Phil Reptil - Phil Reptil eponyme (2023)

Phil Reptil belongs to the brotherhood of musical storytellers. Eponymous is a poetic sequel to one of his many dreams. For the first time in his discography, Phil Reptil chooses not to use the extreme sound contrasts that are usually his signature. He unfolds his new stories continuously, in an atmosphere of tranquility and gentleness, a dreamlike journey built in thirteen stages, like a feature film, where his complicity with cinema and literature flourishes splendidly.

With Nosfell, the most singular experimental singer, he finds an ideal partner to express his daydreams in 2 songs - Goe and Guru - with strong pop accents. Macdara Smith, troublemaker narrator already heard at his side with Zarboth, distills his torn poetry in the very electro and very cinematographic Ayana and the poignant chant of A Life of Suffering.

With Simon Goubert, Claude Tchamitchian and Sophia Domancich, he immerses himself for the first time and at the highest level in the dazzle of interplay and passes very naturally with them from Free Rock to Free Jazz without ever losing the thread of his story, in Profondo Rosso and Kuun Laulu.

Like a Bill Frisell, his multicolored guitars also know how to play with silence and space. Eponym allows you to hear a very wide acoustic and electric palette in small or long solo pieces - Walking Andy Suite, What is Love, Cherubino. Étienne Gaillochet, accomplice drummer of all the adventures and Carole Agostini, delicate interlocutor in the opening duo.

Very inspired by the Kwakiutl Indians and their potlatch art, Phil Reptil invites us here to a party where a thousand little sonic riches are generously distributed to the listener.