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cd -- selection APRIL 2006 |
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| Artist: |
RAMONA
CORDOVA |
| Title: |
The boy
who floated freely |
| Label: |
CLAPPING
MUSIC (US) |
| Format: |
CD |
| Price: |
15,5 € |
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The Boy Who Floated Freely is one of these unique crossovers
that create and assemble their own musical forms : neither
child music, nor a fairy tale, neither Folk, nor gipsy music,
but rather all of it in one. The most striking side of this
music is that inhabited by a secret and unfathomable part
of the soul. Ramon is neither Ella Jenkins, nor Marc Bolan,
neither Joanna Newsom, nor Ivor Cutler, neither José
Afonso, nor Robert Wyatt, but shares the same ability to create
a world in which no one has ever lived before. Unique. Raw.
Recommended. |
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| Artist: |
SIX ORGANS
OF ADMITTANCE |
| Title: |
The Sun
Awakens |
| Label: |
DRAG CITY |
| Format: |
CD |
| Price: |
19,5€ |
| Catalog #: |
DC 312CD |
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"Listening to The Sun Awakens back-to-back with its predecessor
will provoke a different response. There's a few treats, sure.
As a matter of fact, it's all treats to our ears. But it's
not all happy beans, just so you know. As a matter of fact,
it's the darkest Six Organs of Admittance yet. In addition
to titling songs cheerless things like 'Black Wall,' and 'Torn
by Wolves,' Ben's brought a bit more electric guitar into
the mix to help bring out the darkness. Tim Green is behind
the board making sure that everything sounds rock-solid, and
the acoustics are brilliant, almost blinding. Side one is
a six-song circle where waves of guitars build and beauty
is betrayed by madness...in the prettiest possible way. Side
two is a trip down the droning 'River of Transfiguration.'
The inspiration here is Hermann Nitsch. You might hear Popul
Vuh as an influence too, as well as Hapshash and the Coloured
Coat. Overall though, Six Organs of Admittance doesn't believe
in the critical myth that an artist who flirts with the obscure
needs to consolidate their experimental tendencies into more
and more listenable music in order to expand the envelope
of what pop music can be. He don't believe in a linear aesthetic
trajectory either." |
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| Artist: |
THOMAS
MERY |
| Title: |
A SHIP,
LIKE A GHOST, LIKE A CELL |
| Label: |
DORA DOROVITCH |
| Format: |
CD |
| Price: |
15,5€ |
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Pour son premier album
solo, le talentueux Thomas Mery, instigateur de certains des
projets les plus intéressants de la scène indie
française (Purr, Téléfax), a choisi de
donner un folk dépouillé et sensible, qu’il
crée avec une guitare sèche et un chant à
fleur de peau, mettant à nu des bribes d’intimité
dans des textes ombrageux. Cependant, s’il en vient
à une formule essentiellement acoustique, le musicien
a derrière lui plusieurs années de recherche
sonore électro-acoustique, comme en témoignait
en 2003 le vinyle à tirage limité I Matter.
On peut donc supposer que ce disque, composé et produit
par Thomas Mery lui-même, est le reflet voulu d’une
aspiration à une sobriété et une simplicité
que semble porter le souci vibrant d’intimité
et d’introspection.
A peine réhaussées de quelques notes de piano
ou de mélodica, de quelques sons électroniques,
nappes grésillantes ou samples de voix, la musique
de A ship, like a ghost, like a cell s’offre sur le
ton d’une confidence douloureuse. Juste de voix, elle
laisse libre cours aux émotions qui la traversent,
sans que nous ne ressentions d’impudeur dans la démarche.
On pourrait citer Shaping Places, Real Shift ou The This That,
qui trouvent en nous un écho puissant. Mais c’est
l’ensemble du disque qui, porté par le chant
frémissant de Thomas, au diapason des arpèges
retenus ou tendus de sa six-cordes, nous touche profondément.
A ship, like a ghost, like a cell nous aide à nous
frayer à pas feutrés un passage parmi les ombres
( Infratunes)
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| Artist: |
GROUPER |
| Title: |
Way Their Crept |
| Label: |
FREE PORCUPINE SOCIETY |
| Format: |
CD |
| Price: |
16,5E |
| Catalog #: |
FPS 014CD |
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"Way Their Crept is a beautiful and haunting release of processed vocals, keyboards and guitar recorded by Liz Harris in Oakland, California. Melodic and emotive elements create a complex contrast of grit and grain that Harris shares with fellow Oakland free-noise musicians Tom Carter and Xiu Xiu. Her music parallels the spiritual, meditative bent of guitarist Christina Carter while giving the breezy ambience of Brian Eno and Harold Budd a noisier, more brittle presence. Like an imagined ode to Throbbing Gristle by Arvo Pärt, Way Their Crept sounds like a choir of ghosts recorded a hundred years ago. Doppelgangers, phantoms and black holes emerge from countless layers of tonal and vocal arrangements and weave through the swirling fog of tape hiss and distortion." |
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