Funk by Baron Rétif & Concepción Perez
BARON RETIF & CONCEPCION PEREZ’ sound swims against the current, wisely taking the jerky path of sequences, nostalgic of a ltered house, with vocoders in French and escapes «Brazilian funk», Balearic foot, Parisian clubs, French Riviera « payotte » and transalpine disco. A flow of simple harmonies for sophisticated sounds. A groove from the origins, within a big bath of culture, dream of the islands. Music of the coasts and the sides.
Their beats: cadences shifted from the following, subsequent their EP Cascades, in 2012, and their rst album Navettes, in 2016. Funk is a guitar-less album, obsessed by «clavinet», the one from Stevie or Herbie.
The origin of the word funk is to be sought in the sweat, preferably from a game or a dance, but always seen as the fruit of the e ort, the one that leads to creativity and emancipation.
When the city sleeps, the duo records electric pianos and drums of collection, vintage analog synthesizers, thousand-year-old cymbals, latin timbales and percussions from di erent horizons. Sweating & combined with the ordinal sequence of the big computer. A nominal box, the digital rhythm.
The goal is within reach: to take the beat from the arti cial intelligences, to let the pulsation move, moving, dancing without robotizing, to think of not going too fast, to do it - never automatic - always elastic, it was the moment to record , many times in many years.
Two collaborations on this album:
> Raphael Guattari, the French-Brazilian of the Cluster Ensemble,
comes along to slide the nueva onda with his legendary phlegm tinged
with rnb and a crocodile story.
> Fulgeance the Norman producer who slaps with Souleance,
offers a high- flying French touch boogie bass line.
Tracklist
| 1. | 90271 Bonze | 3:20 |
| 2. | Ela Ja Sabe (com Raphaël Guattari) | 3:51 |
| 3. | Mélodinédite | 2:50 |
| 4. | L'oeil insulaire | 2:37 |
| 5. | On fait comment | 4:07 |
| 6. | Italien chaussette lin | 4:39 |
| 7. | C'est bien (avec Fulgeance) | 3:35 |
| 8. | Bit bazari | 3:23 |
| 9. | Plus de funk | 4:54 |
Credits
Concepcion Perez – synths, pianos
Baron rétif – drums, percussions, keys
Raphael Guattari – vocals (Ela Ja Sabe)
Fulgeance – bass guitar (C’est bien)
written and produced by Baron Rétif & Concepcion Perez
mix & mastering by Fulgeance
artwork & graphic design by Pierre Brissonnet
P & C Almost Musique & Musique Large 2023
License
All rights reserved.
French Label created in 2007, managed by Rekick & Fulgeance.
Born with the idea of making music they love, they produce artists like Ghislain Poirier,
Débruit, Fulgeance, Charles Trees, King Knut, Ben Butler & Mousepad, Laurent Garnier, Onelight, XXXIII, Baron Rétif & Concepcion Perez.