Yan Lohendra is above all a musician and a composer, but he wrote almost all the lyrics of the songs on his last album, and is therefore also an author.
Yan Lohendra’s music is gently atonal, but includes melodies that hover above it. It can be classified in experimental pop.
His new album consists only of songs, unlike the previous ones which were instrumental. They are sung by Tashaa, a virtual singer.
Tashaa is also Taalhia, her dark side, like Doctor Jekyll and Mister Hide, whose voice differs and turns out to be very original. As such, she is the only virtual singer who smokes too much and drinks too much alcohol. and you can hear it when she sings.
Only “The Litanies to Satan” was not written by him and is due to Charles Baudelaire, a translation of the famous poem “Les litanies de Satan”, from the collection “Les fleurs du mal”.
This album, Weirder Words, as its title suggests, deals with strange things, such as a pact with the devil or the hollow Earth, or even serial killers, in particular in a song inspired by the film “C’est arrivé près de chez vous” (Man Bites Dog or It Happened in Your Neighborhood). There are also aspects of spirituality.
