In Sofia, he met with the Mystère des voix Bulgares group. In Bali, he went deep into the jungle with the Suar Agung Group, who play jegog, a particular form of gamelan, to record the astounding « Silicon Jungle ». Several trips, to Bali, Japan, and also Bulgaria, have thus fueled the album, clashing with and shaping the electronic architectures of Para One. Machines of Loving Grace is both the story behind and the result of it.Īfter defining the structure of the album, Para One went exploring the sounds, and the figureheads that shaped his sensibility as a musician: soundtracks of Japanese anime watched hundreds of times Indonesian drums and gamelan the peculiar harmonies, on the verge of dissonance of Bulgarian Voices Steve Reich’s minimal music or Detroit techno music. For the musician/producer, this personal, identity quest doubles with a quest for sound. “When you go down the path – of a work, of a person, of the past – you never really find out what was. Just like Sanity, Madness & the Family (the feature film directed by Para One that he just finished and of which it is a consubstantial part), Machines of Loving Grace has an investigation around a family secret and the father figure as its starting point. And then revisit it to make something new out of it. He had to go back – without giving up on his position as an adult, as a full-fledged artist – to the sources of his imagination, to the moment when music was holding almost mystical power.
To do so, I had first to allow myself to do so”.Īllow oneself and maybe above all confront oneself – with one’s childhood, with one’s childhood’s ghosts, and what fantasies, ideals, memories, and grey areas they harbor. “I needed to break away from patterns and systematisms of formats, and take unexpected turns.
Six years after Club, eight years after Passion, his previous LP, this lover of electronic music, who has also been putting his sensitivity to the service of movies (soundtracks for Céline Sciamma in particular) opens with this record a new dimension in his artistic career. It is an object freed from constraints, formats, genres, territories: the gospel of a new world. Machines of Loving Grace, the new album by Para One, whose real name is Jean-Baptiste de Laubier could be called fiction. Incredible work with influences (Kenji Kawai, Midori Takada, Steve Reich, Drexciya, The Orb etc) that will make WRWTFWW listeners happy. New PARA ONE album, double LP, half speed mastered 180g vinyl, sleeve with UV spot varnish, exclusively through WRWTFWW Records in collaboration with Animal63. The Para One double LP + the limited SPECTRE sweatshirt, screenprinted on super comfy Gildan GD56 heavy sweater.
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