Bleu

Description

After the first self-titled album ("Ann O’aro"), an album centered around intimacy and family violence, and the second ("Longoz"), which propelled her trio (Teddy Doris on trombone, Bino Waro on percussion), here is "BLEU," the third opus by Ann O’aro, who plays the piano here to accompany her singing. The maloya from the island of Réunion continues to breathe outside the beaten paths with the arrival of Brice Nauroy, a fourth musician who brings the sound with his "machines." For Ann O’aro: "The quartet sketches ports, sacks of rice on the bridges, cockroaches and privateers caught in engravings where blood is left to its sole quality as fluid. Ostinato and drones beneath the piercing song cutting through the mist and the backwash of a treacherous sea, pianistic echoes reminiscent of a music box, strident trombone, shards of metal and cries of boiling iron along the continuous staccato of the pikér, nighttime gossip and latency, revocable and restored harmony. Landscapes gnawed at by the fever of nothingness, nostalgia for blue childhood arguing the dry branches of the trees of terror in the white cotton."