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Go to their site right now. Put your email address in the box. Press button to submit the form. Wait a few minutes. Check your email. Click the link, download the 38mb file. While it’s downloading read about them. Unzip it. Start listening to the album. Start disbelieving. I even set the link to their site to navigate you away from my blog because I trust that once you’ve read about what Patrice and the kids are doing in Cognac, and listened to them you’ll come back and finish this article. Of course I haveto finish the article. So for now just enjoy the choir

Look how much fun they are having! Have you seen kids in an American Middle School classroom having this much fun?

He’s Simple, He’s Dumb, He’s the Pilot

Track 1: He’s Simple, He’s Dumb, He’s the Pilot”
I was expecting a Pink Floyd-esque treatment of this one from the onset, but quickly realized that Patrice’s arrangements are all his own. He has the kids speaking in very mature voices at times, mature in tone and in that most of the girls are at the bottom of their vocal ranges at times. This creates an important weak and fragile quality to their voices. If you are going to do Grandaddy. You have to be able to do weak and fragile. Overall this rendition gave me chills, especially when I realized that alot of the kids might have no idea what they are singing about, then their accents come through and giggle and weep a bit.

Track 2: “The Go in the Go For It”
I know this song very well. It makes it into almost every shuffle of my iPhone. Usually shows up within the 1st 50 tracks. Anyways, I was wildly distracted by the overly distorted guitar sound that kicks off the song, and the 4 girls were very drowned out by it. No matter, as soon as they hit the chorus their harmonies really level things out. I smiled as soon as I heard that highest harmony  I love how they say “zat”, instead of “that”.

Track 3: “Nonphenomenal Lineage”
Patrice says that this track reminds him of the Surrealist Munch’s “Le Cri” (“The Scream”). Lush soundscape, lilting, long sustaining voices, even tone qualities, and arpeggios all meld into quite the surreal landscape.

More to come…