Oklou

Warm, beautiful productions that are the signature of the Oklou style appear throughout; pairing ambient sounds with minimal club rhythms, delicate synthesizer arpeggios and found sound samples.

The album’s title track, ‘choke enough’, is an embodiment of the project’s quest for meaning, of the need to be touched by anything; a grandiose epiphany or a passing quotidien moment. “It’s the first song of the project,” explains Mayniel. “I remember listening to it in my car in Los Angeles on one of those immense roads that goes around the city. I parked in a slightly dark corner, a sort of vacant lot, and the words came suddenly, like a surge. A need to tell my story of my pursuit of intense emotions.” This relationship with elusive, imperceptible, ephemeral emotions is the key to the album. It is a reflection on the subconscious and conscious demands of an artistic psychology, and on the demands of existing and creating in a brief and transient life.