Crave (CD) (Digi-Pak)

2018 release. For her first album, 28-year-old Parisian artist Léonie Pernet carries you along in the whirlwind of an endless night. This record comes from such an oppressive desire that it has taken Léonie three years since her first EP Two of us to compose it and, finally, share it. Léonie is unique - drummer (as discovered in the band with Yuksek), pianist, arranger, and singer with a wide vocal range. Written in a solitude that only the producer Alf (Stéphane Briat) pierced through for the mixing process, Crave is a relentless album, as multiple and complex as the talents and influences of his author. When African Melancholia reminds us of the mechanical animals of Marilyn Manson, there is the appearance in Crave of the baroque spectrum of Klaus Nomi. Elsewhere are the echoes of Mansfield Tya, the memory of Jeanne Moreau, Rachmaninov or even Philip Glass and Caribou. A poem by François de Malherbe gives Rose it's words when the sublime Auaati approaches the anxiety of being in Arabic psalms.