The Big Idea

The Big Idea – Tales of Crematie (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 01:08:33 minutes | 786 MB | Genre: Garage, Indie Rock, Psychedelic
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Room Records

If the genesis of The Big Idea was written both in the corridors of their high school and the surroundings of La Rochelle, the first chapter truly takes place in a big house in outskirts of Paris, where the six boys settled once they got their baccalaureate in 2015. Throughout these five years, The Big Idea hosted every European band playing in Paris with no landing place. The house of Champigny-sur-Marne, almost invisible in the monstrous metropolis, became a central location of the capital’s underground scene.

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The Big Idea – The Fabulous Expedition of Le Grand Vésigue (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 40:08 minutes | 444 MB | Genre: Indie Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Room Records

Because of course, the purpose of the operation was to record this album, The Fabulous Expedition of Le Grand Vésigue. Always in their funky progressive Californian vein of the Charentais pertuis, the Big Idea touch what, the unidentified musical object takes us on this improbable epic according to the winds and the waves.

« We did what we called interludes with ambient recordings during our stopovers in the Canary Islands and Cape Verde to really bring out the travel and adventure sidedetails Sacha. In Cape Verde, we had to stop for a short week and in the end we stayed ten days. It had been a long time since we had seen land and we met musicians who took us under their wings. Thanks to them, we had a great experience. »

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