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Release Date
21 June 2024
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Length
7 tracks
Les Chants de l'Aurore (/le ʃɑ̃ də lɔʀɔʀ/, French for "The Songs of Dawn") is the seventh studio album by Alcest, released on June 21, 2024, by Nuclear Blast Records. The cover artwork is an oil painting re-interpreting Sydney Long's Art Nouveau piece The Spirit of the Plains.
The album was announced on 22 February 2024 via the band's social media (Facebook, Instagram) along with its tracklist.
The album was recorded in Fillières, Bagnols-sur-Cèze, Cavillargues, Toulouse (France), Grindavík (Iceland), and Gothenburg (Sweden). It was mixed in Dublin (Ireland), and mastered in Helsinki (Finland).
Line-up
- Neige — vocals, guitars, bass, synths, piano, glockenspiel, lyrics,* songwriting, arrangements
- Winterhalter — drums, percussion, sound engineering
Session
- Gísli Gunnarsson — arrangements, additional vocals
- Gregory Hoepffner — arrangements
- Élise Aranguren — additional vocals
- Haruna Nakaie — additional vocals, viola de gamba, Japanese spoken words
- France Lafumat — additional vocals
- Margot Gentil — additional vocals
- Sacha Gentil — additional vocals
Staff
- Alcest — recording, mixing
- Chris Edrich — mixing
- Mika Jussila — mastering
- Yoann Lossel — cover artwork
- Førtifem — layout
- Andy Julia — landscape pictures
- Ai Matsui — Japanese translation of « L'Enfant de la lune »
*Except for L'Adieu, by Guillaume Apollinaire.
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