FESTEN

Festen – Replicant: Musical Odyssey (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 51:05 minutes | 527 MB | Genre: Jazz, Jazz Rock, Fusion
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Laborie Jazz

Festen is a Parisian alternative jazz band that has been around for 10 years now.

Passionate about film music, the four musicians have developed their own language over the years: a minimalist music carried by a high energy inspired by 90’s rock.

The band has five albums to its credit, all of which have the theme of cinema. After the success of their “Inside Stanley Kubrick” released in 2018, Festen presents “Replicant” inspired by the synthetic and dark universe of Blade Runner. Replicant, Festen’s new album, a musical spin-off of Ridley Scott’s film Blade Runner, opens with the monologue of Roy Batty, a charismatic and tortured character. He recounts his long journey and his quest for truth, his journey along Orion’s shoulder to the door of Tannhäuser. A hard-hitting odyssey which, as the songs progress, transports the listener into a decadent instrumental universe which questions humanity.

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FESTEN – Inside Stanley Kubrick (2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 42:33 minutes | 459 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Laborie Jazz

Cinematic Jazz: Festen’s new jazz album, “Inside Stanley Kubrick”: With the signature of the Festen group on Laborie Jazz, it is also other ideas, other reflections that stimulate our collaboration. I am a lonely hotel in the middle of the mountains, a never ending zoom shot, an alienated writer in a frozen labyrinth. I am a venetian mask, a forbidden fantasy, a piece of a dream. I am a group of droogies, sadistic and fearless, a young lord right out of a Hogarth painting, an obese recruit armed with a rifle.

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