THE DREAMER (2 vinyls)

Description

IN THE HEART OF THE NIGHT, “THE DREAMER” LETS US HEAR THE INFLUENCES OF BEAK, MATMOS, PATRICK WATSON, CHET BAKER OR ENNIO MORRICONE. Like TILT, its predecessor, “The Dreamer” is built around instrumental tracks with progressive forms that move forward and never look back, but this time also around songs that lead us through the acoustic vertigo of the intoxication of a full-moon party by the edge of a beach, before plunging into the electrifying phantasmagoria of an imaginary and elusive love. Joce Mienniel wanted this album to be as acoustic as it is electric, as fragile as it is brutal, as muted as it is metallic, and built it as an immersive sonic journey playing on auditory persistence. “THE FORMER FLUTIST OF THE ONJ TAKES THE LEAD OF AN EXCITING QUARTET.” --- MATHIEU DURAND - JAZZ NEWS---. “A new electrifying and deeply poetic album inspired by dreams, ‘The Dreamer’. The extraordinary flutist, singer and composer displays the full scope of his creativity here, exploring rare musical territories and pure, saturated aesthetics. A total immersion in a captivating sonic universe.” --- JAZZ MAGAZINE ---. After the black and even, like the paintings of Pierre Soulages, the outrenoir of TILT, the first album by this quartet in which the music revealed an infinity of details in this color to the point of revealing a greater luminosity, THE DREAMER chooses a light this time that is more polychromatic and more incandescent for this new album. Inspired by several dreams, each track, whether sung or instrumental, tells here the dreamlike swirls of a full-moon night, or the phantasmagoria of an imaginary love, and passes through the chromatic movements of baroque and progressive music. It is a true soundtrack to an imaginary film taking us on a journey through the deep blue night. Electronic, acoustic, electric language, the sound of this orchestra is an immersion in sound all on its own. The poetry of the lyrics and the orchestration of the voices blend with the textures of the organ and the piano played with a mute to make the whole even more mysterious. The power and sharpness of the flute and drums, combined with the saturated accents of the electric guitar, awaken and challenge this deep-night atmosphere. The taste for discovery is about broadening one’s musical influences and exploring numerous extended techniques on the flute and other instruments to combine them with electronic, progressive rock and minimalist culture. Constantly collaborating with artists from around the world coming from very diverse musical cultures, this group has assimilated a synthesis language all its own, to convey an urban musical landscape, a poetic, dreamlike and mysterious world, a universe of trance often close to tribal music.