{"id":16546,"date":"2012-01-01T15:27:53","date_gmt":"2012-01-01T15:27:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.desert-rock.com\/dr\/chrocd\/valis-champions-of-magic.html"},"modified":"2012-01-01T15:27:53","modified_gmt":"2012-01-01T15:27:53","slug":"valis-champions-of-magic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/desert-rock.com\/site\/valis-champions-of-magic.html","title":{"rendered":"Valis &#8211; Champions Of Magic"},"content":{"rendered":"<div align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/desert-rock.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/CHAMPIONSOFMAGIC.jpg\" alt=\"Valis - Champions Of Magic\" alt=\"\" width=\"205\" height=\"205\" border=\"0\" hspace=\"5\" vspace=\"5\" \/><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Pour quelle raison n&rsquo;ais-je jamais vraiment jet\u00e9 une oreille \u00e0 Valis, myst\u00e8re. Je sais pas, une aura \u00e9trange rattach\u00e9e \u00e0 un groupe que je pensais plus probable de trouver dans les colonnes un peu \u00ab\u00a0pr\u00e9tentieuses\u00a0\u00bb d&rsquo;un Elegy ou autre mag gothico-\u00e9litiste. Les a priori, hein, allez comprendre&#8230;<br \/>\nPeut-\u00eatre aussi le fait que l&rsquo;arri\u00e8re garde du grunge de Seattle se retrouve dans l&rsquo;ombre de ce groupe\/projet bien particulier, \u00e0 l&rsquo;image de son leader Von Conner, ancien Screaming Trees, qui embauche son frangin et d\u00e9bauche des ex (?) TAD ou Mudhoney. Que Valis, dans ces conditions, ne verse pas une seule seconde dans le grunge, m\u00eame de qualit\u00e9, est la premi\u00e8re surprise de cet album.<br \/>\nLa seconde c&rsquo;est bien la qualit\u00e9 des chansons, des compositions d&rsquo;une richesse remarquable, vari\u00e9es, originales. On va pas tous les citer non plus, mais on peut quand m\u00eame mentionner \u00ab\u00a0Universe\u00a0\u00bb avec ses lancinants licks de gratte et son riff impeccable, le tr\u00e8s \u00e9tonnant \u00ab\u00a0Pass me by\u00a0\u00bb, \u00e9hont\u00e9ment popisant, mais redoutablement efficace et honn\u00eate, \u00ab\u00a0Kill the ones you love\u00a0\u00bb avec son envol\u00e9e \u00e9pique \u00e0 la fin, groovy en diable, une v\u00e9ritable machine \u00e0 taper du pied.<br \/>\nMusicalement, c&rsquo;est du \u00ab\u00a0space stoner\u00a0\u00bb du meilleur aloi, un peu comme du Nebula-meets-Orange Goblin, sans les penchants doom. Ici tout est a\u00e9rien, la cymbale est \u00e0 la f\u00eate, les vocaux sont gav\u00e9s d&rsquo;effets (un peu trop, c&rsquo;est le seul point un peu faible de ce combo \u00e0 mon avis). La prod est impeccable, remplie d&rsquo;effets sonores tout \u00e0 fait ing\u00e9nieux et bienvenus, discrets mais efficaces (comme les gr\u00e9sillements \u00ab\u00a0spatiaux\u00a0\u00bb derri\u00e8re \u00ab\u00a0Kill the ones\u00a0\u00bb ou les maracas sur \u00ab\u00a0Love loader\u00a0\u00bb), et le son de guitare est quant \u00e0 lui impeccable, travaill\u00e9 au scalpel, un v\u00e9ritable travail d&rsquo;orf\u00e8vre du son.<br \/>\nChampions Of Magic est en r\u00e9alit\u00e9 originellement un EP sorti en 2005 blind\u00e9 par Small Stone de nouveaux morceaux (15 chansons quand m\u00eame !!), qui se r\u00e9v\u00e8le (en ce qui me concerne) \u00eatre un formidable pied \u00e0 l&rsquo;\u00e9trier pour d\u00e9couvrir cet excellent groupe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pour quelle raison n&rsquo;ais-je jamais vraiment jet\u00e9 une oreille \u00e0 Valis, myst\u00e8re. Je sais pas, une aura \u00e9trange rattach\u00e9e \u00e0 un groupe que je pensais plus probable de trouver dans les colonnes un peu \u00ab\u00a0pr\u00e9tentieuses\u00a0\u00bb d&rsquo;un Elegy ou autre mag gothico-\u00e9litiste. 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