December 13 – DIY Rock Farmers The Inspector Cluzo Struggle For Agro-Ecology With Music, ‘Swallows’

We’re taking a slight change in route for Day 13 of the 2022 Important Creation Calendar. Our door opens on The Inspector Cluzo, a pair of farmers from the Gascony area in France, who’re additionally a long-established rock-blues duo, who started in 2008. Their newest single, ‘Swallows’, which is accompanied by a shocking aminated single, comes from their upcoming ninth studio album, ‘Horizon’, set for launch on January 27, 2023.

‘Swallows’ is the second single from ‘Horizons’, and may be streamed and downloaded here, and is launched on their self-run report label, F.thebassplayer Information. You’ll be able to watch the music video here.

Comprising Laurent on guitar and lead vocals, and Mathieu on drums, the pair met after they had been each finding out Physics in Mont de Marsan. They’ve launched 8 albums up to now, and are completely 100% self-financed, household primarily based and organised. They’re additionally 100% DIY.

The Inspector Cluzo have a repute for being one of many world’s most prolific touring bands, having performed greater than 1200 exhibits in 67 international locations. They’ve performed festivals similar to Fuji Rock pageant (Japan), Pentaport Pageant (South Korea), Lollapalooza (Brazil &Chile), Obtain (UK), Paléo Pageant (Switzerland), Oppikopi (South Africa), Blues Fest (Australia), Shaky Knees Fest (USA), Hell Fest (France). The Inspector Cluzo accomplished bought out USA help excursions with Clutch and Eels in 2019, in addition to a maiden US headline tour. In the summertime of 2022 The Inspector Cluzo performed extensively on prestigious levels throughout Europe, together with the broadly famend Hellfest Pageant, the place they gathered a crowd of fifty,000 followers.

Regardless of all that, the primary exercise of The Inspector Cluzo is farming. They’re natural skilled farmers, working a 15 hectare household farm known as “LOU CASSE” (“the oak” in Gascon language) in Gascony, producing natural wheat and natural corn with their very own free seeds.

No GMO, no hybrids seeds, no chemical compounds or pesticides are used. They belong to a brand new technology of farmers which are into an Agro-Ecologic system difficult and combating local weather change for the brand new generations.

The video for ‘Swallows’, drawn by Cecilia Pepper and animated by Maxime Cazaux, completely embodies the spirit of this observe. ‘Swallows’ is greater than a ballad, it brings to the frontline essential points all of us face, with rock magnificence, insufferable disappointment and profound anger. 

The Inspector Cluzo feedback:

“At Lou Casse natural farm, we’re lucky sufficient to see migratory birds similar to swallows constructing their nest within the previous barn. Pesticides used worldwide make it exhausting for swallows to search out meals as a result of bugs are being killed within the fields. Moreover, the proliferation of city zones prevents them to search out correct shelter to lift their younger. We will see them disappearing little by little. It’s ironic to know that using pesticides is claimed to “feed folks” – most meals on Earth is made utilizing chemical agriculture methods – whereas it destroys each little life round it.

We determined to put in writing a music in regards to the swallows not solely as a result of they’re so lovely spinning round within the sky or flying over our natural wheat and corn fields to gather bugs to feed their younger, but in addition to level out that farming is feasible with out destroying the world. Although it’ll be a protracted shot and a protracted struggle earlier than trendy society understands this.

At Lou Casse, we’ve been attempting out this agro-ecology system for greater than 10 years now and are so lucky to welcome swallows yearly… “

The band’s upcoming ninth album, ‘Horizon’, follows on from their critically acclaimed 2018 studio launch, ‘We The Folks Of The Soil’ and the stay album ‘Brothers In Beliefs – We The Folks Of The Soil Unplugged’, from 2020.

Recorded in three weeks, ‘Horizon’ was produced by Grammy Award winner Vance Powell, and is the deepest and truest album The Inspector Cluzo have written to this point. 

Each music shares and takes inspiration from actual life occasions and experiences. For instance, ‘Wolfs At The Door’, tells the story of the wrestle the 2 farmers skilled when standing up towards a duck manufacturing facility positioned in entrance of their farm and the struggle they needed to put up when confronted with a large fowl flu pandemic. ‘Saving The Geese‘ describes the civil disobedience towards the French State and the massive native agro-industries companies that needed to kill the band’s wholesome animals as “prevention”. ‘Shenanigans’ re-evokes the good occasions the band spent in Nashville with their pal Invoice Elder who run the Shenanigans bar and who put them up throughout all Nashville studio periods. ‘Rockophobia‘, however, is one in every of many surprises The Inspector Cluzo reserved for the followers. A enjoyable rock quantity, wherein the band wonders “what does rock imply at the moment?” it takes a mild poke at Iggy Pop – with the person himself deciding to characteristic on the observe.

‘Horizon’ Observe-Record:

1. Act Native Assume International
2. Wolf At The Door
3. Operating A Household Farm Is Extra Rock Than Taking part in Rock ‘n’ Roll
4. Shenaningans
5. The Outsider
6. Swallows – The place are The Swallows Gonna Construct Their Nest
7. Horizon
8. Rockphobia – feat. Iggy Pop
9. The Armchair Activist
10. 9 Billion Options
11. Saving The Geese
12. Swallows Again – When Will The Swallows Return

You could find out extra about The Inspector Cluzo and their music on-line on their official Website, YouTube, Facebook, Twitter, and Spotify.

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