Les Paradisiers

Les Paradisiers is a musical power-marriage between American underground musician, author, and film director Thomas Nöla (et Son Orchestre) and Barcelona-based Mediterranean-Neo-folk artist Demian Recio, aka Ô Paradis. The duo’s first aural offspring, More Tales From The Garden, was recently released on LP via Nola’s own Disques de Lapin imprint. The LP features a dozen dark, uneasy and psychedelic trips through Thomas and Demian’s exotic and anachronous universe, where humid locales not only house jungle birds and cats, but also early 20th Century European speakeasies hosting American Vaudeville and Spanish Cabaret acts with 1980’s Goth sensibilities. Tales’ atmosphere is helped along by the fact that it was birthed into one being in two very separate places - Demian’s parts were recorded in Barcelona and Thomas’s contributions were captured in Boston, MA. Therefore, the album is also a bilingual affair, split between American English and Peninsular Spanish. However, much like Ô Paradis’s collaborative efforts with the now-defunct Austrian neo-cabaret act Nový Svět, Nola and Demian are actually a logical pairing. Both artists are popular among fans of the Neofolk genre but neither of them carry or are weighted-down by any of the problematic dogma that exists within it. The pair’s main respective projects seem to strive to weave new surreal worlds out of the pieces and tatters of this one, rather then anchoring their songs in a particular part of real world history. Where many of their peers’ albums are academic in nature, Nola and Ô Paradis’s output is usually looser and takes itself less seriously. Les Paradisiers doesn’t stop this trend. Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.