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New Year's Crazy Egos

from The Pleasure Is Goldmine EP by Olivier Rocabois

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    As the pleasure is goldmine, the picture that adorns the cover of the brand new EP could have been taken in Morocco in 1967. But it didn't happen that way. The legendary French photographer Renaud Monfourny snapped it on one glorious spring day of the roaring 2020s, in the midday sun, somewhere in the heart of Paris (Saint Paul!). Then Pascal Blua (the renowned graphic designer who's been working with Rocabois for 4 years now) imagined this James Bond-like cover art. Three new songs, one shaman-like chant, a brilliant recreation by Le SuperHomard AND the printed lyrics: so many good reasons to surrender to The Pleasure Is Goldmine EP on CD!

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Written, composed, arranged & produced by Rocabois
Jan Stümke (Schimmel upright piano)
Guillaume Glain (drums & percussions)
Laurent Saligault (bass)
François Dorléans (electric guitar)
Dottore Roccabosco (lead & backing vocals, acoustic & electric guitar, upright piano, various synthesizers, redrums)

lyrics

Childhood is a foreign country
And I’m glad I still have my passport
You should expect the return of the mid-afternoon
Mystic Men
They used to congregate
Every Friday
Never to be seen again

Where were their fathers?
Where were their brothers?
They all went missing
Some of them were loved by their mothers, their wives, their sisters
But the kids they don’t live here anymore
2000 miles from home
They speak another tongue

Flags are flying
It’s raining crowns
What a lovely ride we had
Crazy egos
Hung up on a dream
That very same dream

Childhood is a foreign country
And I’m glad I still have my parents
The mystic men would be chanting and getting high
Little did they know they were meant to love each other
You should explain why he took his own life
Instead of becoming
The finest rock’n’roll star

I lie awake
Staring at the stars
While you're looking at me
I dissolve into your eyes
Crazy egos who come to blows
They’re so full of themselves
Because we’re hung up on the same dream
We share the very same sadness weakness loneliness

Time is a friend of mine
Flags are flying it’s raining crowns what a lovely crowd you are!
Crazy egos about to blow they’re so full of themselves
Because we’re hung up on the same dream
We share the very same shyness sweetness loneliness

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from The Pleasure Is Goldmine EP, released June 3, 2022

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Olivier Rocabois Paris, France

ALL IF was an indie pop creature invented in Paris in 2008 by Olivier Rocabois who decided to go solo in 2019.

Raised on cult albums ("Ram" by McCartney, "Giant Steps" by the Boo Radleys), Rocabois developed an eclectic taste for the refined and the organic. ... more

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