French Horn Rebellion

danach Trash’D – it’s indie, darlin‘ DJ’s ERV & NILS

SET THE CONTROLS FOR THE
HEART OF THE… HOLY HELL
WHAT IS THAT????

OK, we were on the dance floor a second ago, now we are in SPACE
and SOME OF US ARE NAKED! Some of us are UPSIDE DOWN
and naked, which is not a good look for us! What’s going on? What
in the name of all that’s decent and right is going on? Wah! I’m a
giant baby looking at the earth like in that flick! Wahhh!

OK, calm down. French Horn Rebellion is going on is what’s going
on.

A few moments ago, you made the decision to listen to ‘The Infinite
Music of French Horn Rebellion’. You took the red pill. In doing so
you quite innocently agreed to venture into the unknown with
brothers Robert and David Perlick-Molinari and their gleaming French
Horn, and now you have to live with that decision. By the way, I’m
sorry I had to slap you there.

So. You took the red pill, and may God have mercy on your soul.
May God have mercy on all our souls.

Who’d a thunk these two unassuming brothers from Milwaukee,
Wisconsin, who have only released two singles since 2009, yet have
been tipped by everyone from NME, MixMag, and Artrocker to The
Guardian, Time Out and French music bible Les Inrockuptibles, could
have brought us out this far? Yes, they’ve had a Record of the Week
on BBC Radio 1. Of course, an opening slot on the influential Kitsuné
Maison compilation series is a big deal. And You know what it
means a live performance at Jean-Charles de Castelbajac’s Paris
fashion week catwalk show. (It means they, at the very least, saw
some hot models).

But still, you weren’t prepared for this! You didn’t know you were
getting into this!

Another mystery: How have they found the time to do this to us? Live
shows on both sides of the Atlantic alongside Hot Chip, Leftfield,
Sleigh Bells, The Drums, Cut Copy and SebastiAn (to name a few)
gives you some idea of the last 12 months in the lives of Robert and
David. And yet they still found time to go into the studio and create
this glitterball-shaped starship.

Initially forced to take up the French horn at 8 years old, Robert
developed an affinity for the instrument when he discovered that it
was actually awesome. He went on to earn a degree in French horn
performance at Northwestern University (in Evanston, IL) and
became an associate member of the Chicago civic orchestra.
However, as his classical career progressed, so did his
dissatisfaction with it; awesome though it is, The French Horn cannot
do everything. And Robert wanted to do everything.

With this new sense of musical purpose, French Horn Rebellion was
born, and Robert turned to his producer brother David.

David was coming to his own creative crossroads. As a budding
music producer in New York, he was frustrated with clients who spent
too much time wondering about what people could ‘take’—that is,
until he produced MGMT’s indie release, ‘Time to Pretend EP.’ “They
(MGMT) would never pander to people’s expectations; instead they
were always playing with them. It inspired me to follow my nose a bit
more.” David immediately recognized a shared desire in Robert with
French Horn Rebellion, and so their partnership began.

‘The Infinite Music of French Horn Rebellion’, released this
November, is the result of this fated collaboration. There is a story to
the album. The story has a hero and it takes you to places, some of
which you have heard of and all of which you know. There are
encounters and there are decisions and there is reflection and there
is enlightenment. “It’s about the Universe. We’re pretty clear on what
the story is, but what you take away from it may be entirely different,”
says David. Whatever the hell else it is, the album is quite clearly a
vibrant and adventurous collection of songs, and you are upside
down in space.

Wahhh! WAHHHHHHH!

That is French Horn Rebellion is what
that is!