| Chrysalide - Biography : | |||||||||
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| 1. Biography : | |||||||||
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The band was founded in 1996 in Limoges around the bass player Geoffroy Vincens and the guitarist
Jacques Malinvaud. The first achieved project of the band is the album La Chute, which was
written and recorded between November 1997 and April 1998, with the help of the singer Marie Golfier.
The recording conditions, quite rudimentary, didn't allow the diffusion of this album. For faculty reasons, Chrysalide ceased its activity during year 1998. It is in the course of 2003 that the project came back to life, in order to record the opus called Après la Chute, third album of the trilogy that was initialy planned. The recording sessions took place in Bordeaux between february and november 2004. Subsequently to the advice of their surroundings, Jacques and Geoffroy decided to diffuse their work. Triptyque, the last album left to record is currently in the stage of composition ; the have just finished La Chute. | |||||||||
| 2. The Ambiance : | |||||||||
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The specifications of the sound of Chrysalide can be distinguished by the elements there below : - the music is mainly acoustic, built upon an acoustic rythm guitar, and an acoustic bass played using chords ; - the voice has a double function, it is either supporting the lyrics or used as an arrangement ; - the musical background has been completed, on Après la Chute, by several arrangements of electric and acoustic guitars , as well as tambourine and cello ; - songs are built upon structures frequently borrowed to classical music. | |||||||||
| 3. Shape of the albums: | |||||||||
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One of the goals of Chrysalide is to achieve a complete and coherent musical work,
in the lyrics as much as in the music. Therefore, the compositions are supported
by logically linked texts, on the album level as well as globally. Each album is composed of ten songs. La Chute and Après la Chute have their own introductive and conclusive songs, whereas Triptyque, the central opus, has the two other albums as a prequel and a sequel. Yet, each album can be taken separately. | |||||||||
| 4. Influences : | |||||||||
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Here is, in bulk, some of the musical and literary references that had influenced
the members of Chrysalide during the composition : - the Cold Wave, mainly Bauhaus and Joy Division ; - Progressive Rock of the seventies, as, for example: Deep Purple, Genesis (Peter Gabriel era), Led Zeppelin or the early work of Pink Floyd, in their long lasting songs ; - "Chanson française", for the arrangements, and particularly the following artists : Gainsbourg, Autour de Lucie, Superflu, Dionysos ; - liturgic and holy music for the construction of the songs and the vocal parts ; - symbolist and romantic poets of the 19th century : Arthur Rimbaud, Lautréamont, Charles Baudelaire, Les "Poëtes du Chat Noir" ; - medieval writers, such as Dante Alighieri. | |||||||||
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