专辑名称：Mentors Menteurs
歌手姓名：Don Nino
唱片公司：Prohibited Records
发行日期：2007年06月18日
专辑流派：Indie/ Experimental
Raised between Europe and America and shaped through years of numerous musical experiences, Don Nino (a.k.a nicolas laureau) is one of those French artists who builds up their own musical idiosyncrasy.
His voice tends to synchronize with the intricate melodies and rhythms created using his various instruments of choice : acoustic and electric guitar, organ, piano, harmonium, electronics, banjo, glokenspiel, kalimba and many others...
The sober, minimalist poetry of his lyrics, touch a surface and hint at what seems to be a deeply personal source of inspiration.
His uncommon approach to modern urban folk music gives an original form to the songs. They shift from a mixture of deconstructed pop and bittersweet bossa nova to shades of jazz and to darker atmospheres that could be soundtracks of noir movies or to lighter pop songs. Far from easy listening, Don Nino still uses a great sensitivity, an original sense of composition, and the combination of acoustic and electronic sounds to show a new path into a modern universe of various melodies, rhythms and sounds.
His first solo album Real Seasons Make Reasons was a collection of songs which were composed throughout the years he's spent in various musical projects (Prohibition, nlf3 (trio)). It was produced with a few musicians and recorded by his brother F.Lor who has also recorded as of late: Yann Tiersen, Shannon Wright, Francoiz Breut, Dirty Three and many others.
The second album On The Bright Scale (2004) has been produced and recorded home by Don Nino, willing to find out an absolute intimity in the process of writing, composing, arranging and recording his songs. He isolated himself at his home, in his living room (Le Salon de Mu(s)ique(s), homage to Satyatjit ray) during a few months of 2004 to work out the musical landscapes and words he had kept secret. His fatherhood and all the feelings and changes it generates have also largely contributed to the mood of the album and the way it was conceived.
The new album - the covers album - "Mentors Menteurs!" was recorded and mixed at Microbe Studios, January and February 2006 with Ben Rault, Dominique Petitgand and F.lor. Shane Aspegren played drums, Frederic Simon played cornet and Tuba, Erik Minkkinen played prepaired guitars and Helena Nogerra sang the Caetano Veloso's cover together with Don. This covers project has been a long term thing, since two other homemade versions were recorded between 2003 and 2006.
01. ces petits riens
02. bela ludosi s dead
03. dominoes
04. at night
05. nenhuma dor
06. kiss
07. a day in the life
08. porque te vas
09. there is a war
10. express way to your skull
11. mentors menteurs !
12. like a virgin
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