Portron Portron Lopez Ice Cream Soufi Vinyl 2022 Ltd Dinked Edition #189
Dinked Edition : DINKED #189
· Black Vinyl LP
· Alt colour (green) screen-printed sleeve *
· Bonus 13 track CD, “A Bakers Dozen” *
· Bonus Vinyl 7” of two unreleased tracks *
· Hand-numbered *
· 300 copies *
Tracklist:
1. Comment Vas-Tu Rossignol
2. Pensées Sans Tête
3. A Stranger I May Be
4. Trois-Cent-Dix-Huit Poussettes
5. Aubes
6. Fin de Partie
7. Tayau
Bonus 7”:
A: Train Bluc
B: Kula
13-Track Bonus CD:
1. BICHETTE
2. SOL MAMMOUTH
3. JEROME
4. VELVET TARGUI
5. UNE BARQUE SUR L'OCEAN
6. LEELOO
7. ADIOS JUAN NAVIDAD
8. BICHETTE II
9. EVERYBODY'S GOT A NUMBER IN THE NECK (LIVE)
10. LA CHAUVE SOURIS (LIVE)
11. CIRCUS
12. TRAIN BLUC
13. KULA
Portron Portron Lopez don’t do concepts. There are no great discussions about where they should pull their influences from, or pre-planning about how to structure studio work. The Parisian-formed trio exist in spontaneity, a creative co- habitancy that relies on feel and groove – as evidenced on their three studio albums to-date. Exploratory odysseys that bely the potential pitfalls an improvisational-minded group might fall into during the recording process, they’ve moved between shades of psychedelia and Middle Eastern-inflected drones as well as more electronic and club-based touchstones, doing so in a way that feels effortlessly free. That sense of adventure is furthered still on forthcoming album, Ice Cream Soufi.
Recorded across six different locations over a period of 20 months, sessions saw the trio set up everywhere, from various rehearsal studios to band members respective homes, a large church in Sète and an old barn in Normandie. The three group members are now spread out across Paris, Corrèze in the central west of France and Sète on its south coast. All that meant, though, was that the sessions for the album took on even more of an improvisatory vibe as they sought to make the most of their increasingly limited time together.
“One of the greatest achievements of these sessions was being able to put up an album that is like a house with lots of different rooms” they say. “You never want to stick in the main hall when you're visiting someone, and that's the feeling youmay have when listening to a record fully recorded and mixed in the same place and time. For us, the live nature of the tracks and the different moods they take on make it feel more like a journey through us.”
And beyond the feeling of it, nothing else matters.
*Limited to 1 copy per customer/household, multiple orders will be cancelled without notice.