Three years after his eponymous album, Thousand (aka Stéphane Milochevitch) come back with a music closest to the soul and distinctive French lyrics. "Le Tunnel Végétal", source of his inspiration, is a corridor of time, a place of materialization of the fantasy, treasured by Tarkovsky or Bioy Casares. An opus where crude images meet disarming frankness and caustic humor.
"Le Tunnel Végétal" contains meanders and loops from "whole-world songs" that lead the listener under different lights, at the moving border between dream and reality. Thousand revisits and deconstructs pop formats, offering addictive and mischievous compositions with structures sometimes extravagant. An album whose meaning is revealed over kaleidoscopic texts
and improvisational phase.
Thousand is Stéphane Milochevitch’s project. He has forged his musical, cultural and linguistic identity during his early teens in Texas. Drummer at the age of seven, he then dedicates himself to various instruments that he appropriates, teaching himself. A first album of raw folk in 2008 unveils an artist whose sincerity and authenticity seduce the critics and his peers. If his work expands to many plastic arts (drawings, designing record cover, posters, T-Shirts, ...), music remains Stéphane’s privileged way of expression. After an eponymous opus published in 2015, "Le Tunnel Végétal" is Thousand’s second album to be released by Talitres.
Since Thousand’s last album, "Le Tunnel Végétal" (Talitres, 2018), there’s no question about it: his texts, his compositions, his arrangements are part of our everyday life as much as they feed our imagination. By reconciling dreams and reality, poetry and lapidary texts, Thousand’s music aspires to seduce you, but also to make you think.
Coming back with a more assertive writing and an uninhibited production, Thousand’s third album [with Talitres] "Au Paradis" takes you on a journey that is both acidic and dreamlike, touching on the most intimate aspects of being human. A journey that everyone will find something of themselves in.
THOUSAND ‘Au Paradis’ | 1. Merle hagard – 2. Jeune femme à l’ibis – 3. Mon dernier voyage – 4. Le rêve du cheval* – 5. Vue du fond de l’aquarium – 6. Au paradis – 7. Le masque du fou* – 8. Aux enfants de Saturne – 9. Des fleurs dans un feu* – 10. Le bâton ivre
Written by Stéphane Milochevitch – Recorded by Yann Arnaud & Stéphane Milochevitch – Mixed by Yann Arnaud – Mastered by Chab
Emma Broughton : voice / Olivier Marguerit : bass, keyboards, percussions / Stéphane Milochevitch : voice, guitar, ckeyboard, percussions / Sylvain Joasson :drums, percussions / * Strings : Bryce Dessner (The National, Clogs).
"Milochevitch is known for his clever wordplay, and there is a lot of that on ‘Thousand’. Like some of the other acts on Talitres, there is a slight likeness to Matt Berninger and his band, and ’Song of Abdication’ in particular is an unlikely mix of the National and early Depeche Mode. ’The Wave’ is a groovy number, while ’Eden’ is fast and 80’s-influenced and for me the highlight of the album." Pennyblackmusic
"“Fuck all the haters”, sings Milochevitch on ‘The Sea The Mountain The Ghost’ but there are unlikely to be many of those after hearing this record. It’s a dark, alternative-pop album that simply sparkles with musical gems." Sounds XP
