Bruno Karnel: "Amra"
Intoxicated with pisco and raki, BRUNO KARNEL's nomadic rock is a mandala where guitars dance the saraband with Ukrainian mandolin, Peruvian charango or Turkish saz. Interested ears will find echoes from Thiéfaine, Peter Hammill or Dead Can Dance – sometimes a je ne-sais-quoi from the old Anathema's. Instrumental and experimental "A-Kubos" (2013) is followed by darkly lunar "Insolence" in 2016 and "3 contes + 1", a 4 pop/rock tales. From 2017 to 2019, launching of the "Satellites" : 4 EPs representing 4 sides to "BK"'s music. Charango rock, foggy prog rock, heavy folk andino... world instruments overlap or replace guitars in these strange bubbles, well received by French and South American webzines, as well as British magazine "Prog". In his ultimate "Satellite", "En ti sólo", Bruno pays tribute to César Vallejo : the adaptation of a text by the great Peruvian poet gives birth to an impressive video, financed by crowdfunding, and directed by young Valentin Ponot. The video features mindblowing fire acrobatics, courtesy of Max B. Performer together with Acrobat Afo !
While promoting the Satellites, Bruno meets Frédéric Gerchambeau, a great modular synthesizer wizard. The project of an EP soon becomes an album : "Amra" ("Eternity", in Sanskrit). Tentacular monsters born in mad scientists' laboratories, wild friction of SF machines and electroacoustic strings, these epic and dystopian tracks by FGBK catapult surrealist poetry, visions from space and tribute to Native American languages like quechua or nahuatl. The acme is the terrifying "Axolotl", a 16 minutes' Proteus where Van der Graaf Generator's spirit of chaos drowns memories of 90's doom ! The album is mastered by Louison Oranjor, who already worked on "En ti sólo".
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