One can become original – it is a conscious choice to be strange. But one can also be in an immanent way – it is then the consequence, collateral and especially welcome, of a particular vision. This poetics of the sublime accident is at the heart of Tout Bleu’s music, who is releasing a new album this Thursday, You Are Tree. Reminder: Tout Bleu is the project of the multi-instrumentalist (drums, guitar, vocals) from Geneva, Simone Aubert (Swiss Music Prize in 2024, who 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 music that is just as unique. The first temptation would be to play the hybrid card, and to say that indeed in the group’s music, there are elements of post-punk, krautrock, ambient, a guitar playing hinting at Tônnerre blues (like on the beautiful Ce dit univers, a burst of energy in the middle of the album), electro rhythms from the historical channel, a washed-out pythia voice, strings adopting the tropes of what English speakers call modern classical…
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