Zach Phillips and Ma Clément have announced new Fievel is Glauque album Rong Weicknes which will be out October 25 via Fat Possum. It’s their first for the label. The album was made as an octet, with musicians from US, Belgium and Canada including: Thom Gill (guitar), Logan Kane (bass), Daniel Rossi (percussion), André Sacalxot (saxophone, flute), Gaspard Sicx (drums), and Chris Weisman (guitar, electric sitar).
The first single off the album is “As Above So Below,” a jazzy psychedelic, flutetastic number that is one of Feivel is Glaque most inviting songs to date. Says Zach: “This phrase comes from the Emerald Tablet, a 9th century hermetic text foundational for alchemy and later occultist movements; it refers to the reciprocality between heaven and earth, the knowable and unknowable, the here and the hereafter. Sounds heady, right? But as usual, the title came out of nowhere, gleaned from phonetic murmurings during the writing process, and Ma and I laughed a lot making this one… Normally we write linearly, improvising bit by bit using only piano and voice, but we ended up constructing As Above out of scattered song sections we’d recorded with my laptop mic in free software over a loop from a ‘70s drum sampling record, which drummer Gaspard Sicx and percussionist Daniel Rossi reinterpreted in the studio. After writing upwards of 35 songs over the course of a couple 2023 writing trips, we were surprised to knock out probably our most conventional tune yet. The lyrics could be said to both troll and co-sign typical pop lyricism. Thom Gill’s blazing guitar solo gets me every time… When [music video director] Joey Agresta asked what I was imagining visually, all I could muster was, “the Sound of Music, Ma spinning in a field, ‘90s ‘positivity,’ Dido…”
Watch the “As Above So Below” video below.
Rong Weiknes:
Hover
As Above So Below
Would You Rather?
Love Weapon
Rong Weickness
Toute Suite
It’s So Easy
I’m Scanning Things I Can’t See
Kayfabe
My Oubliette
Dark Dancing
Great Blues
Transparent
Eternal Irises
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