Notre–Dame–Des–Sept–Douleurs

Name: Notre–Dame–Des–Sept–Douleurs
Brand: Klô Pelgag
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The album Notre-Dame-des-Sept-Douleurs, released in June 2020, has garnered praise from critics and the public since its release. The highly influential American journalist Anthony Fantano reviewed the album on his YouTube channel, The Needle Drop, which is unprecedented for a French-language album. "There are tons of beautiful creative highlights in every corner of this project."

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« Notre-Dame-des-Sept-Douleurs is a place that exists geographically, but it’s also a place that exists in my mind. When I was a child, we’d pass...

« Notre-Dame-des-Sept-Douleurs is a place that exists geographically, but it’s also a place that exists in my mind. When I was a child, we’d pass by the sign announcing the village while travelling from Sainte-Anne-des-Monts to Rivière-Ouelle. Every time I saw it, I averted my eyes and shivered in horror. That name terrified me. I imagined a dying village with sad houses, empty streets and creaky chairs still rocking with the memory of deserters.

And now, after many years of overwork, I found myself exactly in that place. In the middle of all my anxieties, not knowing anymore who I was, taking hits and hating myself more than anyone else. A thick fog settled in my head, with black, opaque skies. I now lived on this island that I built or imagined on my own. I was lying in the dark on the bed of the rainbow (couchée dans le noir sur le lit de l’arc-en-ciel).

Then in August 2019, while I was starting to get my bearings back, I decided to visit Notre-Dame-des-Sept-Douleurs, the village. The initial thing I discovered was quite meaningful: it’s actually an island. I took the ferry and arrived in an idyllic place. A village with dirt roads and no more than 35 inhabitants, whose souls haven’t been perverted or spoiled by mankind. A village with no grocery store or gas station. A superb place. With trees and flowers, a lighthouse, colourful wooden houses, and fish whose flesh was so pure it went beyond my definition of the colour “pink.”

Slowly, I went through the village I imagined as a child, and I hope to never go back there. Now, I’ll go to the real Notre-Dame-des-Sept-Douleurs, where I’ll eat fish that smells like the river and whose colour bemuses me.»

– Klô Pelgag

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Vinyl: Black 12'' vinyl 140g
Vinyl Packaging: Gatefold with credits and lyrics printed on inner sleeve
CD Packaging: 6-panels cardboard jacket with folded lyric poster
WAV Files: 16-bit/44.1k
MP3 Files: 320 kbps
Label: Secret City Records
Release Date: June 26, 2020

Musicians

Klô Pelgag: Vocals / Piano / Synths / Samplings
Étienne Dupré: Bass / Synths / Guitar
François Zaïdan: Guitar / Synth
Pete Pételle: Drums / Percussion / Pinocles
Sylvain Deschamps: Guitar / Synths
Vincent Lauzer: Recorders
Marianne Houle / Mariane Bertrand: Cello
Mélanie Bélair / John Corban / Zoé Dumais / Félix Savignac / Chantal Bergeron: Violin I
Fany Fresard / Vanessa Marcoux / Geneviève Clermont / Frédérique Tanguay-Gagnon: Violin II
Ligia Paquin / Julie Boivin / Valérie Arsenault: Viola
David Carbonneau / Stéphane Beaulac: Trumpet
Renaud Gratton: Trombone
Maude Lussier / Louis-Pierre Bergeron: English horn
Jean-Sébastien Vachon: Tuba / Bass trombone

Production Credits

Production: Sylvain Deschamps / Klô Pelgag
Mixing: Pierre Girard
Mastering: Richard Addison
Painter: Florence Obrecht

Compositions

All songs were written and composed by: Klô Pelgag

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