De Volanges

about AATT
& Missing

The basic idea was to come up with a cover of a recent song (in their « americana » style as we would call it), but play it in their early style. So we delved into « Angelfish », which happens to be one of our favourite albums. « Missing » stood out in the end for various reasons: a very open structure, the obsessive nature of the rythm, peculiar lyrics and the impression it leaves behind of a journey, making this piece akin to many last songs of AATT albums: a sort of opening towards
new, untrodden spaces.

What we did was simply indulge ourselves in hours of improvisation around the main themes of the song and around the unshakeable bass guitar line ... quite spontaneously, words from other songs emerged and stuck, reflecting a kind of flashback to the band..'s origins. So we ended up with something closer to an overall tribute to the magnificient music of the Trees, rather than strictly speaking a cover of a specific song.

What you get as a result is therefore a rather free and personal vision of ours, 
which we hope remains respectful to the original song ...