The Whole Story, by Astral Bakers

The Whole Story

by Astral Bakers

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1.	Shelter 06:28	buy track
2.	Pretty Scar 04:12
3.	I Don't Remember 04:01	buy track
4.	Beautiful Everything 04:18
5.	One More 04:30	buy track
6.	Something New 06:42
7.	Why 04:06
8.	Easy 03:40
9.	Only Lonely 05:01
10.	The Whole Story 02:32

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This is a tale of inevitability. Of four highly experienced musicians who find themselves in a room together and play as never before.

A kind of acoustic rock, some would call it. Soft grunge, others would claim. Sung in English, they would all agree. Somewhere between Big Thief, Supertramp and an unplugged Nirvana show. But labels do not matter, the main thing is the substance. Which is elemental.

Sage, Theodora, Nico Lockhart and Zoé Hochberg already know each other, having worked together on tours and recording sessions. All have been professional musicians for over 10 years. And all have worked with artists as diverse as Woodkid and Victoires de la Musique winners (French Grammys equivalent) Clara Luciani, November Ultra, Pomme. Each is skilled in studio arrangement and the art of intertwining tracks on a computer. And each has a perfect mastery of stagecraft.

As a collective, they all want to achieve the same things: epiphanies and presence, friendship and purity. Their founding experience is a concert at the Paris venue Le Consulat where they feel a pressing need to return to their roots together. To be reborn as water, fire, air and wind. To no longer lose themselves in the meanders of demos and production. To get back to basics. To shake themselves into action.

In muggy paneled rooms, they write their first tracks, rehearsing them again and again with no breaks or safety nets. There are no more demos or rerecording, only the interactive dialogue of two guitars in synergy (Sage and Nicolas), the bass consolidating the beat (Theodora), and the cocoon of drums enfolding the whole (Zoé).

And over it all, casual but focused voices rise. First Sage’s, powerful in its acceptance of supreme fragility, and then the others, merging into warm, confident backing vocals that are both precise and attentive to any passing flaws – imperfections that are the stuff of grace.

In short, playing together to evoke the fallible, genuine progress of life. And so remind us of an obvious fact we sometimes forget: music is primarily an art of presence.

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released February 9, 2024

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Astral Bakers Paris, France

C'est l'histoire d'une évidence. Quatre musicien.nes confimé.es se retrouvent dans une même pièce, et font de la musique comme pour la première fois. Un genre de Soft Grunge, en anglais, à mi-chemin entre Big Thief, Supertramp et un concert unplugged de Nirvana. ... more

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