Poems of Charles Baudelaire by Spleen XXX

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Spleen XXX was born in 2015 from the meeting of Stéphane G. (bass, guitar, music) and Isthmaël B. (vocals, photography and videos). The original duet is now trio for the lives with the integration of Hugo D. on the bass guitar….
Their passions for dark and alternative music take roots far back in times, they both played in many bands and released several records under different projects:
Isthmael sang in Love in cage, compose in Morphoex and Stéphane G. (founder of Mhönos) also play bass guitar in Rosa Crux and makes sigh his solo project N.K.R.T
Suinting the love relationship between the two musicians and their mystic hometown and fatal accomplice, Rouen, split city between a gothic and bourgeois right shore, and an industrial, poor and cosmopolitan left shore. Post punk music stands up against the weirdness of gregarious life, the discomfort of a painful existence. Against this anguish, only one way to conquer evil left : the “spleen”, idealistic alliance between semantics and music, inviting the listener to travel to a dreamlike world.
« Now comes the eve, when on its stem vibrates
Each flower, evaporating like a censer; » (Charles Baudelaire)
Spleen XXX offers with his first album “Poems of Charles Baudelaire” a posthumous tribute to “Spleen and ideal” to the “new thrill” that this explicitly erotic and provocative collection brings to literature.
At the crossroads of tradition and modernity, the music of Spleen XXX tracks beauty in evil and death.
The idea behind the Spleen XXX project was to use Charles Baudelaire’s english translations, incorporating cold wave and post-punk music into his poems … To imagine and rethink symbolism in contemporary rock imagery, to transcribe the fears of future by tribal, hypnotic and repetitive music.
Death in life will be the stones of Spleen XXX stations of cross, an union that mixes paganism, gloomy rock and dreamlike images …
The light will ending the winding path of the band’s musical quest …
The proeminent bass guitar will be the refuge and the fight of Spleen XXX …
The track “Spleen” was released in December 2016 on a digital German compilation on the Don Quichote label “..In a search of a pink Vol II”.
In May 2017, the song “The possessed” was released in double vinyl compilation which is entitled “Aleatory chaos” on the Spanish label Oraculorecords , limited to 300 copies and already sold-out …
The first album entitled “Poems of Charles Baudelaire” was released on LP in October 2017 on the Cherbourg label Meidosems Recordsand in CD on the Rostow am Don label Monos Dei,
The first concert of Spleen XXX took place on October 28, 2017 in Rouen then there was Cherbourg on Friday, December 15 … The next date will be Rennes …