H-Burns (FR)

For the past two decades, H-Burns, the stage name of French songwriter Renaud Brus- tlein has built a body of work where phantoms and reality collide. While his early re- cords carried the promise of the American Dream, his new album, Desert Days, stands as the manifesto of a more lucid outlook, populated by ghosts. Yet H-Burns no longer walks in the footsteps of his heroes; he inhabits his own landscape, somewhere between Romans-sur-Isère, Laurel Canyon, and the most intimate territories of human ambiva- lence. Light and shade.