Les Marquises - Lost Lost Los (2010)

Why bother with allegories and other metaphors to describe this first album composed of 6 fabulous titles? Lost Lost Lost (Lost Recordings) is a success in every way. Already mentioned here, the French-American group Les Marquises colors the canvas for a few weeks by his anthology of 6 brilliant videos, collected in the DVD Six Short Films About Lost Lost Lost whose release is imminent. The group composed of Jean-Sébastien Nouveau (Immune, Recorded Home), Jordan Geiger (Minus Story) and Jonathan Grandcollot (Pan Pan Pan) marks a real turning point in the history of French pop music. Like Ornette Coleman's The Shape of Jazz to Come, also composed of 6 tracks, which transcended jazz in the late 1950s with incomparable elegance, energy and emotion.

Lost Lost Lost was conceived and conceived under the influence of the ghost of Henry J. Darger (1892-1973), an artist interned for a long time in an institute known for his severity towards his patients. The narrative soberly titled Story of the Vivian Girls, in The Realms of the Unreal, of the Glandeco-Angelinnian War Storm, is a graphic work composed of hundreds of naive watercolors where the theme of the storm, justified by the crossing of a hurricane during Darger's numerous escape attempts, is recurrent.

This chaotic atmosphere is deliciously translated by the music of the group that captures us from the entrance of the rhythmic hypnotic Only Ghosts with its disturbing dissonant moods. Throughout the album, we will find this perfect balance between the fragile voice of Jordan and the arrangements carefully woven by keyboards, guitars and brass denatured or not. Whether it is by the grandiose Sound and Fury or the most stripped This Carnival of Lights, nothing is left to chance and details always come to satisfy the curiosity of the listener who renews himself before each listening. Lost Lost Lost is not composed of 6 titles but of a single entity with immeasurable limits. Lost Lost Lost is more than a record, it is an inexhaustible treasure.