Album released March 10th, 2007, 41″08
Large soundscapes, floating atmospheres and jazz-rock improvisations, with many instruments from various parts of the world (Udu, Koto, Harp, Tablas, Timpani, Nagadas, lots of Guitar and Synths) : this second album is made for fantasy and dreams. Good hearing !
The whole album, Mp3 256kbit, Zip archive, 85 Mo :
The links below give more details about each track and offer to download the tracks separately ; but you can use the little player button on this page to listen to the music :
- Breathes starts with classic harsh bubbles effets fading into a complex repetitive bell sequence in a very classical way. Then comes lush and warm stings pads, like breathes in the music, and after a more rythmic break a synth solo takes place before the bells starts fading away.
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- Light of Lost Summers opens with an electronic soundscape based on campfire sounds with bats lurking around, like in a cold desert of distant memories. A guitar theme is repeated and transposed over these sound effects before percussions start playing a very quick pattern
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- Water Drops begins with three little synth notes and a water drop; a harp starts dialing with his far eastern cousin, the Koto, then other instruments (marimba, timpani and strings) enter slowly the soundscape, introducing an ascending tension for the Udu to plot a fast rythm where water drops punctuate the beats.
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- Caves was orginally as much an experiment with a modular virtual synth than the idea to build a soundscape depicting a voice prisoner in an industrial underworld prison. The experimental effects could have lasted for the whole track, but I finally prefered introducing a tabla rythm pattern and a set of chords for a distorted guitar chorus, just like a flow of bright and quick thoughts in such an hostile environment. It is the only track of this album where human voice can be heard.
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