Enki BILAL • Double vinyl "INONU" Art collector + numbered, signed pigment print
«Enki BILAL • Double vinyl "INONU" Art collector + numbered, signed pigment print»
Illustrateur : Enki BilalDescription : double vinyl
Cover and interior: Enki Bilal Illustrations
Art collector
Included: 1 pigment print
Numbered, signed by Enki Bilal
+ tracing paper
Edition limited to 99 copies (number on the pigment print and on the back of the vinyl)
Collab Rotorelief / Galerie Collin
Extract to listen to on https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5eTGRojL1WE
INONU is the latest collaboration between the three founding members of the industrial group Urbain Autopsy, originally released in 1988, in a box containing two K7 C40s, a booklet and a leaflet on the defunct Tears Compilations label.
INONU is a concept album divided into four acts, themselves divided into stages. This is a story where there is no dead time between each scene. The pieces follow one another as in life. INONU has a beginning and an end. You can't listen to one part and ignore the others, it's as if you only want to read one
chapter of a book or watch only one scene from a play. This is the group's most successful project.
INONU tells a slice of history of the life of an imaginary totalitarian country, which could make think of a former country of the East, who knows?. Note
that INONU was published a year just before the collapse of the communist bloc... We can also bring together the architecture, constructivist art and industrial music of URBAN AUTOPSY and see the osmosis that emanates from it. Some names have been
picked at random from an encyclopedia. Their realities have no relation to the fiction transmitted in INONU.
The story that begins is known...
ACT 1: It narrates the life of a country dominated by a dictator, with the recurring leitmotiv "of an iron fist" and that of an oppressed people.
ACT 2: Two revolutionaries form a coalition to eliminate the dictator and resume the reconstruction of the country.
ACT 3: One of the two revolutionaries with more desire for a single power eliminates his friend and takes over the reins of the country by force.
ACT 4: And it is again the phrase of the "snake biting its tail" that comes back, over time he becomes a new dictator with the same problems from the beginning.
The imaginary and the factual collide in OUR PRESENT. This musical concept generates a futuristic collaboration between the musicians, the illustrator and
the publisher through this double album.
What a visionary look the URBAN AUTOPSY group had in 1988 when conceptualizing a fictional reality, a year before the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, the breakup of the USSR in 1991, the Balkan wars of the 1990s, these transforming states into myriad micro-states, often involving a rise in authoritarianism. So today in this year 2022 this incomprehensible or programmed war (everyone will choose) between two European countries, can we see a vision in it? see the subtitle of Act III: “Le fratricide”.
What a visionary look Enki BILAL had through his committed comic strips dealing with future societies between progressivism and authoritarianism, in particular the 1994 effigy, which is the front of the INONU album cover and which, originally, was intended for Amnesty International, it must be underlined with respect.
What a visionary and daring look Rotorelief had, making the obvious connection between the sound and script concept of the group with the reality / fiction of Enki BILAL.
A few years before the pandemic and the chaos, two themes emerge: masked face, muzzled speech.
In conclusion, does history always repeat itself? INONU was just a reflection of real facts past, present... and now... to come? Everyone will judge.
