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As a collective, they all want to achieve the same things: epiphanies and presence, friendship and purity. Their founding experience is a concert at the Paris venue Le Consulat where they feel a pressing need to return to their roots together. To be reborn as water, fire, air and wind. To no longer lose themselves in the meanders of demos and production. To get back to basics. To shake themselves into action.
In muggy paneled rooms, they write their first tracks, rehearsing them again and again with no breaks or safety nets. There are no more demos or rerecording, only the interactive dialogue of two guitars in synergy (Sage and Nicolas), the bass consolidating the beat (Theodora), and the cocoon of drums enfolding the whole (Zoé).
And over it all, casual but focused voices rise. First Sageâs, powerful in its acceptance of supreme fragility, and then the others, merging into warm, confident backing vocals that are both precise and attentive to any passing flaws â imperfections that are the stuff of grace.
In short, playing together to evoke the fallible, genuine progress of life. And so remind us of an obvious fact we sometimes forget: music is primarily an art of presence.
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"Within a heartbeat is the first song out of the recording session we did last summer with Sam Evian. We spent two weeks in his studio, lost in the Catskills mountains, to start working on our 2nd album. Itâs a track that had an instant magic during the recording, as we were playing and singing it live altogether in the same room with Samâs inspiring vibe.
The song sounds somehow familiar, like a classic tune that got lost in an attic full of records. Itâs the first time that an Astral Bakersâs song is interpreted by Ambroise and Theodora, forming a duet strengthened by Zoe and Nicoâs vocals on choruses, forming a choir, characteristic of the ABâs sound." - Astral Bakers
Cocteau Twins cover
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âWe wanted to pay tribute to the Cocteau twinâs famous song Cherry Coloured Funk and Elisabeth Frazerâs spellbinding voice. As we felt a familiar vibe with (felt drawn to) this song as a band, we decided to work on a version that would reflect our sound as Astral Bakers but also recreate the original guitar landscape, with hazy effects. We also wanted to evoke a sense of closeness and intimacy through the versesâ vocals, to create a new way of experiencing the song and build a bridge between the Cocteauâs universe and ours.â -Astral Bakers
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This is a tale of inevitability. Of four highly experienced musicians who find themselves in a room together and play as never before.
A kind of Soft Grunge, halfway between Big Thief, Supertramp and an unplugged concert by Nirvana.
Selected by Spotify for their RADAR program, and already acclaimed by critics (Libération, France Inter, Les Inrocks), this 10-track debut album, composed under live conditions, is already making its mark in the 2024 indie landscape.
