Chrysalide
The band was founded in 1996 in Limoges around the bass player Geoffroy Vincens and the guitarist Jacques Malinvaud. The first achieved project of the band is the album La Chute, which was written and recorded between November 1997 and April 1998, with the help of the singer Marie Golfier. The recording conditions, quite rudimentary, didn't allow the diffusion of this album.
For faculty reasons, Chrysalide ceased its activity during year 1998. It is in the course of 2003 that the project came back to life, in order to record the opus called Après la Chute, third album of the trilogy that was initialy planned. The recording sessions took place in Bordeaux between february and november 2004. Subsequently to the advice of their surroundings, Jacques and Geoffroy decided to diffuse their work.
Triptyque, the last album left to record is currently in the stage of composition ; the have just finished La Chute.Have you performed in front of an audience?Not now. But it may be possible that we do in a near or far future.
Your musical influences
Here is, in bulk, some of the musical and literary references that had influenced the members of Chrysalide during the composition :
- the Cold Wave, mainly Bauhaus and Joy Division ;
- Progressive Rock of the seventies, as, for example: Deep Purple, Genesis (Peter Gabriel era), Led Zeppelin or the early work of Pink Floyd, in their long lasting songs ;
- "Chanson française", for the arrangements, and particularly the following artists : Gainsbourg, Autour de Lucie, Superflu, Dionysos ;
- liturgic and holy music for the construction of the songs and the vocal parts ;
- symbolist and romantic poets of the 19th century : Arthur Rimbaud, Lautréamont, Charles Baudelaire, Les "Poëtes du Chat Noir" ;
- medieval writers, such as Dante Alighieri.What equipment do you use?
Morris and Epiphone PR-400 acoustic guitars, Hohner SE-35 Hollow body, a lot of percussions and Drum elements, Hohner Acoustic Bass, Cümbus, Cello.Admin
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