Euphonic Alliances Ltd – Peace Is It In You?

When two artists converge, it often happens by intention. But when their meeting feels inevitable, you sense something deeper. Euphonic Alliances Ltd., the collaboration between Désiré Bonaventure (Rue des Garderies) and Vincent Ferrari (Così e Così), carries exactly this sense of quiet inevitability.

Their upcoming release on Femacosmé, Peace Is It In You? (out 21 November 2025), unfolds as a four-part exploration where ambient textures meet breakbeats, and house structures dissolve into open space. Each version — Original, Instrumental, Acapella, Dub — traces a different contour of the same emotional terrain, shifting from form to shadow, from definition to suggestion.

The EP poses a question that feels less rhetorical than experiential: Where does peace reside when sound becomes the landscape itself? With Euphonic Alliances Ltd., peace isn’t a destination — it’s a shifting terrain the listener moves through.

We spoke with Euphonic Alliances Ltd. on the occasion of the release of Peace Is It In You?, diving into the process, the questions, and the shared instincts behind the EP.

 

 

 

You both come from distinct yet overlapping musical paths. Désiré (Rue des Garderies) and Vincent (Così e Così), in what early moment did you realize your sound-worlds could merge rather than merely run parallel?

We were already touring together, but performing our separate projects, when our music merged, inevitably. As we spent many days and nights together, we ended up jamming together, and so that was all natural. But also, it probably has more to do with meeting at the lone Missing Numero Festival in 2016 and becoming fast friends, sharing rum & whiskey and roofs to sleep under, and simply spending time together intimately.

 

Peace Is It In You? carries a dual sense of place and placelessness — a coastline you’ve never set foot on, yet know instinctively. Describe the first draft of the title track: where were you, what was the light like, which sound arrived first?

The sound arrived first from Désiré’s sampler; recycled samples that he was playing back one night in our room that we shared in the squat we were living. The light was definitely dim, and the room very smokey. Così “sang” along with maximum delay, barely uttering this word… peace… since we didn’t feel much of it.

 

The decision to issue four versions (Original / Instrumental / Acapella / Dub) suggests you want listeners to choose their own access point rather than simply consume. How did this influence your production process (for example: did you begin with the Acapella, then build backwards?)

We don’t know if it was really a decision to issue four versions, at first… It was more that we couldn’t finish the song, and that it was just music that we kept performing live, and it was different with each performance. When we tried recording none of them matched that live tangibility. So alas, at some point, while trying to finish this cursed song, Raphael from Femacosmé wanted to release the instrumental, which was out of the question since it wasn’t an instrumental track. So, in the end we just released a handful of mixes and versions, like Disco/House/Techno EPs of the 80’s/90’s.

 

I hear both “evolved breakbeat” and “found ambient moment” in the textures. How did you balance digital precision (sequenced drums) with tactile analog mess (field recordings, textures) in this project?

Beats us. Either luck, or, perhaps, sometimes, magic, or psychic magick, somehow happens. Depends what you believe.

 

Femacosmé defines itself as “a house without walls, designed to reveal enchantments and diverse worlds”. How did the label’s ethos shape or amplify the identity of the EP?

Well, it shaped the tracklisting and having different versions released, but for the sound and the sounds that make up each track it didn’t shape or amplify, as we already recorded most of these parts before the label was involved. But yes, the mixes was completed after, so perhaps it did shape it in some way.

 

The title Peace Is It In You? is both direct and interrogative. Are you offering peace, seeking peace, or mapping its impossibility in 2025?

We don’t know, we ask the same.

 

If this EP had a geographical form (a room, a coast, a floating city), what would it be — and why?

It’s geographical form is maybe defined more by the listeners than us.

 

Collaboration often reveals parts of yourself you didn’t know existed. What did each of you discover about your individual practice through making this EP together?

Yes, it reveals a lot, and we are still processing these things, like wanting to spend even more time alone.

 

For a listener pressing play for the first time, what state of mind do you hope they are in — and what state do you hope you leave them in?

We hope they are in a state of peace, and we hope we leave them in a state of peace, but we highly doubt that either is totally possible.

 

Looking ahead: do you see Euphonic Alliances Ltd. as a one-off meeting or a long-term vehicle for shared experiments? If the latter, what shape might the next chapter take (format, mood, collaborators)?

It already is a long-term vehicle as we have been performing together since 2017, and we imagine in the future we will continue to see each other and spend time, so inevitably some music will happen, but as for products and recorded material we don’t foresee anything. Since when we started it was about performing live-in-the-present-moment, and we are not eager to do this recording process at this time, which is quickly passing. We are satisfied with our album Live In Ancient Flesh, which already offers an image of what our music is.

https://euphonic-recordings.bandcamp.com/album/live-in-ancient-flesh

https://noexist4vr.bandcamp.com/album/live-in-ancient-flesh

 

In one sonic artefact from the sessions (a sample, a vocal take, a failed rhythm) there is something that still haunts you. What is it — and why?

Peace.

 

Peace Is It In You? is now available on Bandcamp in both vinyl and digital formats. Check it out!