Astrïd
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More orchestrated, more electric, the first album Music for the promises contained, but evolved in a comparatively circumscribed: accompanied by William Pervieux (piano, Rhodes, keyboards, harmonium), music Astrid approached territories crushed before it by Rachel's or Town & Country, for example. & With this new (and double) opus, the band marks its territory by opening all its paradoxically borders. Listening to the last two tracks of CD 2 could induce shortcuts easy: it is in here somewhere between the folk of John Fahey and Talk Talk Color of Spring. But even if paid in common places, we will convene metaphor of open spaces to set this music to minimalism Basic: failure in general improvisations, compositions Astrid stretch into a kaleidoscope of climates, where instrumental vibration patterns associated and dissociate like clouds. Like some ECM record label, it is sometimes by a very eloquent expand the time and live in the silence when other hypnotic passages remind the American minimalists or krautrockers German. The music Astrid is a chamber music intimacy that musical revealed but the room is wide open. By the grace of their votes and their same apparent simplicity, the trio's compositions reflect a sense of space, a attention to the sound that seems inherited from classical composers. Thus, although very cinematic (Astrid has also worked with videographers, choreographers, and three short films Guillaume Paturel), these two discs of coherence are above all timeless. Beyond the influences they place astrid those in line to folk musicians whose music drinks from all the folklore of Elizabethan tradition in Americana, from distant lands. This is a album ends with an improvisation on a psalm of the seventeenth century, and which the Clarinet William Wickel often infuses color oriental. As Colleen Clogs or Thee, Stranded Horse, Astrid made a syncretic folk, and then somewhere utopian music that is a natural convergence of multiple traditions in which it originates.
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