Misfit

After a masterly first album, « I was a rabbit ( and i won) », released in 2004 by Another Record, Dana Hilliot is back with a new collection of tracks that are still personal, singular and moving, composed and recorded on the spur of the moment, panic-stricken by recent anecdotes. With arrangements on piano and voice by Delpine Dora on most of the tracks, one also finds what had made the man’s reputation: minimalist songs on acoustic guitar in which one also enconters pastoral flute, the symbol of his taste for wildlife.
The weight of memories, the despair of clumsiness and hints of hope are here transcended by fresh arrangements and honest, haunted interpretation, devoid of ceremonial, the blood of existence. In this new album entitled “Misfit”, Dana Hilliot (always with his friends) unveils even more, leaves all sense of decency behind and unblushingly gives away unreciprocal love stories (“Song for L” in two versions, opening and closing the album, with a participation of Valérie Leclercq aka Half Asleep), unsettling encounters (“Five years after”), hardly blameless acknowledgements (“Looking for a prostitute”, “My first boyfriend”), guilty teenage daydreaming with a proletarian background (“Lovers in the wood”) and so many other things....