N + GITANE DEMONE

Several years in the making, the debut of N + Gitane Demone has finally arrived. Despair, a sprawling, experimental opera with a libretto penned by Demone, is spread over an epic-length, bespoke 4-LP box limited to 100 sets featuring 10 tracks on 4 LPS featuring a 28-page booklet with the complete lyrics and illustrated with exclusive paintings by Zara Kand. Each set includes a postcard signed by N and Demone. Despair tells the story of an elderly man as he begins to slip into dementia, and whose sunny memories and hallucinations of his ancestors’ murderous past alternately propel him toward an inevitable and precipitous fate. Scored by German drone guitar alchemist N, whose long list of credits include the bands [MULTER] and O R T, using unique amplifier and guitar extended techniques, the drama pitches and ebbs in waves of textured, sonorous beauty. Despair enfolds the listener in an ocean of desolation that offers a uniquely introspective and resonant experience that is, by turns, as spectral as it is human — and totally unexpected, in defiance of operatic stereotypes.