FUTURE FACES – Memoria

FUTURE FACES – Memoria

Label: Icy Cold 

Formato: CD in 3-panel Digipak 

Data: Novembro 2024

MEMORIA is the second album from Swiss cold-wave project Future Faces. In a synthetic, restless musical universe, it questions temporality and the consequences of a past action on the present and future. With a more nuanced instrumentation than the two previous releases, MEMORIA invites the listener on a contrasting introspective journey, moving from desolate minimalist climates to epic build-ups. In order to move on from a conceptual world and engage the audience, the album has been written in the same way as when the quartet builds a concert set-list; respecting the breaks, climaxes and outlets of a scenic musical narrative.

The album is composed of 11 unique tracks, including two momentous collaborations; one with the Swiss artist Delia Meshlir, who gracefully brings a feminine dimension, representing an interpretative possibility that Future Faces' lyrical universe shares in this new album. The other
with Belgrado / Fatamorgana’s Patrycja Proniewska a strong personality with whom the group maintains fundamental relationships of aesthetics and unfaltering friendship.

In this record, vocals take center stage and guide the listener in occasionally lifting their head from the overly immersive experience, through the lyrical world of Alex Müller (also from H E X, Sunfast).
With his voice, he creates an intimate and benevolent path, ensuring the listener does not get lost in the coldness of the synthesisers and the pounding of the percussions. It is a glimmer in the dark and abyssal world of MEMORIA.

Although predominantly synthetic, the guitar, bass and percussions energise and bring us back to the concrete in which Future Faces has developed its roots. If REVOLT was raw and insurgent, EUPHORIA hypnotic and abstract, MEMORIA is significantly more profound and generous.

Future Faces is :
Alex Muller - Lead Vocals & Production
Matthieu Baumann - Drums, Percussions & Production
Ludovic Lacroix - Guitar
Delia Meshlir - Additional Vocals
Patrycja Proniewska - Additional Vocals 

Mixed & Produced by Vincent Hänggi & Future Faces at H E X HQ, Geneva, Switzerland
Mastered by Dan Sutter at EchoChamber, Zürich, Switzerland

Artwork by TWKS in Geneva.
Cover : Installation by Matt Baumann for Ensemble Vide. Picture by Alex Pugin

Unending gratitude to Vincent Hanggi, Alexandre Pugin, Julien Marty, Dan Sutter, Sara Goodman, Jean-Louis Martel, Patrycja Proniewska, Delia Meshlir, Ensemble Vide, our families and friends.

Tracks:

01 Ask the Grime

02 Neon Outlines

03 I Kiedys Ja

04 The weaker we are

05 Moments

06 Sun

07 Spectre

08 In between 

09 Tempest 

10 Ultraviolet

11 A Man forbid