Nicolas Comment - Blason"Blason", Nicolas Comment's third solo album, is a memory game: a game of clues and coats of arms. In the form of Chinese portraits of artists' lives, the 11 songs on this album are a tribute to hidden muses and secret pygmalions. The artist (singer songwriter as well as photographer and writer) is surrounded by France's best rock band, The Limianas, as well as dreamy backing singers Californian Brisa Roch and her double, Parisian Milo McMullen who

whether in the early days of their first works

His move from bustling Kyoto to the tranquil rural town of Onomichi in Hiroshima wasn't just a change of location but a profound shift in his life

These recordings were made in site but are neither traditional field recordings nor regular studio products

He broke onto the scene in 2008 and has been causing an uproar ever since

He wrote several thousand sketches

Blake Richardson

once The Rolling Stones throw in the towel) as a band that has survived with the same line-up for 38 years

a suburb of Los Angeles

so they stash it in the baggage claim at Union Station

in a less well-known later version with a slightly different text and with flutes replacing the oboes of the original

Though first performed at the end of the 1730s - between the two tragédies of Castor et Pollux and Dardanus - this work has received much less modern recognition for it's qualities than either of the other two

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