On August 7th internationally, Antiq is proud to present Hanternoz's highly anticipated third album, A Hed an Noz, a Noz, a Noz.
This album presents you six songs in the form of six devils of the common Breton folklore: a fairy, a lavad (a night fairy very dangerous), a devil, a corpse, a sort of fiery elf, and the spirit of the woods. Each of the six monsters takes the shape of BOTH a historical fact and a childhood memory to haunt back the storyteller. Of course, all this takes shape at night; that's why songs bear the name of a night moment. Through this crazy night of non-sleep, the demons take many shapes: sadness, amusement, hope, dispair, depression, joy, anger, and so on.
The album cover represents the one character that is never quoted but omnipresent here: an Ankou. Ankou is a scythe-living dead, representing Death itself. Ankou is interesting because the root of the word is Anken (fear) and rooted in German languag : Angst, Anguish, Angoisse. In fact, Ankou is the fear of Death itself and Death at the same time. On the cover art, you may want to watch the man guiding Ankou: a man whose regrets are especially live. This is why he is doomed into a non-life / non-death experience: leading the cart of Ankou. The weather represents a sunset, as they are scarce in Bretagne, but as can sometimes with luck be seen. As the sun is going down, the light of the carriage of the dead goes lit and the poor doomed man leads the ross and the Ankou onto the path to dying men. But as every battle should carry a tiny light of hope, there is in the background a warm house, with an oak and a swing.
Antiq is a label dedicated to the fully coherent concept of making music through sound, image, video, and attitude. They have been putting their entire existence into it since 2009. Over the years, Antiq have been identified as producers of not only perfectly coherent lyrics and themes through music, but also conceptual art and, of course, the manufacturing of beautiful objects. The label tries as much as it can to work with French creators, and if possible, with the smallest and most serious structures.
In the meantime, hear the brand-new track "Jean-du-Feu"
HERE at Antiq's official YouTube channel. Cover and tracklisting are as follows:
Tracklisting for Hanternoz's A Hed an Noz, a Noz, a Noz
1. Sur le Chemin des fees [11:40]
2. La Lessive des Trépassés [5:47]
3. Le Diable de Quimper-Corentin [7:50]
4. La Peste à Limoges [10:54]
5. Pe trouz War an Douar [3:34]
6. Jean-du-Feu [8:39]
7. Quand j'ai tué le Roi de la Forêt [8:10]
