2023-05-05 22:00:11
By asking, in June 2018, the DJ and producer Paul Seul, member of the techno collective Casual Gabberz, a remix ofOublietteone of the songs “gothic pop” which she was then composing solo, singer Mathilde Fernandez sparked the founding spark of a duo. Born from the confrontation of a rhythmic radicality and a vocal power formed in the lyrical art, Ascendant Vierge thus jostled the electro-pop Landerneau with first singles – Influencer (2019), do and redo (2019), Little soldier (2021) – whose frenzy was going viral beyond our borders. Two years of pandemic then brutally curbed this booming buzz.
Reopening of clubs and return to standing concerts have enabled the group to confirm, in 2022, the live potential of their chemistry at a myriad of festivals. Before releasing, finally, this April 28, a first album called A New chancewhose cover represents Paul Seul and Mathilde Fernandez as survivors of an aeronautical crash.
This “new chance” can be interpreted as the duo’s hoped-for rebound after the Covid clash. But it can also mean the one that the world is not sure of having when ecological catastrophes threaten. “We can see in it a global and planetary meaningconfirms Paul Seul (Orzoni for civil status), with peroxide blond hair, but this crash and this new chance can also be intimate. »
Fed up with rap
The plane, or what’s left of it, could also be the one that propels the music of Ascendant Virgo. A turbinant duo at the heart of the reactors, intoxicated by supersonic energy, at the risk of exploding in flight. The ten tracks of this first album thus trace a blurred boundary between fascinating adrenaline rushes with heady choruses and a – sometimes tense – hypertrophy of sounds and emotions.
The quest for thrills began early for the Parisian as for the Azurean, who grew up in La Trinité (Alpes-Maritimes). Paul Orzoni was fed up with rap, before discovering, barely a teenager, the intoxicating speed and the primitive strikes of gabber, a hard-core form of techno, born in the Netherlands in the 1990s. A time devalued as a party style for drugged down the forehead, the genre will be reassessed in the early 2010s thanks to young DJs mischievously playing its brutality. Among these, Paul Seul and his comrades from the Casual Gabberz collective (April, Boe Strummer, Von Bikrav, etc.) promoting this revival through sets, compilations and productions published by their own label. “At the beginning, we were sometimes forced to lie about the genre we played, so bad was the gabber press, especially in Paris”remembers the DJ, who maintained his hard-core techno flame by living for a few years in Belgium and the Netherlands.
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