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Tulipe

by Ryvage

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As the world slowed down during the lockdown in March, I was overwhelmed by this sense of urgency coupled with a latent claustrophobia... those feelings and the will to escape from them triggered new musical ideas in me. There's always been a lot of escapism in my music ... That's where the name Ryvage (from the French for shore) comes from.

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Wrote the track at the moment when I really started to realise that this whole situation was likely to last and could have long-term consequences on our societies... The basic idea and the melody came very quickly to me, instinctively, during a night session at my studio. I think I wanted to capture the clash between the imposed lockdown slowness and the feeling of sanitary urgency. For me, Tulipe is a soundtrack of a world that has gone off the rails... it’s dark, but not hopeless.

While listening to one of the mixes I knew instantly that it should be called Tulipe (in French). Later I remembered an article I had read about the Tulip Mania phenomenon (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tulip_mania), a period in the Dutch Golden Age in the 17th century during which prices for tulips reached stratospheric heights before dramatically collapsing and ruining huge parts of society. Those flowers had been infected by a virus which was causing very fashionable and unique colour effects on the petals, but also endangered the reproduction of the tulips, which led to the creation of a speculative bubble and an economic crisis, right at the time of a plague outbreak. Isn't it paradoxical and romantic that virus-infected tulips would drive men so crazy that they’d sell their possessions to acquire one of the coveted flowers?

Analogies with current-day strike me... a globalised world, massive wealth and hubris for some, collective hysteria, and a virus that came out of nowhere to cause a major crisis...

The track Tulipe was produced as part of a commission for the Schlofzemmerbleck project initiated by Radio 100.7 and is released via Believe on 21 August: fanlink.to/tulipe

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released August 21, 2020
Written and produced by Samuel Reinard
Mastered by Julien Brenier

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Ryvage Luxembourg

Ryvage (French pronunciation: (/riːˈvɑːʒ) meaning "shore") is an electronic musician from Luxembourg who blends synthwave and ambient techno in a hypnotic, multi-faceted live performance. His latest tracks from the “Les Nuits I” EP, have been remixed by artists such as Djedjotronic (Boysnoize Records), Madben and Etienne Jaumet (Zombie Zombie). ... more

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