Monolythe

Description

It was Africa that first introduced young Octave Noire to music. And for good reason, he lived the first ten years of his life in Côte d'Ivoire. Naturally, his music long drew from this source, until *Néon*, a critically acclaimed debut album with which Patrick Moriceau, a.k.a. Octave Noire, can be proud to have helped broaden the horizons of local music, bridging vintage electronic and pop song. Released in 2017, the specialized press and curious listeners discovered in the artist an expansive and powerful music, conducive to conveying a cinematic imagination. He returns in 2020 with his new album *Monolithe* and continues to expand the horizons of French electronic and dreamlike pop. The songwriting deepens the pop-orchestral furrow of *Néon*, in the lineage of great French arrangers, from Jean-Claude Vannier to François de Roubaix. The architectural demandingness and simple melodies, set against an electronic and cinematic blend, carry his deep, velvety voice. If *Monolithe* borders on melancholy, it never loses a solar timelessness, an epic beauty that sublimes our doubts.