EFFERVESCENCE SAYS : A compilation is often a miscellaneous gathering of unreleased tracks coming from nowhere and totally unrelated from one song to the other, like a 'tetris' built of blocks to become an ugly patchwork. These compilations come from the labels, trying to promote their catalogue and giving a rough overview of the artists in one song. We wanted to break the rules and give the opportunity to the artists invited by Effervescence to use this compilation as a playground. No artist was isolated, lost in the creation of his song, the idea was to collaborate with someone else's song (cover or remix) or making one song with 2,3,4... people from different bands and different worlds. From those experiences, we took out 74 minutes of songs and pieces, and it became obvious that one CD couldn't make the compilation understandable. So we divided and drew out of music two different paths, two different times. ‘Pain Perdu’ is an introspective stroll through the forest with voices, guitars, ukulele, keyboards and silence. Friends come together for covers as wide spread as THE PATRIOTIC SUNDAY's Michael Jackson cover, Marc Bolan by THEE, STRANDED HORSE or Kate Bush by THOMAS MERY. They also create spontaneously together MY NAME IS NOBODY and THE HEALTHY BOY, AUDIOPIXEL and DOMOTIC, PELFORTE and Patatipatata band.. ‘Pot Pourri’ could be a rush downtown across sidewalks and passing cars. Electronica contemplations (DOMOTIC, Midori HIRANO, BELIKOMI) and action (HONEY FOR PETZI), hip hop word playing (STUNTMAN5 + MOOT & LISP), tense string orchestras (THIS MELODRAMATIC SAUNA & MOTENAI) dance floor in a room (ERIC CASTEL), Tribal loops (PERCEVALMUSIC, OTARI & KING Of DENMARK) come together like a wonderful game plan, studied to a perfect equilibrium between defence and attack. The compilation was recorded just about anywhere by Miguel Constantino (who already engineered most of the Effervescence records) and mastered by DOMOTIC. The artwork was as collective as the music with Benjamin Nerot, Murmeltier Bar, Samuel Cochetel, Adelaide Gaudechoux, Xavier Mora and Julien Courquin all drawing and taking picture and putting them together. PAIN PERDU/POT POURRI are two French expressions that relate the gathering of different things that could result as something disgusting into one, whole and accomplished taste. In other words how much you can do with a little thought and imagination…