The Minute Hours / Les Heures Secondes

Description

'The Minute Hours / Les Heures Secondes' is the sixth album by Half Asleep. Recorded "at home" with a series of musician friends, 'The Minute Hours | Les Heures Secondes' took more than a decade to come to fruition. It is an ambitious album, broader than its predecessors, more 'multiple' in the paths it takes. However, it still retains the twilight acoustic universe of the Belgian musician, built from her guitar and piano, here traversed by a choir of human voices, brass and agitated reeds, the bow strokes of a textured cello, and suggestions of dissonance. Drawing from film music, classical music, as well as less direct influences such as 80s D.I.Y. post-punk, Brazilian music, and even free jazz, 'The Minute Hours / Les Heures Secondes' seeks strong atmospheres. "Rich and intense, the sumptuous sixth album of an elusive Belgian." --- LES INROCKUPTIBLES ---.