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LE
LOUP - "The Throne Of The Third Heaven Of The Nations'
Millennium General Assembly" - Out, october 08th (FRANCE,
BENELUX, SWTIZERLAND)
During certain periods in life, creativity
goes beyond serving as an outlet for dealing with stress, beyond
being a welcome distraction, and becomes a compulsion. It is
at this moment, when creation starts to bridge the gap between
superfluity and intrinsic necessity, that some of the best art
is realized. For Sam Simkoff, the creative force behind Le
Loup, a similar cathartic tumult resulted in The Throne
of the Third Heaven of the Nations' Millennium
Assembly.
Created during a time of personal crisis,
The Throne is a cataclysm, an escape, and a journey. Inspired
largely by Dante's Inferno (also a journey conceived by a man
in a time of crisis), here an emotional catacomb is traversed
circle by circle. From Dante come apocalyptic scenes, rendered
from personal feelings of hopelessness and impending disaster.
Descent and escape are the central themes of "canto i" and "canto
xxxvi", which take their titles from the first and last chapters
of the Inferno, respectively.
Simkoff encountered the works of both Dante
and another artist, James Hampton, during the initial writing
of the record. The Throne takes its title from a piece of folk
art that was meticulously built over the course of nearly fifteen
years by Hampton, starting in the '50s. An engulfing homage
to another heavenly realm, Hampton was a harried, outsider artist
who kept his work a secret in a shed adjacent to his home. Consisting
of 177 individual pieces that were painstakingly assembled from
everyday objects, Hampton's throne became a delicate shrine
to the transcendent.
More than a thematic influence, Hampton's work
served as a model for pouring personal turbulence into work
in a frenzied manner. Le Loup also takes the subtitle of album
centerpiece "le loup (fear not)" from the crown jewel of Hampton's
throne, a placard at the top of his work wrought of tin foil,
urging the viewer to "Fear Not". This hopefulness, in the face
of uncertainty and despair, shines through on the epic album
closer "i had a dream i died."
The complex themes of The Throne are characterized
by mounting tension and dramatic swells, coupled with an engaging
emotional resonance that lifts just as much as it illuminates.
Simple melodies plucked on a banjo are buoyed by keyboard lines,
improvised percussion, and sometimes as many as a dozen overlapping
and intertwining vocal tracks, creating a complex and lush soundscape
which shrouds itself only long enough to surge into hugeness.
Conceptually abstruse while remaining fundamentally personal,
The Throne is a collection of rushing narratives that connect
the individual struggle of each of us to the death of the universe
in a manner that is both intimate and unshakably vital.
Le Loup is: Sam Simkoff – banjo, keyboards,
vox Christian Ervin – computer Mike Ferguson – guitar, amp,
vox Nicole Keenan – keyboards, french horn, vox Dan Ryan – bass,
percussion, vox Robert Sahm – drums, percussion May Tabol –
guitar, vox Jim Thomson – guitar, amp, vox
www.myspace.com/leloupmusic
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LE LOUP - "The
Throne Of The Third Heaven Of The Nations' Millennium
General Assembly"
1. canto i - 2. planes like vultures
- 3. outside of this car, the end of the world! - 4. to
the stars! to the night! - 5. (storm) - 6. we are god!
we are wolf ! - 7. breathing rapture - 8. look to the
west - 9. (howl) - 10. le loup (fear not) - 11. canto
xxxvi - 12. i had a dream i died
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