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01. PHILIPPE HALLAIS - Theme (Trophies)
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02. PHILIPPE HALLAIS - Ready (Sacred)
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ARTIST
HALLAIS, PHILIPPE
TITLE
An American Hero
FORMAT
CD
LABEL
MODERN LOVE
CATALOG #
LOVE 106CD
LOVE 106CD
GENRE
ELECTRONIC
RELEASE DATE
7/14/2017
Philippe Hallais
returns to Modern Love with
An American Hero
, the first album under his own name. It follows his label debut as
Low Jack
with
Lighthouse Stories
in early 2016 (LOVE 102LP).
An American Hero
is by some distance his most important work to date, setting aside the squashed dancefloor productions of his Low Jack alias for an album of emotive, indefinable ambient pieces. After working through different subcultural musical languages as Low Jack, with
An American Hero
, Philippe takes inspiration from the TV biopics of high-performance athletes for an album of exceptional emotive impact; somewhere between pastiche, tragedy, and electronic futurism. Fascinated by the sports documentaries mass-produced by the US TV channel ESPN, Hallais transcribed and amplified its dramatic recipes. These form the material of tearful soap operas which develop the same narrative ad nauseam; the rise to the top, the betrayal, decline, salvation, comeback, and ultimately, nostalgia and regret. The TV formatting reduces the life of these high-level athletes to a generic tale, transforming them into impersonators of their own lives through extreme use of editing, slow motion, and musical themes. Acting as a Greek tragedy,
An American Hero
delves into the dislocations of the mythology of sports and its achievement in mass entertainment; whereby the hero becomes a dispensable and mimetic body. Hallais delves into this unusual portrayal of triviality and disaster, naivety and cynicism that make the real life and ordeals of the hero indistinguishable from their scripted form on TV. This obsession with storytelling and the creation of bigger-than-life characters forms the narrative of
An American Hero
, a parable for our times. RIYL:
James Ferraro
,
Yves Tumor
,
Hype Williams
,
My Bloody Valentine
,
Leyland Kirby
. Artwork and photography by
Ethan Assouline
; Mastered and cut by
Matt Colton
.
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