Thierry Waziniak

WE FREE "Strange but true"
1 Don't Know When We'll Be Back 4:31
2 In Abstracto 4:37
3 Strange But True 5:13
4 Is 2:23
5 This Is For You, But Are You Listening? 5:23
6 Better Than A Slap In The Face With A Wet Cod 9:04
7 Special Manu With Bow 3:02
8 Instabile 7:41
9 Everything Is Its Opposite 5:04
10 African Overtones 2:43
11 Brimming Over 2:03
12 Between The Material And The Skin 6:29
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Enregistré à – Studio Gam 
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Copyright ℗ phonographique – We Free 
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Copyright ℗ phonographique – Terronès 
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Copyright © – We Free 
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Glass master fabriqué à – SNA – M0093521 
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Coordinator – Gérard Terronès, Marianne Fernel 
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Double Bass, Loops, Effects – Colin McKellar 
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Drums, Percussion – Thierry Waziniak 
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Guitar, Sitar, Effects, Mixed By, Mastered By, Graphic Design – Pascal Brechet 
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Photography By, Artwork – Joël Hauet 
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Producer, Composed By – We Free 
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Recorded By, Mixed By, Mastered By – Emmanuel Vaillant 
All the music was improvised on the spot, nothing added, nothing taken away.
Recorded from February 25 to 27, 2014.
Mixing and mastering in July 2014
Ces types ne mentent pas avec le nom de leur groupe !
Compositeurs d'une musique totalement improvisée.
Ils développent des climats où l'on peut reconnaître l'ADN d'un blues, ou le déferlement d'énergie d'un free jazz qui aurait pris sa source dans le souffle des musiques minimalistes. Un jeu de guitare et de contrebasse en permanente expansion grâce à l'utilisation affirmée et inventive d'effets électroniques.
Des strates électriques, électroniques qui tendent le propos juste en deçà de son point de rupture, à la rencontre des percussions acoustiques vibrantes.
Aucune virtuosité (et pourtant!), ne parasite la musique, certaines attaques nous suggèrent un bon gros morceau rythmé mais nous sommes toujours tenus à distance, tenus en haleine et nos nerfs et notre imagination sont mis à contribution pour compléter ce que la musique évoque.
Soudain une mélodie que l'on pense reconnaître...
Mais le flot instrumental l'emporte dans un sentiment de liberté non formatée.
These guys don’t lie with their band name!
Composers of entirely improvised music.
They create atmospheres where one can recognize the DNA of blues, or the surge of energy of free jazz, seemingly rooted in the breath of minimalist music. Guitar and double bass interplay constantly expands through the confident and inventive use of electronic effects.
Electric and electronic layers push the music just below its breaking point, meeting the vibrant acoustic percussion.
No virtuosity (and yet there is!) interferes with the music; certain attacks suggest a big, rhythmic piece, but we are always kept at a distance, held in suspense, our nerves and imagination engaged to complete what the music evokes.
Suddenly, a melody emerges that we think we recognize…
But the instrumental flow carries it away into a sense of unshaped freedom.