les sommets coiffés de rocaille
Entourent la terre fertile et blonde
La vigne croît, palpite et ruisselle
Du sillon éternel des âges - Track Name: C'Est Un Acte Silencieux
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Regarde...
Il est absent, parti depuis longtemps
Il nous a quitté
L'amour du Nord l'a emporté
L'amour du travail et de l'or
Regarde...
Il est là, très loin là-bas
C'est un acte silencieux sur la peau du désert
Plaqué seul sur la pierre de l'histoire de la terre
C'est un geste minutieux sur la crête d'un nuage
Beauté pâle, beauté rose, beauté verte d'une aurore
Un soleil se dessine comme un ligne dans la nuit
Pour la glace et l'ogive dans leur indifférence
Dans le vent point le jour de traction synthétique
Hématite et lichen dans la neige du désert
Regarde...
Il porte en son cou une lame
Il porte en lui le grain de sable
Très loin là-bas
Regarde...
Il est là