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Includes unlimited streaming of Transnational Series 4 – Jack Joseph Love Levier / Manuela Ducatenzeiler
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The Transnational Series tells eight tales of how music finds its way to the listener. Each record is a thoughtfully tailored whole made up of music, graphics, photographs and texts allowing the audience a glimpse into the artists’ musical worlds. In general it is not easy to get an idea of how things happen ‘there’, as these ‘worlds’ often somewhat resemble windows; with each sash you open something new reveals itself. Accordingly we want to invite you to open up your mind. Hopefully you will find your way by listening, reading, seeing, and feeling – jumping back and forth between Manu’s lockdown studio sessions in an apartment in Buenos Aires and Robin’s intense musical gatherings in Geneva. And on the way you might find something essential for yourself.
All in all the transnational series encompasses a number of eight split records. Each of them brings the music of two artists together that we deem to match. The underlying idea is to place the work of an artist in a completely new context. However, we do not want to put things together that make no sense. It is important for us that each artist finds himself on a record with a counterpart that fits him or her. Thus we try to identify interesting parallels or contrasts between the musicians’ work and look for promising links in what they are doing.
Going transnational implies the crossing of borders. Nowadays we do this all the time. Digitally on the Internet, and in person by flying all over the world to see what is going on. Crossing is a requirement for comparison and learning. For some it easier to cross borders, for others they represent unscalable obstacles. We like it when people cross borders – preferring to frame the act of crossing as a bringing together instead of focusing on the dividing aspects it might imply.
The transnational series confronts artists of our homeland Switzerland with others from all over the world and invites you to do some “transnational travelling” of your own. The musical link between the split-fellows gets embedded in visual representations of the artists’ individual worlds made up of photographs of specific things, of places and events of their everyday life they provided us with.
credits
released May 26, 2023
Jack Joseph Love Levier:
music & lyrics by Robin Arthur Girod & The Jack Joseph Love Levier
recorded by Yavor Lilov, Post Von Arx, Robin Arthur Girod at Robin’s Studio In May 2020
mixed by Jennifer Gros
master by Simon Lancelot
Robin Arthur Girod (lead vocal, guitar)
Jack Joseph Love Levier are:
Post Von Arx (drum, backing vocal)
Yavor Lilov (drum, keys)
Pafol Lagep (guitar, keys, backing vocal)
Dave Mole Jr. (bass, backing vocal)
featuring:
Romano Bianchi (mandoline, backing vocal)
Ronan Yvin ‘Tierceman’ (trombone)
Manuela Ducatenzeiler:
music & lyrics by Manuela Ducatenzeiler and Pablo Heredia
recorded by Pablo Heredia at Studio Radio Cerebro Magico during 2021
mixed by Pablo Heredia
master by Simon Lancelot
Manuela Ducatenzeiler (lead vocal, guitar, bass)
Pablo Heredia (keyboards, synth, drum machine, guitar, vocals)
Evelyn Testai (vocals)
Choki (vocals)
Daniela Cenizo (vocals)
Max Vargas (vocals)
Transnational Series:
text by Niklaus Reichle
design & packaging by Ronny Hunger
concept by La Suisse Primitive
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