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Chambre Noire

by FABRITIUS

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Body Part 2 04:06
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Memories and memes, I wanna be there when you come around Memories of dreams, I wanna cease the fire in my body for good I've said and done it all I've said and done it all for real and everybody knows… Lesson learned: a knife in my head Thank you for the time outside Looking for some late advice now Catch me falling into a blatant demise I've said and done it all I've said and done it all for real and everybody knows… Messing around with fear on fun yards Messing around off season, it's fine Metro noise beneath the night sky, the first and last time you would see us fly I've said and done it all I've said and done it all for real and everybody knows… Treason inhaled through a peace pipe The buzzing of a one-winged fly See the sleek men seek for reason Burning showers of urine for the wise I've said and done it all I've said and done it all for real and everybody knows…
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IWYR 04:08
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Male and female won't quite suffice, never has. Suck it up. It feels so light and oh so right It's no surprise Look straight into Eyes so round CD, LP won't ride the tide, take me home Carry me home Mute your phone I'm alright How are you? Second home Eyes so round
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Body Part 1 03:38
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about

For Berlin’s Jan Fabritius, the title of his latest album, CHAMBRE NOIRE – French for ‘Dark Room’ – is double-edged. On one hand, it’s a metaphor for his debilitating black moods after too many setbacks in too short of a time. On the other, it’s a direct reference to his favourite wine bar in Paris, where, over two years, he spent joyous hours and nights escalating his fascination for both natural wine and the French language alike. There’s darkness and then there’s darkness: Fabritius knows both well.

Fabritius had retreated to Paris in 2017 after managing Berlin’s renowned Calyx Mastering studios for five years - regular clients include Caribou, Moderat, Jóhann Jóhannsson and Richie Hawtin - and he subsequently enjoyed an intensely creative period in the French capital, releasing music under the name Colourful. Having returned to Berlin in 2019, however, to work for indie label City Slang – he describes it now as “like a second home and family” – he set out to release a new solo album. In order to avoid mixing business and pleasure too much, he also set up a new label, EBP, to release it.

According to Fabritius, “I tried my best to take something positive and valuable out of the Hades of emotions I found myself in, so CHAMBRE NOIRE isn’t an album that finds me wallowing in negativity. Instead it’s about hope and overcoming obstacles in life which at the time seem insurmountable. It’s about making peace with one’s own vulnerability.” As he sings on first single, ‘Everybody Knows’, an impressive, almost daunting picture of his inner struggle that he calls “a muted yelp for hope, and a concession to its absence on the brink of a breakup,” “Lesson learned - a knife in my head / Thank you for the time outside / Looking for some late advice now / Catch me falling into blatant demise.”

On the cryptic ‘IWYR’, too, he begins by announcing “I know that she’s the one” before taking us on an emotional journey through anxious verses and stunningly melodic refrains, peaking in an anti-guitar solo nodding to no-wave king Arto Lindsay. This isn’t a purely introspective record, however, with, for instance, Fabritius taking a powerful stand in the gender debate on Eyes So Round, a candid love letter – audaciously reminiscent of The Velvet Underground’s monumental ‘Pale Blue Eyes’ – by a songwriter who’s not afraid of picking up the baton from the greats: “Male and female won’t quite suffice / Never has / Suck it up.”

Nonetheless, as anyone investigating the album’s lyrics will detect, there’s no doubting that CHAMBRE NOIRE has been written with one person in mind. It is, Fabritius confesses, an album that emerged from “the gloomy space between hanging on to and letting go of the love of your life… or at least the person you perceived as the love of your life”. That it ends with ‘Exit The Void’, an instrumental meditation that radiates hope while honouring his recent journey, confirms the success of his therapeutic production process.

CHAMBRE NOIRE – EPB Records’ first release – was recorded and mixed by Francesco Donadello at his museum-like Vox-Ton studio in Berlin Weißensee, and mastered from tape by Bo Kondren at Calyx, to which Fabritius returned to cut the vinyl for this special release himself. The album’s vinyl artwork, designed by Stephane Argillet Stereovoid, is a unique piece of art, too, with its multitude of layers offering an interactive, self-referential medium of abstract poetry, both literally and visually. Manufactured on recycled vinyl, it comes without a shrink-wrap.

credits

released March 31, 2022

All songs written, composed and produced by Jan Fabritius
Recorded and mixed by Francesco Donadello at Vox-Ton
Recording Assistant & additional editing: Henrik Havelka
Mastered from tape by Bo Kondren at Calyx Mastering
Vinyl cut by Jan Fabritius at Calyx Mastering

Guitars, vocals, percussion and beat boxing by Jan Fabritius
Bass on all songs by Leonie Geisler, except double bass on “A Day in Paris“ by Justin Remfrey
Drums on all songs by Mika the Elephant, except drums on “Exit the Void“ by Jan Fabritius
Additional backing vocals by Leonie Geisler and Khanh Nguyen-Thanh

Artwork by Stephane Argillet Stereovoid

Special thanks to these fine people:
An-Hau Chang, Khanh Nguyen-Thanh, Stephan Maier, Mike Keller, Jan Dietrich, Sasha Rossman, Josh Negretto, Natascha Schönaich, Valentine Sinclair, Louis Gee

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