WOELV gris 10"

"Everything was recorded very late into the night as I was working on a large drawing project. I was preoccupied with what the radio announced every day. "Gris" dropped in just like an accident, because I felt the urgent need to make something and finish it... because some of our efforts come from frustration." WOELV – the musical countenance of Geneviève Castrée – is, in her own words, an addition to and completion of a lot more exhausting comic work. Accompanied by guitar, drums and harmonium, she plays her own compositions, namely those tender dreamy songs recorded on her 2004 Pamplemoussi album, as well as this year's single Gris. She sings in Québéçois French with a very strange accent, which sounds unusual even to the natives of her hometown Québec. The reason behind this may be that WOELV understands her maiden voice as an instrument that shifts from the semantics of language and willingly succumbs to the intensive feeling of the music and lyrics. She says that these songs ''should speak of peace and justice. I believe that the only positive thing about conflict – any conflict – is its end… '' elvrum & sun records