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.​.​.​Zizi Mortel​.​.​.

by The Scroll

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openthisdoor Hey Jason... I just purchased your cd... great package photo! Excellent tracks man...

Are you familiar with "FoOlish"... They play a l'Escalier among other places... Favorite track: Tunnel.
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1.
Tunnel 04:48
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2.
Spine-Tingling 04:45
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3.
Mouthful of Sand 04:20
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4.
Mortal Love 03:11
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5.
Kiss Me Before The Bad Stuff Comes 05:06
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6.
Horns Glowing Red 04:00
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7.
All That Encompasses Everything 05:07
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8.
Happy Agogo 04:20
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9.
Fake Ayahuasca Rumpy 04:34
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10.
Troubling You 04:45
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11.
You're Bad To Me Now Because You Were Good To Me Before? 04:17
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12.
I Would Have Done It For You 06:08
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13.
The Worst Year 03:41
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14.
The Tarring Of Diamonds, Glitter and Jewels 04:15
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15.
Storm Comin' 07:03
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16.
Lost Sanctuary Found 07:15
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about

These are my best songs of the last 2 years.
I wrote this album during the darkest period of my life. At first, I wanted to make a haunting album that was both beautiful and acoustic sounding. But as the year came to a close, I was caught in litigation and betrayal and my music ended up reflecting a bit of that.
Zizi Mortel is an album that I'm very proud of. It helped me get through a lot. Some tracks are very personal to me. I hope it'll give you all something to hold on to.

"(J Deeh's) voice is absolutely amazing, the melodies are good." - Son of Marketing

"This is a great album. Really Top-notch. An epic pop rock album!" - Graham Duff (Top album of 2020)

"There's a moving spirit here." - Various Small Flames

"(TRANSLATED FROM POLISH) If an artist announces an album he has worked on for for the last two years, in the darkest period of his life, and if one of the first songs he invokes the spirit of disco and forces even the most reluctant people to stomp out, then it's scary to think what music he is creating when he is in a good mood . But as the album plays, the more "Zizi Mortel" shows shades of darkness.
"Spine-Tinglin" - this is the title of one of the biggest dance floor hits of the passing year, although only a handful of people have heard about it ... which is roughly the same number as in 2020 could enter the dance floor without breaking the bans and restrictions. This extremely hit song (clearly referring to the American trends from the first half of the 70s) is a perfect lure - after listening to it, it is hard to refuse to check the remaining fifteen tracks on the nearly eighty-minute album and only then the magic begins.
J Deeh (The Scroll is his one-man project) proves several times more that he has a unique talent for writing catchy melodies, but the further he goes, the more often he uses unusual solutions, tries to make compositions weird, break the lively choruses with electronic noise or samples taken out of context. The best example is "The Tarring Of Diamonds, Glitter And Jewels", whose rhythm calls to dance and doesn't take no for an answer, and at the same time is sabotaged by noises that make you wonder if someone could really play something like that at a club party. There is no doubt, however, that it is precisely this duality, neat jumps from the extreme to the extreme and the lack of genre belonging to "Zizi Mortel".
You don't even have to guess where the Canadian producer draws his inspiration from - in the description of the album, he himself mentions a number of characters and bands that left their mark on it. The only thing left is to match the song to the person - in the calming, composed on the basis of a few single chords and subtle vocals, "Storm Comin '" you can hear echoes of Tori Amos's work; "Mouthful Of Sand" is a laureate for David Bowie (there are the most of them here anyway); moving, but not exceeding kitsch, "Kiss Me Before The Bad Stuff Comes" is reminiscent of Primal Scream; and in "The Tarring Of Diamonds, Glitter And Jewels" the fascinations of Pet Shop Boys echo. Each of these artists, moreover, shares the freedom to write light and pleasant melodies and to combine them with more demanding, abstract ideas.
The biggest surprise comes when you compare "Zizi Mortel" with other albums The Scroll, which have been recorded for fifteen years. Until now, it was primarily retro-electronics, sometimes under the sign of Jean-Michel Jarre, sometimes gravitating towards old school EBM, and in still other cases fitting into the peak moment of synthwave popularity. J Deeh has always had a talent for songwriting, but until now he seemed to be the man destined to deliver purely ludic experiences. A gloomy period in his private life, although it is not often heard on the new album, had to somehow ennoble his work, turned him into an artist with an amazing, unique vision, who probably will not conquer the world anymore, but there is a high probability that he will be able to do it with hearts: those people, who find "Zizi Mortel" in the depths of the internet." - Soundrive

"Devastatingly beautiful vocals." - Hard of Hearing Music

credits

released March 18, 2020

All songs written, produced, performed and recorded by J Deeh
Saxophone on tracks 10 & 16 by Katherine Paradis
Female vocals on tracks 4 & 7 by Vanilla Jean
Female vocals on track 10 by Marie- Soleil Dion
Female vocals on track 6 by Zouzouni
Thank you: Sonja Soft and Seal Samuel.

NO AUTOTUNE/OTOTUNE WAS USED FOR THE RECORDING.
Dedicated to Scott Walker, Neil Peart and Genesis P-Orridge.

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The Scroll Montréal, Québec

The Scroll is a Canadian neo-wave band, consisting of multi-instrumentalist J Deeh and his various collaborators.
While being extremely eclectic, The Scroll has been described as indie electronica, art rock, neo-folk, dance-rock, industrial, dream pop and shoegaze. ... more

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