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Mule Jenny | All These Songs Of Love And Death

Mule Jenny is the new project of Étienne Gaillochet (We Insist!, Zarboth). Today, IDIOTEQ is premiering together with a fascinating track by track his entire debut album "All These Songs Of Love And Death".

Mule Jenny is the new project of Étienne Gaillochet (We Insist!, Zarboth). "All These Songs Of Love And Death" is his debut album which will be released on December 10, 2021 via labels Grabuge Records, Araki and Figures Libres.

In a setting of complete freedom and solitude, work began on these tracks at the end of We Insist!'s last tour in 2018 by means of experimentation in the studio. Songs that were always in progress, never finalised, with no stict composition method used. Moving away from the references and guidelines of We Insist! and Zarboth, each song has the capability to surprise through complex rhythms, unusual harmonies, while retaining a traditional song structure, without losing the common thread of strong vocals and melodies. There was one single constraint throughout the recording of this album: not to use MIDI and to perform everything.

Étienne set to work learning new instruments that he had always been eager to play, first and foremost the guitar on which the starting point of each song on the record was found. For arrangement purposes, a vibraphone was added to the structure, and finally the indispensable bass guitar, resulting in a record full of intricate vocals and a smoother, opulent sound overall than previous compositions. These new musical experiences and discoveries have allowed Etienne a new outlook and freshness with his life-long relationship to music...

Read more about the album here : https://fiverosespress.net/mule-jenny/



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