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French duo Arlt (Canadian-born vocalist Eloise Decazes and guitarist Florian "Sing Sing" Caschera) experimented with different genres of folk music on
La Langue (2010), from the
driving folk-rock of La Rouille to
troubadour-style elegies like Je Voudrais Etre Mariee via
demented singalongs like Lettre Morte.
Feu la Figure (2012) invested more in the surrealistic dimension
of their melodies with the
absurdist singalongs Le Pistolet and Rhinoceros,
the trotting blues of Une Sauterelle,
the dejected cabaret of Tu m'as Encore' Creve' un Cheval,
and the hypnotic seven-minute psych-rock jam Chien Mort mi Amor.
Deableries (2015), that featured
Dominique
"Mocke"
Depret of Holden
on second guitar, regressed towards a more intimate style, with the
the fragile Les Oiseaux Cassent and
the lunatic La Rhubarbe, and closes with
the noisy instrumental Piege a Loups 2.
Soleil Encule' (2019), with
Mocke
and several other guest musicians,
toys with
dissonant chamber music (Frere & Sur),
orgiastic free-jazz (L'Instant Meme, Le Ciel est Tarte),
and returns to the format of the
demented singalong for Les Commencements.
Turnetable (2022) contains
Oh Bagnole, which sounds like a cross between the
Art Bears and
a dissonant
Penguin Cafè Orchestra, and
the languid bossanova Le Village.
Thomas Bonvalet of L'Ocelle Mare rearranged some of their songs on on Arlt & Thomas Bonvalet (2014).
Eloise Decazes' music also appears in the soundtracks for Vladimir Mavounia-Kouka's short film La Femme a Cordes (2010) and for Marie Losier's film Taxidermisez-moi (2021).
A collaboration between Decazes and Canadian singer Eric Chenaux yielded the mini-album Eloise Decazes + Eric Chenaux (Okraina, 2012) and La Bride (Three:Four Records, 2017), in which they revise ancient folk ballads.
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