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Traître Câlin is a duo; four armed Janus, originally cradled within antique myths and their immortals: the Mediterranean sea, Corsica. Faint mystery surrounding the band’s name, Judas, the traitor, an embrace with a dagger, the oxymoron never opposed the duo. Partners in music and drinking brothers since always. It’s in 2018 that a first project was conceived. Born from a drunken idea, an ambient microphone, a torn Bible, four synths, literary automatism and an endless love for wickedness. At the beginning was Par Traîtrise, the first EP, evangelically surrealistic, with a chanted voice dancing with the noise, seeking solid ground with analog tones and a macabre writing style, reeking of experimentations. Capernaum partially controlled (often the Beast, instinctively precedes his Master), escorted inevitably with a hangover once finished, to the creation of a first album. XIII EX-VOTOS (13 ex-votos), revives the idea of these marble offerings, these wishes, these ex-votos nailed to the walls of churches. Achieving a fresco composed of 13 different titles, many anti-prayers thrown in the decayed faces of dead deities, who have perished, Thank God, eons ago. A will of steel it takes to walk on divine fatalism, a fuse Nietzsche lit before spiraling down and molding himself into the bland copie of Hybris, that is insanity. Digested long ago, the various musical and literary influences of this duo are here regurgitated, translated by synths who are sometimes ethereal, often