Evoking a world you can make your own

It's a very intimate, yet far-from-diary work that speaks humbly of laying bare, despite the young man's impressive all-round baggage. With the freshness of a spontaneous gesture that is more inward than demonstrative, the eight tracks seem to have adapted to the constraints of place, time and space, drawing an intimate and emotionally charged place for the listener to hear. A highly melodic album, full of experimental sonorities brought to life by the choice of a "primitive" recording technique, by the now traditional means of expression. lo-fi drawn from the roots of '60s garage rock, we're in the presence of a project that's anything but aseptic, one that finely conveys the values of a fiercely independent music. underground. It was in this milieu, tinged with the hyper-contemporary and the extreme, that Louis Jucker developed his personality, on the basis of a classical background that naturally led him to evolve towards experimentation and research, through a daily exercise of testing, making microphones and other fiddling, which became a very personal way for him to fight against frozen art. A raw aesthetic that lends an extra touch of authenticity to these "orphan" emotions that will no longer inhabit these places, that have already left them because every story has an end and it's already time to go and touch people elsewhere...

Louis Jucker's first approach to more accessible, simpler, even radio-friendly music - a novelty in his career - is to write free, simple lyrics that allow us to project ourselves. The evocation of a world to make one's own. This beautiful album doesn't stop there, and offers a soundtrack to the visual work Augustin Rebetez created for this project. The artwork forEight Orphan Songs is important. It's about an artist's object to be seen and heard, designed to tell a story. Entirely hand-crafted - even if this limited edition is already unobtainable - this album is more than just a pretext for mixing genres, it's a powerfully evocative work, a testament to the boundless curiosity and creativity of artists who are definitely worth following.

Louis Jucker, "Eight Orphan Songs". Hummus Records, www.hummusrecords.bandcamp.com