CKRAFT: French crew melds metal, jazz, and Gregorian chants on new single "Misconstruction of the Universe"; official music video streaming now
From Paris, France, CKRAFT presents "Misconstruction of the Universe," the third single from its forthcoming sophomore album, Uncommon Grounds.
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Wielding synth-accordion, saxophone, guitar, bass, and drums, CKRAFT melds metal, jazz, and medieval music into new shapes. Repurposing melodies from Gregorian chants of the Middle Ages, the quintet blazes through instrumentals that evoke a magical new space between Gojira and John Coltrane.
Decibel Magazine describes the band's compositions as "expansive and otherworldly" and gives this report: "With members hailing from various outposts of the musical universe, having a synth-accordion and saxophone as featured instruments, and the members’ declared bond over polyrhythmic metal, Middle Age Gregorian chants and ancient architecture, CKRAFT formed in France a decade ago and blew convention out the window with their 2022 debut... Bridging the gap between djent’s chugging thunder and the scattershot melodic freedom of jazz, the band have returned with album number two, Uncommon Grounds."
A meditation on the ways in which humans make sense of the universe, from the ancient and religious, to the modern and scientific, the new single, "Misconstruction of the Universe," uses the Gregorian chant "Universi Qui Te Expectant" as its lead melody.
The official music video is a grand, cinematic clip, showing the band in action amidst two battling figures. Founder and synth-accordion player Charles Kieny states: “The location in which the band was filmed is an old airship hangar in Normandy. Originally built by the French navy during WWI, it was meant to shelter airships used to spot German submarines. The other location is a gigantic Art Deco-styled carpark, built in the 1930s in the French Alps city of Grenoble. The director, Juliette Ulrich, symbolized this concept of old beliefs vs. modern beliefs, by two characters, one with a plague mask and one with a gas mask. They’re fighting, each with their own weapon –– medieval vs. modern, mystic vs. rational, religious vs. scientific –– and they’re chasing something, we don’t know why, maybe some sort of truth. But in the end, when they finally reach the light, nothing remains of them."
Wielding synth-accordion, saxophone, guitar, bass, and drums, CKRAFT melds metal, jazz, and medieval music into new shapes. Repurposing melodies from Gregorian chants of the Middle Ages, the quintet blazes through instrumentals that evoke a magical new space between Gojira and John Coltrane.
Decibel Magazine describes the band's compositions as "expansive and otherworldly" and gives this report: "With members hailing from various outposts of the musical universe, having a synth-accordion and saxophone as featured instruments, and the members’ declared bond over polyrhythmic metal, Middle Age Gregorian chants and ancient architecture, CKRAFT formed in France a decade ago and blew convention out the window with their 2022 debut... Bridging the gap between djent’s chugging thunder and the scattershot melodic freedom of jazz, the band have returned with album number two, Uncommon Grounds."
A meditation on the ways in which humans make sense of the universe, from the ancient and religious, to the modern and scientific, the new single, "Misconstruction of the Universe," uses the Gregorian chant "Universi Qui Te Expectant" as its lead melody.
The official music video is a grand, cinematic clip, showing the band in action amidst two battling figures. Founder and synth-accordion player Charles Kieny states: “The location in which the band was filmed is an old airship hangar in Normandy. Originally built by the French navy during WWI, it was meant to shelter airships used to spot German submarines. The other location is a gigantic Art Deco-styled carpark, built in the 1930s in the French Alps city of Grenoble. The director, Juliette Ulrich, symbolized this concept of old beliefs vs. modern beliefs, by two characters, one with a plague mask and one with a gas mask. They’re fighting, each with their own weapon –– medieval vs. modern, mystic vs. rational, religious vs. scientific –– and they’re chasing something, we don’t know why, maybe some sort of truth. But in the end, when they finally reach the light, nothing remains of them."
