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Plage Arrière

by Roméo Poirier

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  • Ltd edition tape
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    Pro-dubbed tape and riso printed artwork.

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  • Limited Edition Vinyl LP
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    After repeated demands, we have pressed Roméo Poirier's Plage Arrière to vinyl for the first time. This edition is released in collaboration with our friends SWIMS. Mastered by Sam Annand, artwork by Rich Greenan and Roméo Poirier.

    Includes unlimited streaming of Plage Arrière via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
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  • Test pressing
    Record/Vinyl + Digital Album

    Test pressing of Plage Arrière, mastered by Sam Annand and pressed in Germany by Optimal. Minimal artwork, same lush sonics.

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  • Custom art test pressing
    Record/Vinyl + Digital Album

    Test pressing of Plage Arrière with hand painted sleeve by Rich Greenan. Mastered by Sam Annand and pressed in Germany by Optimal. Edition of one.

    Includes unlimited streaming of Plage Arrière via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
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  • Ltd Edition Sea Foam Green Vinyl
    Record/Vinyl + Digital Album

    Sought after repress of this much loved LP, in inviting sea foam green.

    Includes unlimited streaming of Plage Arrière via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
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  • Plage Arrière 2024 edition.
    Record/Vinyl + Digital Album

    A much needed repress of French ambient composer and former lifeguard Roméo Poirier's cult debut record, Plage Arrière. Released with updated artwork, by London imprint Kit Records.

    Plage Arrière is a deep sea meditation on a constellation of Greek beaches across three islands. Trumpets, echo-clicks and Harold Budd-esque shimmer piano whirl together on these sand-caked missives, tumbled and re-engineered by their surroundings like seaglass. Poirier evokes the sub-aqeaous ambitions of Jürgen Müller, or Jan Jelinek inspecting a coral reef.

    Limited to 300 copies.

    Includes unlimited streaming of Plage Arrière via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
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Prioni 03:18
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Apella 05:16
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Atsipades 03:59
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Firiplaka 02:57
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Avlaki 03:18
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Kyra Panagia 04:17
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Alogomandra 03:38
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Sarakiniko 04:51
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about

French lifeguard and sonic artist Roméo Poirier’s long sold out debut tape finally gets a vinyl reissue. Plage Arrière is a deep sea meditation on a constellation of Greek beaches across three islands. Trumpets, echo-clicks and Harold Budd-esque shimmer piano whirl together on these sand-caked missives, tumbled and re-engineered by their surroundings like seaglass. Plage evokes the sub-aqeaous ambitions of Jürgen Müller, or Jan Jelinek inspecting a coral reef.

The album has been remastered for vinyl by Sam Annand of Esk. Building on its original artwork, the vinyl edition features new photography by Roméo himself. Released alongside our friends SWIMS.

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'necessary vinyl edition of a much-adored tape release, likely to charm the pants off Jan Jelinek and To Rococo Rot fans with an intoxicatingly heat-hazy ambient collage inspired by Aegean sojourns' - Boomkat

'a future classic, no doubt' - All Night Flight Records

'a constantly compelling record' - Norman Records

'blissful and soothing, it’s a treat for the ears' - Bandcloud

'absolutely enchanting' - Beach Sloth

'the only cassette I'll play in the car ... it's beautiful and will guide us through the night' - Robert Lippok

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released December 9, 2016

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Roméo Poirier Brussels, Belgium

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