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The Great Depression

by Doctor L

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Emergency 06:16
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In the Words 05:35
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Disapointed 05:36
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Misery 06:04
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As a committed sound activist for the past twenty-five years, DOCTOR L moves through musical galaxies like an incandescent comet, ceaselessly fusing. From 80s punk rock to hip hop (with French crew Assassin*), from the start of electronica to the rebirth of international afro-beat...

In 2000 – already on the label Comet Records – he managed to bring Lagos´ afro-beat into the third millennium with album “Black Voices” by Tony Allen, and even send it orbiting around the moon with record Psyco on Da Bus.

For the past ten years, Doctor L has been pursuing his vision of a protean kind of music, bringing together the past, present and future in a resounding Big Bang. For the past ten years and in order to meet this mad challenge, Doctor L has been making music continuously in his home studio in Saint Ouen (Paris) and collaborated with many artists from around the world: New York, Paris, London, Lagos, Berlin, Bamako, Marseille...
The whole wide world has visited the second floor of his extravagant HQ to set off for a cosmic elsewhere. Like a painter or sculptor, Doctor L sees this artistic centre as a workshop, where human, audio and graphic stories come to life. The Great Depression is the first piece of a trilogy of meticulously crafted records, a sepia and psychedelic snapshot of a decade spent meeting people, as illustrated by the album cover, which was also devised and designed by Doctor L. From one track to the next, he switches from electric guitar, percussions and synths to bass guitar. And he is also the brains behind the artwork, photographs, videos and so on.

Completely self-taught, Doctor L aka Liam Farrell is a conceptual DIYer, a predator for references, a trans-continental DJ and, in short, a complete artist. The second born to a family of boys, he is the son of an Irish libertarian painter and a British art critic. Born in Dublin in 1968, he grew up between France (where his family had emigrated) and Ireland, a country at the heart of the notion of resistance. "Ireland is the only European country to have had a contemporary experience of colonisation, of assimilation” he insists, claiming that this was what initially drove him to black-American culture, and later African music: common symbolic and meaningful roots.

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released May 15, 2013

p&c 2011 Planet Woo/Comet Records

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Doctor L Paris, France

Liam Farrell, aka Doctor L, born Irish, raised Parisian, is a musician, composer and producer with an impressive score sheet that includes Assassin, FFF, Psycho on Da Bus, Tony Allen, Mbongwana Star, Babani Koné, Nneka, Les Amazones d’Afrique…

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