Above all, CrossFire is a sound. The sound of two voices, air and earth combined, Allison Mareek’s eerie highs and Etienne Prieuret’s raw and rugged depths. The sound of two elements that blend into each other with an ease so great it makes them one, a warm and wrapping sound that transports the listener to the folk, rock and blues horizons of Americana.
Synopsis
CrossFire’s album « Drifting Ashore » refers to travel, exploration and to a universe where musical genres mingle and merge. With sounds bearing committed content and lyrics, the band pictures a troubled world in which the minorities’ problems and segregation take a very important part. The single « Buffalo », telling the tragic Native American tale, « Hard As They Try » singing through the voices of slaves in the south of the United States, summing it up with the electric and haunted cover of Bob Dylan’s « Masters Of War ». All make of this album a direct parabola where the injustice of the past and those of today’s world are but one; with, as culmination point, the song « Empty Minds & Prayers », written following the terror attacks on Paris and the world in 2015.
In addition to that, « Drifting Ashore » is also the story of an encounter, an introspection on love, with its disappointments and pains, but also an ode to life itself through the quest of an elusive ideal.