One can be original – it is a conscious choice to be weird. But one can also be so immanently – it is then the consequence, collateral and above all welcome, of a particular vision. This poetics of the sublime accident is at the heart of Tout Bleu’s music, which is releasing a new record this Thursday, You Are Tree. Reminder: Tout Bleu is the project of the multi-instrumentalist (drums, guitar, vocals) Simone Aubert from Geneva (Swiss Music Prize winner in 2024, and can also be found in other local bands like Massicot and Hyperculte), accompanied by POL on machines, Luciano Turella on viola and Beatriz Raimundo on cello.
An uncommon instrumentation for equally unique music. The first temptation would be to play the hybrid card, and to say that indeed in the band’s music one can find elements from post-punk, krautrock, ambient, a guitar playing reminiscent of TônAyrô’s blues (like on the magnificent Ce dit univers, a burst of energy in the midst of the album), electro rhythms with a historical channel, a washed-out pythia voice, strings taking on the tropes of what Anglophones call modern classicalâ€&#brvbar;
