A Beautiful Cloud, by DON NINO

A Beautiful Cloud

by DON NINO

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1.	A Beautiful Cloud 04:36	lyrics	buy track
A Beautiful Cloud It’s a beautiful cloud alone in the sky alone in the sky Tell me how It could conceal everything everything Tell me how Things were clear It’s a beautiful cloud alone in the sky Tell me how Tell me how It could conceal everything for fucking real It’s a beautiful cloud ‘Lone in the sky Tell me how We could conceal everything for real And maybe we could meet again Right over there Right over there It’s a beautiful cloud ‘lone in the sky
2.	Watching The Skyline 03:49	lyrics	buy track
Watching The Skyline For a while we stay calm Watching the skyline For a while we stay calm Be sure we let them say What they want what they like Be sure it’s not our case If everyone disappears Give it up give it up There’s "nothing to care about" Give it up give it up There’s "nothing to care about" What we’ve left behind us Is just our former life While we’re here Can’t we stay As long as you think we could stay Among what we left To them lovers: "Now give it up give it up" Following our shades in the streets And watching the fucking mess And everything we do Doesn’t make any sense Now give it up give it up What we left To them lovers: "Now give it up give it up"
3.	All Necessary Changes 03:10	lyrics	buy track
All Necessary Changes Hi I don’t think we have ever met before Hi I don’t think we have met before And perhaps we will make All necessary changes Perhaps we’ll meet In another place Oh Could we let our life flow? Faster than it could Faster than it could And know what we are Is all we need And what we are is what we need Do you think we could live together? Do you think we could change forever? Do you think we could lay down for a last time? Hi, I don’t think we have met before.
4.	A Place 04:35	lyrics	buy track
A Place There’s a place where we could all go This place is fine This place is right Could we all fit together there? Underneath the way we live There’s a place where we could go Find it out when it comes There’s a place where we go Now can’t you get it? And now guess what this is about? Cause we all know what this is about And leave a tiny space To the wild animals Between us there’s a little failure Between us There’s a little thing happening in there Do you think we could fit in the same space? Now do you think we could all fit in the same house? We probably are All alone All alone
5.	Rainbow 03:40	lyrics	buy track
Rainbow All my friends are going out to see the rainbow Hey clap your hands, forget your sorrow Now change your mind Forget your screen, cause everything is fucking unreal You know By heart You wanna find a rainbow Your eyes are closed under your pillow And things have changed outside, do you know? Is this the friend you used to follow? I miss nothing at all but our conversations All my friends are going out to see the weirdo Hey clap your hands, forget your sorrow Now change your mind Forget your screen, cause nothing seems funny and real « Things have changed » All of a sudden « Things have changed, my friend And now my friends are meeting someone they know They probably talk about what they saw The empty streets Through their windows And that’s for sure Nothing at all « Things have changed » All of a sudden « Things have changed, my friend »
6.	Fascinating Times 04:48	lyrics	buy track
Fascinating times Fascinating times Tell me this I don’t know yet Fascinating times Tell me this Oh we dare we dare it all Oh we spare we spare it all Can we change everything we know? Can we spare everything we love? Tell me why no one is old anymore We don’t think it’s right. Cause we don’t think it’s right.
7.	By The Fence 04:08	lyrics	buy track
By The Fence Oh There is something We can talk about By the fence there is a tree I know By heart It gives me fruits and joy All year long We’re left for good We’re made for joy Oh Please understrand me Put the colored carpet here Let’s put our clothes away From here The treat is beautiful And it’s coming up And it’s coming up What we love is coming up We’re left for good We’re made for joy We’re left for good We’re made for joy We’re left for good We’re made for joy
8.	A Ride 03:25	lyrics	buy track
A Ride We’re going out for a ride in the wilderness We’re going out for a ride in the wilderness We’re going out for a ride in the wilderness We’re going out for a ride in the wilderness Take me out for a ride in the wilderness Take me out for a ride in the wilderness Now take me out for a ride in the wilderness Now take me out for a ride in the wilderness He’s going out for a ride in the wilderness He’s going out for a ride in the wilderness He’s going out for a ride in the wilderness He’s going out for a ride in the wilderness He’s going out for a ride in the wilderness He’s going out for a ride in the wilderness He’s going out for a ride in the wilderness Let’s take a ride in the wilderness Let’s take a ride in the wilderness Let’s take a ride in the wilderness Let’s take a ride in the wilderness Let’s take a ride in the wilderness Let’s take a ride in the wilderness Oh oh
9.	In The Distance 03:30	lyrics	buy track
In the distance All things were clear Shinging in the distance You take my hand For what it is You take my hand For what it is Long talk is out In the distance Cause I’m breathing out And now You dance with me
10.	Walks 03:42	lyrics	buy track
Walks Turn it out of the sky A fiction is on her mind She walks Turns her face to the sky She walks Turns her face to the sky A fiction is on her mind Turn it out of the sky Turn it out of the sky You’re walkin’

about

A multi-instrumentalist with NLF3 and singer-guitarist in Prohibition, Nicolas Laureau is now back with his alias Don Nino.
On a large multi-coloured wool blanket, he places the elements of his vintage Japanese drumkit, skins turned to the sky, and tunes up his one-of-a-kind Res-O-Glass guitar. The toms start singing and soon basslines, guitar riffs and scraps of lyrics follow. The blanket levitates from the ground and starts to resemble a huge cloud, textured and dreamlike. As the sole captain of this multicoloured vessel, Don Nino is forming something pared down, electric and sensitive, giving birth to ten new tracks. It’s a beautiful cloud / Alone in the sky he sings on the first of them. It's his manifest for a contemplative life, a celebration of the slow, and gives the album its name - A Beautiful Cloud.
In this seventh opus, with its luminous sounds and sense of contrast, introspection evolves into observation, with the questions asked by its author designed as an invitation to leave behind life as it was before. We all know what this is about sings Don Nino on A Place, also hinting at the need for a new destination, a change in how we live. Like the collage of chiselled photos on the album cover, the sound is dense, organic and ethereal. A beatbox and bass, melodious dancing toms, maracas and claps make things groove. The fibreglass guitar emits its arpeggios, chords and drones while the keyboard meanders alongside. Don Nino initially developed this style of guitar to accompany the French-American dancer Yves Musard during a tour of the USA late 2019. Finally, the vocals are placed front and centre - hypnotic, soft or energetic, they reveal minimalist lyrics, sometimes tinged with humour (for example, in the lively Rainbow), like something taken from a personal diary.
Conceived in just four days, a veritable liberation after his confinement in Paris, the album A Beautiful Cloud is both sweet release for its author and a way of evoking the feeling and questions that arose during the extraordinary months recently traversed: "It came as much from a sentimental standpoint - by which I mean being in love in this nightmarish time - as the need to extricate myself from the hubbub of the city and the modern world, and be in harmony with the ebb and flow of a more sedate, contemplative life. I initially intended to paint, so writing this album was like a sudden and unexpected blooming, totally invigorating." We are made for joy sings Don Nino in the mantra-like By The Fence. And after a spell in the wild wild world, there comes a dance. An album for which all's well that ends well.

credits

released September 10, 2021

All songs written and performed by Nicolas Laureau. Artwork by Nicolas Laureau. Mixed with Fabrice Laureau, may 2021.

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Created in 1995 by brothers Nicolas & Fabrice Laureau, from the band Prohibition. After being a very DIY entity, the label became a way to give to artists with similar state of mind, the opportunity to release their music worldwide.

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