QUINQUIS – Gwenno’s remix of ‘Morwreg’ out now – UK tour underway – eor album out now on Mute
QUINQUIS
BRETON PRODUCER ÉMILIE QUINQUIS – ON TOUR NOW WITH GWENNO
LISTEN TO GWENNO’S NEW REMIX OF ‘MORWREG’
LATEST ALBUM – EOR – OUT NOW ON MUTE
[QUINQUIS & Gwenno, credit Luca Bailey]
QUINQUIS LIVE – SUPPORTING GWENNO
3 Nov – Leeds, Belgrave Music Hall
4 Nov – Glasgow, Nice n Sleazy
7 Nov – Bethesda, Neuadd Ogwen
8 Nov – Blackpool, Bootleg Social
9 Nov – Birmingham, The Castle & Falcon
11 Nov – Cardiff, New Theatre
14 Nov – Brighton, St Luke’s
15 Nov – Falmouth, Princess Pavilion
Breton producer QUINQUIS (aka Émilie Quinquis) – currently on tour with Gwenno across the UK – has shared the Welsh-Cornish artist’s remix of ‘Morwreg’ from Émilie’s new album, eor, out now on Mute.
Listen to Gwenno’s remix HERE
The two artists met when they interviewed one another earlier this year, talking extensively about their preserving their cultural identities through their art. Both QUINQUIS & Gwenno sing in their native tongues – the Celtic languages of Breton, Cornish and Welsh – and Emilie’s latest album, eor, includes tracks sung in Welsh (with Cerys Hafana) and in Zulu (with Desire Marea). Stay tuned for a QUINQUIS mix of a Gwenno track from her new album Utopia (out now on Heavenly Recordings).
Talking about the remix, Émilie says, “Gwenno’s remix is the remembrance of a long night, recollecting the pieces of a relationship that has broken down on the floor, while the sun is coming up. It keeps asking “what do you keep from me when your boat is leaving?”, just as the obsession for a lost love would run in circles into your mind.”
This new remix is the first to be release from QUINQUIS’ forthcoming remix EP, out on 10 December via Mute.
eor weaves together tales of mermaids, inspired by time Émilie spent sailing from her home island of Ushant to faraway places. The album features ‘Dec’h’, with its fabulous accompanying video directed by Vanessa Le Reste, a peek into what happened when a troupe of neon clad drag artists arrive on the island and transform one of its inhabitants, as well as ‘Inkanuko’ (featuring labelmate Desire Marea, in what must surely be the first track to feature both Zulu and Breton languages), Blaz an holen (feat. Cerys Hafana)
and the original version of ‘Morwreg’.
Émilie lives on Ushant Island, a landmass of six square miles off the coast of Brittany. Having learnt to sail solo three years ago – a necessary act, she felt, to get home to the island and leave again on her terms – she kept going. She crossed the Irish Sea, circled the Scottish islands and Faroes, experienced the vulnerability and power of living in the elements. She kept imagining what could be in the waves around her, what visceral figures could have been forgotten by folklore, and how – with her instruments in tow – she could help bring these mermaid presences to the surface, hold them up for air.
The result is an album in which music provides succour among the shudders and swells. It shows QUINQUIS as an exceptional producer, and an extraordinary singer, musician and songwriter, creating tracks which ripple and flow, that torrent and break, full of propulsive visions and startling stories of the sea.
eor is out now on vinyl, CD and digitally via Mute
Listen to / buy the album HERE
eor – tracklisting (cat # STUMM515)
Inkanuko (feat. Desire Marea)
The tumbling point
Blaz an holen (feat. Cerys Hafana)
Distro
Dec’h
Dec’h
Peñseidi
Aet on
eor was produced by Émilie Quinquis & Gareth Jones. The album was mixed by Gareth Jones at Strongroom, London, recorded on Ushant Island by Émilie Quinquis, and mastered by Alex Wharton at Abbey Road.
EDITORS NOTES
Pronunciations:
Dec’h – “Der”
Inkanuko – “In-ka-noo-ko”
Morwreg – “Mor-vreek”
QUINQUIS – “kan-kees”
FURTHER LISTENING / WATCHING
Listen to / buy SEIM
Listen to / buy aer EP
‘Setu’ official video
‘Adkrog’ official video
‘Run’ official video
‘Morwreg’ Live at Trans Musicales
RECENT PRAISE FOR SEIM
“… beautiful and beguiling collection of songs” – Electronic Sound
“… ethereal, sometimes casually ominous songs… amid flickering synth flourishes” – Uncut
“the kind of … album that deserves to grow into a cult hit” – Higher Plain
“Matching luminous electronics to drifting sonic textures, [opening track] ‘Adkrog’ revolves around a digital pulse, encouraging us to view it from several different angles” – CLASH
CMU Approved