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Sleeper Hits : Tropical Abstractions

by Nicolas Nadar

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1.
What Doesn't Kill You 04:07
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2.
Howler 02:00
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3.
Contains Spoilers 03:49
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4.
Muteeny 03:43
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5.
Figures of Sand 07:48
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6.
Kaplan Redux 03:37
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7.
Ghost Workers 03:29
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8.
Outremer 01:52
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9.
Seeders & Leechers 04:58
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10.
Palm Wine 03:03
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11.
Night of the Lost Explorers 11:59
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In another life, when he was still known as Fauve, Swiss songwriter Nicolas Julliard already had movies at the back of his mind. Haunted by the evocative climates of the film-music composers he loves (Bernard Herrmann, François de Roubaix, John Barry, Michel Magne, Ennio Morricone, ...), his songs have always featured dramatic impulses and evocative atmospheres, not unlike a soundtrack in search of images.
No wonder then that filmmakers have come to him. Under the name of Nicolas Nadar, he has been producing a series of soundtracks for fiction and documentary films since 2016, as well as a stage score for harpist and actress Manon Pierrehumbert. Above all, he crossed paths with Radu ZERO, a painter, filmmaker and music lover whom he had met nearly 20 years earlier.
The desire for a shared project quickly emerged, the idea of working together on a hybrid material, a series of films and pop titles inspired by a common theme: the tropical world, a fragile and abundant universe, a point of balance threatened by the mortifying mutations of our feverish world.
Contaminated by Radu ZERO's images, the music of Sleeper Hits : Tropical Abstractions is an exploration of the frontier between song and cinematographic art: evocative climates, play on sound layers and editing, dramaturgy of the development of the tracks, elastic durations, the processes inspired by cinema build around the melody, the voice and the text a complex universe, teeming with life, in constant change.
In 11 tracks with varied flavors, the songwriter explores in his own enigmatic way some of the key themes of our time, from global warming to computer hacking, from digital slavery to extractivist predation. Borrowed from the world of cinema, the expression "Sleeper Hits" refers to those films with unexpected success, built up in an underground and patient way. A nice way to describe Nicolas Nadar's songs, both confusing, mysterious and yet singularly hospitable... with or without images.

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released June 25, 2021

All songs written, performed, recorded and mixed by Nicolas Nadar.
Mastered by Alex Gordon at Abbey Road Studios, London.
Cover art by Radu ZERO.

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